Author template Multiple Custom Post type queries

  • Resolved 10PL8

    (@10pl8)


    13 years, 1 month ago

    Hi all, I am an extreme WP novice… and am basically trying to figure out as I go.

    I have created a Author page for a WP site, where I want to display each of the authors published CPT’s separately/categorically. I have managed to achieve this by doing separate WP_Query’s for each CPT and then resetting the query each time etc…

    Here is my code:

    <div class="tab-container" id="tab-container">

<ul class="etabs">
<li class="tab active"><a href="#maintab1" class="active">TAB1</a></li>
<li class="tab"><a href="#maintab2" >TAB2</a></li>
<li class="tab"><a href="#maintab3" >TAB3</a></li>
</ul>                                    

<div class="panel-container">

<div id="maintab1">
<div id="tab-container-inner">

<?php

echo '<ul style="margin-left: 75px;" class="etabs">';

$postTypes =  array('post_type1', 'post_type2', 'post_type3', 'post_type4');
$loopTypes = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => $postTypes, 'author' => $curauth->ID ));

foreach ($postTypes as $postType) {
if ( $loopTypes->have_posts() ) {
echo '<li class="tab"><a href="#'.$postType.'"><span class="tab">'.$postType.'</span></a></li>';
}else{
return;
}

}

wp_reset_query();
echo '</ul>';

?>
<div>
<?php 

$current_cpt = 'post_type1';
$loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => $current_cpt, 'author' => $curauth->ID, 'posts_per_page' =>-1, 'orderby' => 'title', 'order' => 'DESC'));
if ( $loop->have_posts() ) :
$obj = $wp_post_types[$current_cpt];
echo '<div id="'.$current_cpt.'">';
echo '<h2>'.$obj->labels->singular_name.'</h2>';
?>
<div id="portfolio-image-wrap"><span id="portfolio-image-wrap-shadow"></span>
<img id="main-image" class="<?php echo $current_cpt;?>">
<?php 

echo '<div>';
echo '<ul id="items" class="' . $current_cpt . '">';

while ($loop->have_posts()) : $loop->the_post();
echo '<div></div>'; //Display some layout stuff $current_cpt 

endwhile;
echo "</ul>";
wp_reset_query();
wp_reset_postdata();
$current_cpt = '';

echo '</div>';
endif;

$current_cpt = 'post_type2';
$loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => $current_cpt, 'author' => $curauth->ID, 'posts_per_page' =>-1, 'orderby' => 'title', 'order' => 'DESC'));
if ( $loop->have_posts() ) :
$obj = $wp_post_types[$current_cpt];
echo '<div id="'.$current_cpt.'">';
echo '<h2>'.$obj->labels->singular_name.'</h2>';
?>
<div id="portfolio-image-wrap"><span id="portfolio-image-wrap-shadow"></span>
<img id="main-image" class="<?php echo $current_cpt;?>">
<?php 

echo '<div>';
echo '<ul id="items" class="' . $current_cpt . '">';

while ($loop->have_posts()) : $loop->the_post();
echo '<div></div>'; //Display some layout stuff $current_cpt 

endwhile;
echo "</ul>";
wp_reset_query();
wp_reset_postdata();
$current_cpt = '';

echo '</div>';
endif;

$current_cpt = 'post_type3';
$loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => $current_cpt, 'author' => $curauth->ID, 'posts_per_page' =>-1, 'orderby' => 'title', 'order' => 'DESC'));
if ( $loop->have_posts() ) :
$obj = $wp_post_types[$current_cpt];
echo '<div id="'.$current_cpt.'">';
echo '<h2>'.$obj->labels->singular_name.'</h2>';
?>
<div id="portfolio-image-wrap"><span id="portfolio-image-wrap-shadow"></span>
<img id="main-image" class="<?php echo $current_cpt;?>">
<?php 

echo '<div>';
echo '<ul id="items" class="' . $current_cpt . '">';

while ($loop->have_posts()) : $loop->the_post();
echo '<div></div>'; //Display some layout stuff $current_cpt 

endwhile;
echo "</ul>";
wp_reset_query();
wp_reset_postdata();
$current_cpt = '';

echo '</div>';
endif;
?>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div id="maintab2">
</div>
<div id="maintab3">
</div>

    I need help with two things:
    – I know this is not good practice to achieve this???
    – How do i get authors post types, where he/she has posted in ONLY???

Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total)
  • Thread Starter 10PL8

    (@10pl8)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Any help would be greatly appreciated… I have literally spent days trying to work this out…

    Thread Starter 10PL8

    (@10pl8)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Anyone??? I searched the support forums here and all over the net and was unable to find any sort of answer’s to my questions…

    Any help, even just to point me in the right direction.

    please please help…

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    To get the post types that authors have posted in you can use this your theme’s functions.php:

    function get_author_post_types( $author_id = false ) {
	$results = array();
	if ( $author_id ) {
		$post_types= get_post_types( array( 'public' => true ), 'names', 'and' );
		$post_types = array_keys( $post_types );
		$sql = array();
		global $wpdb;
		$sql[] = "SELECT DISTINCT post_type FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_author = %d AND (post_status = 'publish') AND post_type IN(".implode( ', ', array_fill( 0, count( $post_types ), '%s' ) ).")";
		$sql[] = $author_id;
		$sql = array_merge( $sql, $post_types );
		$query = call_user_func_array( array( $wpdb, 'prepare' ), $sql );
		$results = $wpdb->get_results( $query );
		if ( $results )
			$results = wp_list_pluck( $results, 'post_type' );
	}
	return $results;
}

    In your author template you are now able to get an array of post types by using something similar to this:

    <?php
// get post types for author with id 4
$author_post_types = get_author_post_types( 4 );
if ( !empty( $author_post_types ) ) {
	foreach ( $author_post_types as $post_type ) {
		echo 'this author posted in ' . $post_type;
	}
}
?>

    Thread Starter 10PL8

    (@10pl8)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    keesiemeijer that worked perfectly – your a legend!!!

