WordPress Loop Question

  • mdumka

    (@mdumka)


    14 years, 11 months ago

    Hello,

    I was wodering if someone could help me with a loop question …

    Now I know that the loop gets all of the latest versions of pages/posts.

    But what If I wanted the loop to get the latest versions based on a custom field value?

    So for example …

    1) Page = ‘About Us’ — Page revision 17 — Custom Field Value = ‘True’

    1) Page = ‘About Us’ — Page revision 18 — Custom Field Value = ‘False’

    I would like the loop to return latest revisons on all pages/posts with a Custom Field Value of ‘True’ meaning page revision 17 would be the page shown, not revision 18.

    Thanks for all of the help …

    Mike

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts

    Thread Starter mdumka

    (@mdumka)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks Esmi …

    But in looking at the database, say I have a page that has 10 revisions. Only one has a post type of ‘page’ and the revisions have a post type of ‘revision’.

    How would the query posts function help solve my problem?

    Thanks

    Mike

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    If you want to display post revisions, yes.

    Thread Starter mdumka

    (@mdumka)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    Ok … so you have to bear with me as all this information is new.

    First I have to place the following before ‘The Loop’

    // The Query
    query_posts( $args );

    Next … I have to supply the arguments or parameters to query_posts(). So based on the fact I want a page or any of its revisions I would use this …

    ‘post_type=any’

    I will wait to muck it up any more until your reply …

    Thanks

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    No – post_type=any won’t work. Have a look at this Codex page for examples of the parameters you can use in query_posts.

    Thread Starter mdumka

    (@mdumka)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    Ok so ‘any’ does not include revisions so do i search for post_type that includes page and revision to make sure i am looking for everything?

    Thread Starter mdumka

    (@mdumka)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    Hi Esmi …

    I have been doing some more research, so I think this is what I need to find all revisions of a page ..

    $query = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => array( 'page', 'revision' ) ) );

    Does that look right?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    That will give you all published Pages and all revisions (posts & pages). Is that what you want?

    Thread Starter mdumka

    (@mdumka)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    Nope …

    Say I have a page ‘About Us’ … I want the page and all of its revisions.

    That’s the 1st part of my Query …

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    I think you’ll need to do that in 2 parts. The first query/loop would be a standard one that pulls in the published page. The second query/loop would be needed for the revisions. Try:

    $args = array (
	'pagename' => 'About Us',
	'post_status' => 'inherit'
);
$rev_query = new WP_Query($args );

    Thread Starter mdumka

    (@mdumka)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    Well now is where is gets tricky …

    The whole reason for this custom loop is so I can work on published pages and posts with out having those changes become instantly live.

    So for example … I would like to limit the query to return 1 row/record or the last page/post with a post_status of ‘published’.

    $args = array (
	'pagename' => 'About Us',
	'post_status' => 'Published',
	'posts_per_page' = 1
);
$rev_query = new WP_Query($args );

    So that query should return the latest published revision of ‘About Us’ … and it should not matter if its a page/post or revision … correct?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    Try:

    $args = array (
	'post_type' => array('any', 'revision');
	'orderby' => 'date'
	'posts_per_page' => 1
);
$query = new WP_Query($args );
    Thread Starter mdumka

    (@mdumka)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    Ok … but what if I have version 9 as published, but version 10 as draft?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    Drafts are covered by ‘any’. Only revisions are excluded from the ‘any’ parameter.

    Thread Starter mdumka

    (@mdumka)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    Ok … Now I completely understand the last query.

    But now in looking at my database … every revision of any page/post other then the published one has a post status of ‘inherit’ if it is not ‘publish’.

    I need to keep a record of the statuses … how do I do that so I can query against it?

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