Custom Query help needed!

  • Resolved pshero

    (@pshero)


    14 years, 4 months ago

    Hey gang,
    I’m trying to make a custom query of related posts by category, which works fine, but I’d also like to only include posts that have a post image (featured image) set. My query is pasted below, can anyone see what I’m doing wrong?

    // get other (random) posts from this category only as related posts //
	$backup = $post;  // backup the current object
	$categories = get_the_category($post->ID);
		if ($categories) {
			$category_ids = array();
                        foreach($categories as $individual_category) $category_ids[] = $individual_category->term_id;

	$args = array (
		'category__in' => $category_ids,
		'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
		showposts'=>10, // Number of related posts that will be shown.
			'orderby'=>'rand',
			'caller_get_posts'=>1,
			'post_image'=>true
			);

	$my_query = new wp_query($args);
	if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
	while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
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  • Spike

    (@rdlucas2)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    Probably a better way to do this, but inside the post, you could do something like this:

    <?php
$thumbcheck = get_the_post_thumbnail();
if ($thumbcheck == “”) {
//do nothing
} else {
//post content
}
?>
    Thread Starter pshero

    (@pshero)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks rdlucas2, but this isn’t for the post itself, this query pulls a list of related posts into a div at the end of the current post (on a single post page), which is why the filter needs to happen within the new query.

    Thread Starter pshero

    (@pshero)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    I was able to solve this problem by replacing the query item:

    ‘post_image’=>true

    with

    ‘meta_key’ => ‘_thumbnail_id’

    Not sure if it’s right, but it worked for me.

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