Corneliatt

Oh, I thought I had solve this, but now it doesn’t work. When I use “>” or something like that in the title it won’t find anything (of course, because the slug doesn’t contain >). Can I somehow strip the the_title() from >??

Thank you in advance!

Hi and thanks for your answer. Can’t move this, so I guess I have to stay here 😉
I got it to work tho.. but with one problem solved, I found a new one… And this one is really basic, so I think it fits here 😉

I have got a query that looks like this:

$new_query = new WP_Query(array('faq' => 'question', 'post_type' => 'question_faq', 'orderby' => 'rand', 'showposts' => '1'));

This works perfectly. But it doesn’t work if I change ‘question’ to the variable $title like this:

$title = the_title();
echo $title;

$new_query = new WP_Query(array('faq' => $title, 'post_type' => 'question_faq', 'orderby' => 'rand', 'showposts' => '1'));

In the echo just before the query the $title is echoed just perfectly, but as soon as it gets into the query it somehow looses its value.

Does anyone know why is this?

Ok, so I found a plugin that solves this without any hacking. It’s called Ambrosite Next/Previous Post Link Plus and using this I just added:
<?php previous_post_link_plus( array('order_by' => 'post_date', 'format' => '%link', 'link' => '<span class="paddy">&raquo;</span>', 'in_same_cat' => true, 'ex_cats' => '5', 'ex_cats_method' => 'strong') ); ?>

and problem solved!! 🙂 Thanks for your help!

Hi!
After some searching I found this script:
(functions.php)

function prev_next_dont_include( $ids ) {
foreach ( get_categories() as $category ) : // loop thru all WP cats
    if ( !in_array( $category->cat_ID, $ids ) ) : // check if cat id is in $ids
        $categories[] = $category->cat_ID; // build list of real excluded ids
    endif;
endforeach;
return implode( ' and ', $categories ); // "1 and 2 and 5 and 7 and 16 and 23"
}

(loop-single.php)
<?php next_post_link('%link', '&raquo;', false, prev_next_dont_include(array(5))); ?>

This script seem to do the opposite of what I want. When using this, the navigation is just between blog posts in category ‘5’..

Is there a way to edit this to make it exclude all categories except 5?

Would be so grateful if someone could please help me!

I’m almost embarrased to tell you the error.

I was totally focused on the script and really thought it was something wrong there. But the error was due to spaces in my theme name on the server…..

Thanks to both of you for trying to solve this none existing jquery error!! >_<

Ok, thanks for your help. I’ve solved it!

Hi again!
Now everything is how it should be, except for one “small” thing.
I want to sort the blog posts after a custom date picker field. I found this script which should do exactly what I want.

In functions:

// CREATE UNIX TIME STAMP FROM DATE PICKER
function custom_unixtimesamp ( $post_id ) {
    if ( get_post_type( $post_id ) == 'events' ) {
	$startdate = get_post_meta($post_id, 'startdate', true);

		if($startdate) {
			$dateparts = explode('-', $startdate);
			$newdate1 = strtotime(date('Ymd', strtotime($dateparts[1].'/'.$dateparts[2].'/'.$dateparts[0])));
			update_post_meta($post_id, 'unixstartdate', $newdate1  );
		}
	}
}
add_action( 'save_post', 'custom_unixtimesamp', 100, 2);

In the loop:

<?php
	 $title = get_the_title();

	 if ($title == 'Upcoming') {  

	 $today = time();

         $args = array(
	'category_name' => 'events',
	'posts_per_page' => 5,

	'meta_query' => array(
		array(
			'key' => 'unixstartdate',
			'compare' => '>=',
			'value' => $today,
		)
	),

	'meta_key' => 'startdate',
	'orderby' => 'meta_value',
	'order' => 'ASC',
);

$post_query = new WP_Query( $args );

	  // The Loop
	 if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
     <li>
     <h2>
	  	<span class="ingress"><?php echo date('d F', custom_unixtimestamp($startdate )); ?></span><br />
		<?php the_title(); ?></h2>
        <?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { the_post_thumbnail('medium'); }?>
        <p><?php the_content(); ?></p>
	  </li>

	  <?php
	  endwhile;
	  endif;
	  }
	  ?>

But I can’t get it to work.
First of all, the script doesn’t seem to catch the dates (1 january 1970 on all the posts) and well.. I guess that’s also why it doesn’t sort it correctly. Could anyone please help me out on this one? 🙂

Hi there!
The thing is, there’s not much more to show.. here’s the code for loop.php:

<?php $pages = get_pages('sort_column=menu_order');
     foreach ($pages as $page_data) {
     $content = apply_filters('the_content',
     $page_data->post_content);
     $title = $page_data->post_title;
	?>
    <div class="section">
			<h1><?php echo $title; ?></h1>
			<span class="ingress"><?php the_field('ingress'); ?></span>
			<div class="entry-content">
             <?php echo $content; ?>
      <ul>
	  <?php

	  // The Query
	  query_posts( array ( 'category_name' => $title, 'posts_per_page' => -1 ) );

	  // The Loop
	 if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
	    <li>
        <?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { the_post_thumbnail('medium'); }?>
	  	<h2><?php the_field('date'); ?>, <?php the_title(); ?></h2>
        <p><?php the_content(); ?></p>
	  </li>

	  <?php
	  endwhile;
	  endif;
	  ?>
</ul>

</div><!-- .entry-content -->
</div>
<?php
}
?>

Btw. Just realized I have to do something about the the_field “ingress” because it isn’t going through the page_data as the title and content. How do I manage to do this? Could this be part of the problem?