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1. reneelung
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   I have having trouble querying posts using parameters passed in the URL.

   I have two custom post types I am connecting reciprocally, Athletes and Sports. For testing, I print out 1) the actual Sport ID, 2) the title and IDs of the athletes that are connected to that sport. This is done using the code:

   $athletes_query = new WP_Query(array('post_type' => 'athletes', 'connected_to' => get_queried_object_id()));
       echo get_queried_object_id();
       echo $post->ID;
       echo "<br/>";
       foreach ($athletes_query->posts as $athlete) {
           echo $athlete->post_name."-";
           echo $athlete->ID.", ";
       }

   However, when I try to perform the same query via URL (for this example, the sport I'm looking at has a post ID of 87),
   http://mysite.com/?post_type=athletes&connected_to=87
   I am given all the athletes, not just the ones I connected to the sport.

   What am I doing wrong here?

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posts-to-posts/

2. scribu
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   For query variables to be used directly from the URL, they need to be registered, like so:

   function make_p2p_qv_public() {
       global $wp;
   
       $wp->add_query_var( 'connected_to' );
   }
   
   add_action( 'init', 'make_p2p_qv_public' );

3. reneelung
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Thanks for getting back to me so quickly!

   I tried your snippet, but it didn't seem to work. I inserted it into my functions.php file, logged out and logged back in just be sure, but I'm still getting all the athletes.

   I also tried the query_vars hook, but that didn't seem to work either.
   

   function add_p2p_qv ($public_query_vars) {
       $public_query_vars[] = 'connected_to';
       return $public_query_vars;
   }
   
   add_action( 'query_vars', 'add_p2p_qv' );

   People seem to think a parse_request filter is also needed, but I'm not familiar enough with hooks and filters to tell.

   Any suggestions?

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