Misbehahiour in get_posts’ category exclude behaviour?

  • wpseek

    (@alphawolf)


    17 years, 7 months ago

    Hey folks,

    I am about to recode my little Archive plugin, and so changed the way to exclude categories in my code. I am using get_posts and the category parameter to exclude certain cat ids (category=-1,-2,-3…).

    Now, the Codex sais the following to query_posts:

    There is a proviso however: it will exclude all the posts that belong only to category xxx. If a post belongs to another category as well, it will still be picked up.

    Furthermore, the Codex tells that since WP 2.6 query_posts and get_posts run the same DB query internally, so the quoted should also be working for get_posts. Theoretically.

    But obviously thats not a given. If a post belongs to another category as well, it’s not gonna be picked up.

    Now, is this a misbehaviour in WP, or is the Codex just not telling the fact?

    Regards,
    Oliver

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    I’m thinking the Codex is wrong about that. I used <?php query_posts('cat=-17'); ?> and it excluded ALL posts with category 17, even when the post belonged to multiple categories.

    I will fix that in Codex.
    http://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Template_Tags%2Fquery_posts&diff=62497&oldid=62195

    Thread Starter wpseek

    (@alphawolf)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for your quick response and clarification, MichaelH. Sadly.

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    Does the category_and parameter, in any way, mitigate your sadness?

    Thread Starter wpseek

    (@alphawolf)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    Well, sadly no. In my case I guess I’d have to use
    'category__not_in' => array(3)
    to exclude posts that only belong to category 3. Still it excluded ALL posts with category 3, even when the post belonged to multiple categories.

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    That leaves you with some ugly choices doesn’t it?

    Guess you’ll have to have a query of all posts, then use something like get_categories and test that for posts that just have one category.

    Thread Starter wpseek

    (@alphawolf)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    Well, I do have some workarounds in mind, but those are either performance-killers or a plus of dozens of extra code lines or both.

    But thanks anyways for the clarification on this issue. 🙂

    macarrier_hue

    (@macarrier_hue)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    i have some issues with get_posts($args), $args beeing array(‘category’ => 176) to include all posts from category ID 176.

    apparently, get_posts won’t pick up posts that are children to this category if they’re also child to another. any workaround?

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