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Start your free trialMatt Jakachira
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 5,536 PointsAfter adding the WP_Query my page just spins?
Here is my code, I made a change to WP_Query as I wanted to pull posts that had a specific category....
<!--Used to display Posts that match the category DryPeel-->
<?php
$query = new WP_Query( array( 'category_name' => 'DryPeel' ) );
?>
<div class="like-content-posts">
<?php if( $query->have_posts() ) : while( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_posts(); ?>
<div class="like-posts">
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('medium'); ?></a>
</div>
<?php endwhile; endif; wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
</div>
2 Answers
Sue Dough
35,800 PointsYou can't do it like that. You need to do a tax query. This should get you going as long as you can figure out the proper custom post type name, taxonomy name, and the lowercase slug category name.
<?php
// Category Query
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'custom_postype_name', // YOU NEED TO CHANGE THIS
'tax_query' => array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'customtaxonomy_category', // YOU NEED TO CHANGE THIS TO YOUR TAXONOMY
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => 'drypeel', // THIS HAS TO BE LOWERCASE, CHECK THE SLUG COLUMN IN BACKEND
)
)
);
$category_query = new WP_Query( $args );
?>
<div class="like-content-posts">
<?php if ( $category_query->have_posts() ) : while ( $category_query->have_posts() ) : $category_query->the_post(); ?>
<div class="like-posts">
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail( 'medium' ); ?></a>
</div>
<?php endwhile; endif; wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
</div>
Matt Jakachira
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 5,536 PointsSo i did change the arg$ info according to my custom post type and taxonomy but nothing shows on the page
<?php // Category Query $args = array( 'post_type' => 'markets-subcontent', // YOU NEED TO CHANGE THIS 'tax_query' => array( array( 'taxonomy' => 'market', // YOU NEED TO CHANGE THIS TO YOUR TAXONOMY 'field' => 'Market', 'terms' => 'drypeel', // THIS HAS TO BE LOWERCASE, CHECK THE SLUG COLUMN IN BACKEND ) ) ); $category_query = new WP_Query( $args ); ?>
How do i go about troubleshooting this?
Sue Dough
35,800 PointsMatt Jakachira make sure you do
'field' => 'slug',
you put 'Market' there which won't work. So change that and if it still does not work then double check your taxonomy name.
Peter Gregory
6,614 PointsPeter Gregory
6,614 PointsI did the same thing. My site was just displaying posts, over and over again. Here's what I did to fix the repeating post images:
Wrong : $query->the_posts(); />
Right: $query->the_post(); />