{"id":18795424,"date":"2026-01-22T22:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/get_posts-not-working-with-include-array\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T22:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:31:39","slug":"get_posts-not-working-with-include-array","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/get_posts-not-working-with-include-array\/","title":{"rendered":"get_posts with meta_query and include array"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following query works, but I&#8217;m not sure how to modify it to accomplish what I want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$authorPosts = get_posts(array(<br \/><br \/>  'post_type' =&gt; 'post',<br \/><br \/>  'posts_per_page' =&gt; -1,<br \/><br \/>  'meta_query' =&gt; array(<br \/><br \/>    array(<br \/><br \/>      'key' =&gt; 'author',<br \/><br \/>      'value' =&gt; '\"' . get_the_ID() . '\"',<br \/><br \/>      'compare' =&gt; 'LIKE'<br \/><br \/>    )<br \/><br \/>  )<br \/><br \/>));<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I want to manually include a few posts that do not have the author field value that&#8217;s in the meta_query. How can I include them anyway? Where can I integrate the following?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><code>'include' =&gt; array( 9048, 6289 ),<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18795424","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18795424","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18795424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18795435,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18795424\/revisions\/18795435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18795424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}