    Last question and I promise to leave you alone 🙂

    How would I go about doing either (Which ever is easiest):
    – Exclude a specific cpt from query
    OR
    – Retrieve results from an array of post types

    Thanks a million!!!

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Retrieve results from an array of post types is easier.
    Just use it as you already do:

    $author_post_types = get_author_post_types( 4 );
$loopTypes = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => $author_post_types, 'author' => $curauth->ID ));

    Exluding a post type would be similar to first retrieving all post types and then excluding it from the array:

    // get all post types (post, page, attachment, custom post types )
$post_types = get_post_types( array( 'public' => true ), 'names', 'and' );

// remove post type "post_type1" from $post_types array
unset($post_types['post_type1']);

// use array keys value from $post_types array
$post_types = array_keys( $post_types )

// query post types
$loopTypes = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => $post_types, 'author' => $curauth->ID ));

    http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Function_Reference/get_post_types

    Thread Starter 10PL8

    (@10pl8)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    That worked beautifully, thank you very much for your help Keesiemeijer.

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    You’re welcome. I’m glad you’ve got it resolved 🙂

    Thread Starter 10PL8

    (@10pl8)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Keesiemeijer – last question (I promise this time :))

    I loved your get_author_post_types() function, works exactly how i want it to, to exclude a specific CPT I included the “unset($post_types[‘post_type1’]);” in the actual function to exclude a specific CPT…

    I have tried incorporating the get_author_post_types() function to display my CPT’s to limit the WP_query’s… But every time it returns all posts in all CPT’s, is there any way other than doing individual query’s and reseting it each time for each CPT to separate/categorize each CPT???

    I am super grateful for all your help 🙂

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    If you want to show the custom post types seperated on the page you have to query for them seperately.

    How did you try to incorporate the function to display the CPT’s?

    Thread Starter 10PL8

    (@10pl8)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Nothing special, i essentially used the array of CPT’s created by your function in my WP_query…

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    The function returns all post types the author has posted in. To show the post types posts separately you can loop through them. Example [untested]:

    <?php
// get post types for author with id 4
$author_post_types = get_author_post_types( 4 );
if ( !empty( $author_post_types ) ) :
	foreach ( $author_post_types as $post_type ) :
?>
<?php
$loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => $post_type, 'author' => $curauth->ID ));
?>

<!-- the loop (used for all author post types) -->
<?php while ($loop->have_posts()) : $loop->the_post(); ?>
<!-- put the rest of the loop here -->
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

<?php  endforeach; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

    Thread Starter 10PL8

    (@10pl8)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    That’s exactly how I tried to implement it. It does exactly what its supposed to do.

    Essentially what I am trying to output for each post type is:

    <div id="uniqueID">
<h2>Post type name</h2>
<div><img></div><!--This gets manipulated using jQuery src attr-->
<ul>
<!--
list all relavant posts to current CPT.
these li's are thumbnails which change the above image when clicked
-->
<li>Post type, post 1</li>
<li>Post type, post 2</li>
</ul>
</div>

    The only way I could think of achieving this is getting the counts per post type / per author then outputting the closing tags based on that.

    I am using your function to output a set of links to each of these and then display the relevant <div id=uniqueID”> depending on which link is clicked using jQuery.

    It works well duplicating the WP_Query and loop. But I’m worried about server stress. I currently have 7 query’s (Including the query in your function) – is that too many?

    Thread Starter 10PL8

    (@10pl8)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    keesiemeijer, once again – thank you for your help 🙂

    I have another question if possible…

    Is there anyway to tailor that function to fetch a specific Post type, but only return the taxonomies that have been posted in.

    I’m basically trying to do the same as the first, but this time display the CPT (there’s only one) categorized by Taxonomy, or do i have to do individual queries for each taxonomy (there are 18) ?

    Thanks in advance.

    Thread Starter 10PL8

    (@10pl8)

    13 years ago

    This is what I have so far, I know it needs a lot more work though (Getting loads of errors)

    function get_author_post_taxs( $author_id = false ) {
	$results = array();
	if ( $author_id ) {

		$tax_types = get_terms( 'photograph-subject', 'orderby=count&hide_empty=0' );

		$tax_types = array_keys( $tax_types );
		global $wpdb;
		$sql = "SELECT DISTINCT post_type FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_author = %d AND (post_status = 'publish') AND post_type IN(".implode( ', ', array_fill( 0, count( $post_types ), '%s' ) ).")";
		$sql = array_merge( array( $sql ), array( $author_id ) );
		$sql = array_merge( $sql, $post_types );
		$query = call_user_func_array( array( $wpdb, 'prepare' ), $sql );
		$results = $wpdb->get_results( $query );
		if ( $results )
			$results = wp_list_pluck( $results, 'taxonomy' );
	}
	return $results;
}

    Any help would be very much appreciated 🙂 or any suggestions or direction…

    Please i’m desperate.

Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total)

The topic ‘Author template Multiple Custom Post type queries’ is closed to new replies.