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WordPress

Liam Maclachlan
Liam Maclachlan
22,805 Points
Posted by Liam Maclachlan
Liam Maclachlan
22,805 Points

How do you correctly display custom post types in wordpress loop?

So, this is a bit more specific than the question is portraying.

My custom query is for a custom post type (Using the plugin CPT UI), I have activated thumbnail support in the functions.php and have created the category "vendor" (slug = "vendor").

The loop I am using is this:

                    <ul class="carousel-inner" role="listbox">

                        <?php $args = array('category_name' => 'vendor'); ?>
                        <?php $loop = new WP_Query($args); ?>
                        <?php if ( $loop->have_posts() ) : while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>

                        <li class="item">
                            <h1>There is a post!</h1>
                        </li>

                        <?php endwhile; ?>

                        <?php else: ?>
                            <h1>No posts here!</h1>
                        <?php endif; ?>
                        <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

                    </ul>

When I run the query no results are returned... any ideas?

1 Answer

Liam Maclachlan
Liam Maclachlan
22,805 Points
Liam Maclachlan
Liam Maclachlan
22,805 Points

Fixed! Huge div moment. Insead of waisting my time searching by category, I search by 'post_type=vendor' instead... funnily enough this works!! Code below.

                    <ul class="carousel-inner" role="listbox">

                        <?php $args = array('post_type' => 'Vendor'); ?>
                        <?php $loop = new WP_Query($args); ?>
                        <?php if ( $loop->have_posts() ) : while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>

                        <li class="item">
                            <h1>There is a post!</h1>
                        </li>

                        <?php endwhile; ?>

                        <?php else: ?>
                            <h1>No posts here!</h1>
                        <?php endif; ?>
                        <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

                    </ul>