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Properly Calculating Page Offset in Custom WordPress Queries

October 25, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

[…] pagination. One of the areas that I see most confusing – again for myself as well – is properly calculating page offsets especially when working with the WP_Query offset parameter. The thing is, I think it can be much more simplified (or, perhaps, demystified?) when visualizing the data that you’re working with, and knowing […]

How To Setup Custom Queries For WP_Query Pagination

October 23, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

[…] expected. Ultimately, it required me passing a little bit more information to the query’s arguments array and to the pagination link functions. Here’s how you can setup WP_Query Pagination to work properly in custom queries. A Few Assumptions There are two assumptions that I’m making about your setup: You’re using pretty permalinks. That is, […]

How To Efficiently Exclude Categories From The WordPress Loop

July 31, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to writing custom queries in WordPress, ` WP_Query` is the API to use. And I could be mistaken, but I do see a lot of people urging developers to avoiding using `query_posts` in WordPress in favor this newer-ish API. But the thing is that `query_posts` still has its place in WordPress development namely […]

Writing Clean, Maintainable Custom WordPress Queries

November 14, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

[…] Query for the 10 most recent posts by the specified users $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 10, ‘author’ => $featured_user_ids ); $the_query = new WP_Query( $args ); // Finally, loop through the posts while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) { $the_query->the_post(); /* Snipped for brevity, but this is where the markup would render […]

How To Use WP_User_Query For WordPress User Queries

September 28, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

[…] its API with each new release. Recall that The Right Way™ was once to use query_posts in order to retrieve post data. However, as of recent releases, WP_Query has become The Right Way™ to do it. It’s a cleaner interface, more powerful, and is the way that’s backed by Automattic and the developer community […]