Query multiple custom post types in single loop

  • Resolved rjpinney

    (@rjpinney)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    Hello,

    I’m aware there a few other threads on this topic but I’m afraid I can’t make any sense of them, so apologies for the duplication.

    I have three custom post types running, in addition to ‘posts’. I want to run a loop that pulls all posts categorised under a particular category (bulletin), but I can only get it query a single post type.

    This is the code I have, which works for one, but I’ve not managed to successfully adapt it to query more than one post type.

    <?php query_posts('post_type=post&cat=3&showposts=5'); ?>
		<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

		<div class="post_type">
		<?php if ( 'post' == get_post_type()  ) : ?>FEATURE<?php endif; ?>
		<?php if ( 'report' == get_post_type()  ) : ?>REPORT<?php endif; ?>
		<?php if ( 'opinion' == get_post_type()  ) : ?>OPINION<?php endif; ?>
		<?php if ( 'bookmark' == get_post_type()  ) : ?>BOOKMARK<?php endif; ?>
		</div>

		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?> "><?php the_title(); ?></a>

		<div class="excerpt">
		<?php echo get_the_excerpt(); ?>
		</div>

		<?php endwhile; ?>

    Any help would be much appreciated!

    Thanks

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  • wspencer

    (@wspencer)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Just change the query_posts parameters a bit….

    query_posts( array(
     'post_type' => array( 'post', 'report', 'opinion', bookmark' ),
     'cat' => 3,
     'showposts' => 5 )
     );

    That should take care of it for you.

    Thread Starter rjpinney

    (@rjpinney)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks wspencer, I’ve tried changing at as you suggest but I’m afraid it just crashes the page – no doubt because I haven’t put it in quite right. This is what I now have, incorporating the code you provided above:

    <?php query_posts( array(
     'post_type' => array( 'post', 'report', 'opinion', bookmark' ),
     'cat' => 3,
     'showposts' => 5 )
     ); ?>
		<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

		<div class="post_type">
		<?php if ( 'post' == get_post_type()  ) : ?>FEATURE<?php endif; ?>
		<?php if ( 'report' == get_post_type()  ) : ?>REPORT<?php endif; ?>
		<?php if ( 'opinion' == get_post_type()  ) : ?>OPINION<?php endif; ?>
		<?php if ( 'bookmark' == get_post_type()  ) : ?>BOOKMARK<?php endif; ?>
		</div>

		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?> "><?php the_title(); ?></a>

		<div class="excerpt">
		<?php echo get_the_excerpt(); ?>
		</div>

		<?php endwhile; ?>
    Thread Starter rjpinney

    (@rjpinney)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Does anyone have any suggestions for this? I’m still stuck. Thanks!

    jcrea

    (@jcrea)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Looks like you left out a ‘ in your query in front of bookmark

    Thread Starter rjpinney

    (@rjpinney)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Very well spotted, that was precisely the problem!

    Thanks!

    benarobinson

    (@benarobinson)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I just went through figuring this out, and ended up doing this instead: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/pre_get_posts

    WordPress recommends it over query_posts() for loading time, and it definitely worked better for me. I’m using Infinite Scroll, which was having problems getting the posts when I used query_posts(), but works perfectly when I filter it as they describe with pre_get_posts(). Plus, this is a little cleaner since it’s off in the functions.php file (or even in an included additional functions file!) so you don’t have to clutter up your front end files.

    benarobinson

    (@benarobinson)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Sorry, that was misleading, “pre_get_posts” is not a function. Here’s the format:

    <?php add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'your_function_name' ); ?>

    your_function_name() then goes to define which posts/post types are queried where, etc.

    I’d like to say again that this method worked great for me in combining the custom posts and normal posts into the same query.

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