Title: query_posts() broken in WordPress 2.5? Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # query_posts() broken in WordPress 2.5? * [Jeffrey Barke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffreyb/) * (@jeffreyb) * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query_posts-broken-in-wordpress-25/) * Just finished upgrading two sites to WordPress 2.5 and everything went quite smooth (or so I thought). On reviewing the site, I noticed that all templates where I used `query_posts` were broken. * This used to work: `query_posts('showposts=5&author=10');` `if (have_posts()):`` while ($my_query->have_posts()):` `endwhile;` `endif;` * Now it doesn’t. I’ve been messing around with `$wp_query` and `WP_QUERY` all morning, but no luck. * Any ideas? Is it my code? If so, what should I be doing? * Thanks. Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/) * (@filosofo) * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query_posts-broken-in-wordpress-25/#post-733531) * There is no global object in WordPress named `$my_query`, and there never has been. * Perhaps you used to do something like * ``` $my_query = query_posts('showposts=5&author=10'); ``` * That might make sense, but it seems unnecessary to perform the WP “Loop”. * Thread Starter [Jeffrey Barke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffreyb/) * (@jeffreyb) * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query_posts-broken-in-wordpress-25/#post-733657) * Thanks filosofo; that’s my fault. Some of the code I posted earlier was wrong and I may not have been explicit enough about my problem. * Prior to upgrading from WordPress 2.0.9 to 2.5, the following page displayed all the posts I’ve ever written. After the upgrade, it only shows five of my posts. [http://themechanism.com/blog/author/jeffreybarke/](http://themechanism.com/blog/author/jeffreybarke/) * Here’s the actual code on the page: * ``` ID); if (have_posts()) : ?> ``` * The code did not change, but its behavior did. Do you know why? * Thanks. * [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/) * (@filosofo) * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query_posts-broken-in-wordpress-25/#post-733667) * I don’t know why it doesn’t work for you; the same code for me works just fine. * You could either use the [`next_posts_link`](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/next_posts_link) and `previous_posts_link` template tags within the while loop, to generate page links, or you could specify a really large number of posts to show instead of- 1. * Thread Starter [Jeffrey Barke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffreyb/) * (@jeffreyb) * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query_posts-broken-in-wordpress-25/#post-733693) * Unfortunately, none of the parameters work. `showposts=-1`, `showposts=1`, `showposts =5`, and `showposts=100` all return the same thing: five posts. * I’m going to test the `query_posts()` function on other blogs I’ve upgraded to 2.5 and see if it works correctly there (I assume it will). * Thanks for the suggestions, though! * Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/) * (@otto42) * WordPress.org Admin * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query_posts-broken-in-wordpress-25/#post-733699) * > _Unfortunately, none of the parameters work. showposts=-1, showposts=1, showposts > =5, and showposts=100 all return the same thing: five posts._ * Then I’d say that you have something else overriding it somewhere else, because query_posts() works fine for me. * Thread Starter [Jeffrey Barke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffreyb/) * (@jeffreyb) * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query_posts-broken-in-wordpress-25/#post-733702) * You’re correct, Otto42. Sorry for the time, everyone, but thanks for looking into this. * The problem was, of course, a plugin. Post-upgrade, I enabled the plugins one- by-one while refreshing the homepage; everything seemed to be working fine. I missed the fact that one of them messed with the query since no errors were thrown and the misbehavior is only evident on certain pages. * The plugin in question was Adhesive. * Thanks, Jeffrey * [Dgold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgold/) * (@dgold) * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query_posts-broken-in-wordpress-25/#post-733810) * WP 2.6 with the plugin WP-Sticky 1.31 (a plugin by Gamerz which replaces Adhesive), has the same negative effect of messing up my custom query_posts arguments. * In my case I had a page which was an alphabetical index of all my post titles. I have query_posts with orderby=title & sortposts=-1 (which means sort them alphabetically and show all) * I noticed it stopped working and researched several possibilities before I found this thread. This saved me some headache. Thanks. * [warisover1981](https://wordpress.org/support/users/warisover1981/) * (@warisover1981) * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query_posts-broken-in-wordpress-25/#post-733825) * try this, it works for me 🙂 [http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/tag/query_posts/](http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/tag/query_posts/) * [jberghem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jberghem/) * (@jberghem) * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query_posts-broken-in-wordpress-25/#post-733826) * Did you delete the wp-admin and wp-includes folders when you upgraded or did you overwrite them? 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