WP Query Help – Posts Per Page

  • Resolved 83creative

    (@winnard)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    I have a query which pulls in a custom post type on my homepage.

    I want to pull in all this certain post type but only display ONE randomly.

    At the moment if I use -1 on posts_per_page it displays them ALL if i set posts_per_page to 1 it only displays 1 post and never changes randomly.

    How can I fix this?

    Here is my query

    $args = array(
'post_type'      => 'milo-books',
'posts_per_page' => 1,
'orderby'	 => 'date',
'order'		 => 'rand'
);
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );

if ($loop->have_posts()): while ($loop->have_posts()) : $loop->the_post();
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  • juggledad

    (@juggledad)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    First, the order option only allows ‘ASC’ or ‘DESC’ and at this point you are telling the request to return the results ordered by date – this means they will always come back in the same order.

    Secondly, the orderby displays the results of teh query in the order that you have chosen. That is important because if you only return one row, it does’t matte what the orderby is.

    I would suggest leaving the ‘posts_per_page’ at -1, get rid of the ‘order’, set ‘orderby’ to rand and then change the while loop to do a ‘break;’ after the $loop->the_post();

    Don’t forget to put the whole while inside brackets since you will have mofe than one PHP statement.

    Thread Starter 83creative

    (@winnard)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Juggledad,

    Thanks very much for getting back to me. I am not 100% sure what you mean by the break after $loop->the_post.

    Could you give me an example? Here is the full query so you can help me a little more.

    <?php
$args = array(
	'post_type' 			=> 'milo-books',
	'posts_per_page' 		=> -1,
	'orderby'			=> 'rand'
	);

$loop = new WP_Query( $args );

if ($loop->have_posts()): while ($loop->have_posts()) : $loop->the_post(); 

	<h2>Featured Title</h2>

	<div class="featured-content-container">
	// Main Content Here
	</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php else: ?>
    <h2>No Book Info Found.</h2>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php wp_reset_postdata();?>
    juggledad

    (@juggledad)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    try this

    <?php
$args = array(
	'post_type' 			=> 'milo-books',
	'posts_per_page' 		=> -1,
	'orderby'			=> 'rand'
	);

$loop = new WP_Query( $args );

if ($loop->have_posts()): while ($loop->have_posts()) {
	$loop->the_post();
	break;
	}

	<h2>Featured Title</h2>

	<div class="featured-content-container">
	// Main Content Here
	</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php else: ?>
    <h2>No Book Info Found.</h2>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php wp_reset_postdata();?>

    Thread Starter 83creative

    (@winnard)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Juggledad,

    Thanks for sending through the code. I am getting an error which says “Unexpected T_ENDWHILE”

    Any ideas?

    Dan

    Thread Starter 83creative

    (@winnard)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    For some reason once I deleted the code you supplied and added back in the original code. It started working.

    Maybe it was the random setting I had wrong.

    Many thanks for the help. I appreciate it.

    juggledad

    (@juggledad)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    I make sure to check it a few times and see if you are getting a random post and not just the same one over and over.

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