"get_posts(array" troubles…

Resolved relaysignal
(@relaysignal)

15 years, 2 months ago

I’m trying to get my Category Template to be able to not only show the posts from that category, but to also show a single post from the ‘featured’ category as well. But it’s not just any post from the featured category, it’s the most recent post that happens to be in both the featured category and the category the page is on. Does that make sense? Here’s my code for the single (Featured + Category) post:

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I’m not real great with php, and I keep getting serrors that I’m missing a bracket, but I can’t see where. Any help? 🙂

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Thread Starter relaysignal
(@relaysignal)

15 years, 2 months ago

Here’s my code: http://wordpress.pastebin.com/C10RdbPh
Michael
(@alchymyth)

15 years, 2 months ago
try to put all arguments into the array; for instance:
```
$news =array(
'category__and' => array(47,3),
'posts_per_page' => 1
);
$my_query = new WP_Query($news);
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
```
Thread Starter relaysignal
(@relaysignal)

15 years, 2 months ago

I fixed the code but I still get a “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’ in …/wp-content/themes/travelertheme/category.php on line 34” error.

Moderator keesiemeijer
(@keesiemeijer)

15 years, 2 months ago

Can we have the full code on the category template?

Thread Starter relaysignal
(@relaysignal)

15 years, 2 months ago

Here it is:

http://wordpress.pastebin.com/A62dJ0ML

Moderator keesiemeijer
(@keesiemeijer)

15 years, 2 months ago

Try it with this: http://wordpress.pastebin.com/nR1sh4VG

I think it needs an endif; before the ‘}’ and thats why it doesn’t work

Michael
(@alchymyth)

15 years, 2 months ago

as far as i know, you can’t interrupt a ‘while’-loop with a closing bracket of an unrelated conditional statement.

the line while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); is common to all queries and need only be inserted once, at the start of the actual loop.

all conditional statements to set the arguments and the query should imho be processed before the start of the loop.

also inserted a ‘wp_reset_query();’ before the second loop, to bring the query back to the original category posts.

for instance:
http://wordpress.pastebin.com/2u0JUn29

(untested)

Thread Starter relaysignal
(@relaysignal)

15 years, 2 months ago

Thank you very much, everyone! The code Alchymyth wrote works like a charm.

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