Title: WordPress Loop Question Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # WordPress Loop Question * [mdumka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdumka/) * (@mdumka) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-loop-question/) * Hello, * I was wodering if someone could help me with a loop question … * Now I know that the loop gets all of the latest versions of pages/posts. * But what If I wanted the loop to get the latest versions based on a custom field value? * So for example … * 1) Page = ‘About Us’ — Page revision 17 — Custom Field Value = ‘True’ * 1) Page = ‘About Us’ — Page revision 18 — Custom Field Value = ‘False’ * I would like the loop to return latest revisons on all pages/posts with a Custom Field Value of ‘True’ meaning page revision 17 would be the page shown, not revision 18. * Thanks for all of the help … * Mike Viewing 11 replies - 16 through 26 (of 26 total) [←](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-loop-question/?output_format=md) [1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-loop-question/?output_format=md) 2 * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-loop-question/page/2/#post-2102608) * I’m sorry but you’ve lost me now… * Thread Starter [mdumka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdumka/) * (@mdumka) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-loop-question/page/2/#post-2102609) * OK … here is the Scenario … * I have a published ‘About Us’ page. It’s post_status is ‘publish’. Its currently on revision 9. * This page is Live … * I then make an edit to the ‘About Us’ page, I change the post status to ‘draft’. It is now on revision 10. * When my users visit the site, currently the way WordPress works is my ‘About Us’ page would not be visible becuase it’s status is ‘draft’. I want to customize the loop to show that last page that had a post_status of ‘publish’. * So that way my users see version 9 of ‘About Us’ while I work on version 10 in private. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-loop-question/page/2/#post-2102610) * Ah – I see. I don’t think you can do this. When you set the post_status to draft, you over-write the ‘publish’ post status. * Thread Starter [mdumka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdumka/) * (@mdumka) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-loop-question/page/2/#post-2102611) * Ok … * So then to get on to that stream, where is the post_status set? * I am guessing that it happens any time a post/page/custom type is created or updated. * Now the question is … in what file does that happen? * Because if I can find that, I can modify it to not update the post_type and then it can be searched using our queries above. * [Digital Raindrops](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adeptris/) * (@adeptris) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-loop-question/page/2/#post-2102612) * Seems a lot of work, instead of keeping loads of revisions why not just keep the same page twice. * One published one as a permanent draft, when happy with the draft revision preview, just copy and paste the html to overwrite the published page and press update. * David * Thread Starter [mdumka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdumka/) * (@mdumka) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-loop-question/page/2/#post-2102613) * This is for a corporate implementation … and people want to see what a page is going to look like in context of the rest of the website. * I know this may sound strange but its a big requirement when using this as a CMS … at least for our company. * [Digital Raindrops](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adeptris/) * (@adeptris) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-loop-question/page/2/#post-2102614) * Ok then keep the page as published in page.php call a function to return the last post revision with the post parent with the post->id. * This is just mock code for structure, you want visitors to see the latest revision, logged in users or admin to see the published post. * The page will not appear in the menu until it is published, so switch to the last revision in page.php * **UNTESTED:** * ``` $post->ID, 'post_type' => 'revision', 'post_status' => 'inherit', 'numberposts' => 1 ); $revision = get_posts( $args ); if ($revision) { $post = $revision; }else{ rewind_posts(); } } ?> ``` * Not sure about this `$post = $revision;` or `$posts = $revision;` or `$post[0] = $revision[0]` as an array is returned. * Might not need the rewind when using `get_posts()`? * HTH * David * Thread Starter [mdumka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdumka/) * (@mdumka) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-loop-question/page/2/#post-2102615) * Wow … Let me take some time to soak this in … but this looks fantastic! * Thanks so much … * Mike * Thread Starter [mdumka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdumka/) * (@mdumka) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-loop-question/page/2/#post-2102616) * Ok … I am not sure I understand. * How would I set this up with the actual page … If ‘About Us’ has to be edited but not published … how would the previous revision be viewed? * [Digital Raindrops](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adeptris/) * (@adeptris) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-loop-question/page/2/#post-2102617) * Ah ok, I read again the problem with using the post meta as a flag is that you would have to remember which revision you have it set on, or just find the first. * Lets say you had a custom field ‘published’, if this is set then that revision is ‘good to go’, again this is mock code and might have bugs! * Loop to find the first (latest) revision with a custom field of published with a value. * ``` $post->ID, 'post_type' => 'revision', 'post_status' => 'inherit' ); $revisions = get_posts( $args ); if($revisions) { foreach $revision as $revision { if ( get_post_meta($revision->ID,'published',true) ) { $my_post = $revision; break; } } } } ?> ``` * Then you would have to code to set the $post to my_post; * You could also code inside the loop to test the page meta, output the post and return! * Just bouncing ideas! * David * Thread Starter [mdumka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdumka/) * (@mdumka) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-loop-question/page/2/#post-2102619) * Ok … Mind has been swirling a bit and I think I have something but first … how is a page called? * So you have this page … [http://example.com/?p=10](http://example.com/?p=10) where the page/post ID is 10. * How does that get dumped into the loop? Viewing 11 replies - 16 through 26 (of 26 total) [←](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-loop-question/?output_format=md) [1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-loop-question/?output_format=md) 2 The topic ‘WordPress Loop Question’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 26 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [mdumka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdumka/) * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-loop-question/page/2/#post-2102619) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics