Hi, <\/p>\n
I’ve been trying to implement a small nested loop on my wordpress homepage, local copy only just now(no url)…<\/p>\n
What im trying to achieve is this:<\/p>\n
check what month it is; ie: current month = 1 \/\/Jan
\ncheck what posts have this as a category…
\nshow 5 posts IF there is any, If there’s none,
\nthen move onto the next month(category) and show 5 from that…<\/p>\n
code is below.. \/\/ Code on the Homepage<\/p>\n so basically on the first part of the code, it checks for any posts which belongs to the category ie: Jan, if there is then show 5 posts from that category, if there is none, then check for any posts from the next month(category), if there is is then loop through 5 of them, using a new query?<\/p>\n should i be using the setup_postdata and a new query, or should the query be continued from the first check?<\/p>\n thanks for any help<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1348526","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-nested-loop"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1348526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1348526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfunctions.php<\/strong><\/p>\nfunction get_current_month_category()\n{\n\t$thismonth = date("M");\n\t\/\/$thismonth = "Feb";\n\t\/\/$thecat = $thismonth;\n\t\/\/echo $thismonth;\n\tswitch($thismonth) {\n\t\tcase "Jan" : $thecat = "23";\n\t\tcase "Feb" : $thecat = "7";\n\t\tcase "Mar" : $thecat = "8";\n\t\tcase "Apr" : $thecat = "9";\n\t\tcase "May" : $thecat = "27";\n\t\tcase "Jun" : $thecat = "31";\n\t\tcase "Jul" : $thecat = "24";\n\t\tcase "Aug" : $thecat = "20";\n\t\tcase "Sept" : $thecat = "15";\n\t\tcase "Oct" : $thecat = "16";\n\t\tcase "Nov" : $thecat = "17";\n\t\tcase "Dec" : $thecat = "21";\n\t\tdefault : $thecat = "23"; \/\/ Jan\n\t}\n\treturn $thecat;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n<div>\n<?php\n$thismonth = get_current_month_category();\necho "<!-- Current Month Category: " . $thismonth."-->";\n$sql = "cat=".$thismonth."&showposts=5&order=ASC";\n$my_query = $wpdb->get_results($sql, OBJECT);\n\nif ($my_query): foreach ($my_query as $post): setup_postdata($post);\n$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;\n?>\n<ul style="position: relative;">\n<li>\n<h4><a class="continue" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">\n<?php the_title();?><\/a><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n <strong>Date<\/strong>:\n <?php echo c2c_get_custom('Event-Day'); ?>\/\n <?php echo c2c_get_custom('Event-Month'); ?> @\n <?php echo c2c_get_custom('Event-Time'); ?>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>\n<?php endforeach; \/\/endwhile; ?>\n<?php else : ?>\n<h4>Nothing this Month - Viewing Next Month<\/h4>\n<ul style="position: relative;">\n<?php\n$nextmonth = get_next_month_category();\n$args=array(\n\t'cat'=>$nextmonth,\n\t'showposts' => '10',\n\t'order' => 'ASC'\n);\n$my_query = null;\n$my_query = new WP_Query($args);\nif( $my_query->have_posts() ) { while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();\n?>\n<li><h4><a class="continue" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title();?><\/a><\/h4><\/li>\n<li style="position: absolute; top: 0px; right: 5px;">\n<strong>Date<\/strong>:\n<?php echo c2c_get_custom('Event-Day'); ?>\/\n<?php echo c2c_get_custom('Event-Month'); ?> @\n<?php echo c2c_get_custom('Event-Time'); ?>\n<\/li>\n<?php endwhile; } ?>\n<\/ul>\n<?php endif; ?>\n<\/div><\/code><\/pre>\n