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1. gmolo
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I've looked for bugs and support issues. The closest issue I found was this post here.

   I'm working with custom xml-rpc methods and using get_posts as follows:
   

   // construct query
       $params = array(
   	'post_type' => 'page',
        	'numberposts' => $numberposts,
       	'offset' => $offset
       	);
       $posts = get_posts($params);

   The returned value is an array of both posts and pages, though the other parameters work correctly. The resultant value of $posts is unchanged if I switch 'post_type' to => 'post' or omit it entirely (function reference claims to default to 'post').

   I've also tried a single string of args, but no difference:
   get_posts('post_type=post');

   If there's no solutions I'll

2. status4
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hey, did you find a solution?

3. gmolo
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I never found anything that corrected the faulty get_posts(). So I had to create my own workaround:

   This code shows only posts and filters out the pages that incorrectly return from the get_posts() method by continuing to increment the offset until the full count is reached of just posts.

   // construct query
       $params = array(
       	'numberposts' => $numberposts,
       	'offset' => $offset,
       	'post_type' => 'post'    // doesn't work?
       	);
       $posts = get_posts($params);
   
       // filter out pages
       $pageCount = $pages = 0;
       $filteredPosts = array();
       do
       {
           $pageCount = 0;
   	foreach($posts as $p)
   	{
   	    if (strcmp($p->post_type, 'page') == 0)
   	    	++$pageCount;
   	    else
   	    	array_push($filteredPosts, $p);
   	}
   	if ($pageCount != 0)
   	{
   	    $offset += $numberposts;
   	    $numberposts = $pageCount;
   	    $params['numberposts'] = $numberposts;
   	    $params['offset'] = $offset;
   	    $posts = get_posts($params);
   	}
   	$pages += $pageCount;
       } while ($pageCount != 0);
   
       // Final array
       return $filteredPosts;

4. status4
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hey, this is what I am doing at the moment too. But I thought there would be a "better" solution. Thanks anyway for your reply

5. mighty_mt
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   I was just having the same problem with the get_posts function. What I ended up doing is using WP_Query instead, which does exactly what get_posts should be doing as well.

   Here is a simplified version of my code:

   //Setting up the query arguments
   $myArgs = array( 'numberposts' => -1, 'post_type' => 'my_post_type', 'orderby' => 'title', 'order' => 'ASC' );
   //The following line doesen't work
   //$myPages = get_posts( $myArgs );
   //This does the job
   $myQuery = new WP_Query( $myArgs ); 
   
   //Looping through the posts
   while ( $myQuery->have_posts() ) : $myQuery->the_post();
   	echo '<a href="' .  get_permalink() . '" title="' . get_the_title() . '">' . get_the_title() . '</a><br />';
   endwhile;
   
   // Reset Post Data
   wp_reset_postdata();

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