posts_per_page not working with custom post type

  • Resolved TrishaM

    (@trisham)


    10 years, 7 months ago

    I have a custom post type (deal) set up, with custom taxonomy (deals), and a loop in a template file to display 5 links to posts of that custom post type, but it will only show 2 no matter what I do….here’s my loop:

    <?php global $post;
$today = time('now');
$args = array(
   'post_type' => 'deal',
   'deal_category' => 'deals',
   'posts_per_page' => 5,
   'meta_key' => 'date_end',
   'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
   'order' => 'ASC');

$myposts = get_posts( $args );
foreach ( $myposts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post );

$exp_date = get_post_meta($post->ID,'date_end',true);
$expiration_date = strtotime($exp_date);

if ($expiration_date > $today) {
?>
<li>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
</li>
<?php } endforeach; wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

    I know I have more than two posts in this custom post type with the ‘deals’ category assigned to them, and they are not expired (not past the date_end)…..but I cannot figure out how to make it show more than 2 posts. I even tried “numberposts” instead of “posts_per_page” but that didn’t work.

    This loop is NOT going on a taxonomy page so I don’t think using solutions I’ve found here that others have posted will work as those involved setting a specific number of posts in the functions.php using if_tax()….it’s being used on a page where there are multiple loops already working correctly for other post types.

    Any suggestions?

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  • Thread Starter TrishaM

    (@trisham)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Well. Nevermind. I think I found the problem and it’s with the Advanced Custom Fields plugin.

    I use ACF to add custom meta-boxes for the custom post type, and apparently if you modify the metadata using the ACF-created metaboxes, it does NOT update the database – when I took a peek at the post_meta table using phpMyAdmin, the incorrect data was still there……

    SO I’ll post this bug in the support threads for that plugin.

    jefffassnacht

    (@jefffassnacht)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Hi TrishaM,

    I’m having the same issue. Did you find a workaround?

    Thread Starter TrishaM

    (@trisham)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Hi @jefffassnacht – yes actually I did get this working……..sorry for not posting the solution here, usually I try to do that, but I had started another Post on this issue because it was not really related to the ACF plugin as I had thought in this post…

    So the solution is detailed in my last post here:
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-loop-posts_per_page-not-working?replies=7

    Basically I had to change my loop to not use “foreach” and instead go back to the if/while method of looping through posts…..

    So take a look at that post and if it doesn’t help you send me a message through the Forum or Post here again and I’ll try to help you if I can.

    jefffassnacht

    (@jefffassnacht)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Hi @trisham – Thanks for the update. Here’s another solution I found. Passing the arguments to a custom query variable such as $taxonomy_query instead of the native $query solved my problem. So in the end the code was something like:

    $args = array( [parameters] );
$taxonomy_query = new WP_Query( $args );
while ($taxonomy_query->have_posts()) : $taxonomy_query->the_post();

    instead of:

    $args = array( [parameters] );
$query = new WP_Query( $args );
while (have_posts()) : the_post();

    This gave me control over the posts_per_page again.

    Thread Starter TrishaM

    (@trisham)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    An interesting solution……although I think the actual key is using the ‘while’ statement in the loop versus the ‘foreach’……I played around with a custom query variable and had the same results, so I just simplified it back to the stock $query….but your method works just as well!

    🙂

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