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Posted by Zaid Erikat
Zaid Erikat
4,124 Points

WP get posts with custom post format from every category

I'm trying to get posts from all categories but with one post format, the post format named homePost, i just a beginner in WordPress and i just finished learning the front-end developing and PHP+MySQL developing and i need your help guys :) Here is my code

 <?php $args = array( 'orderby' => 'name', 'parent' => 0 );
 $categories = get_categories( $args );
 foreach ( $categories as $category ) {
 $homePosts = array(
 'post_type'=> 'post',
 'post_status' => 'publish',
 'category'         => $category->cat_ID,
 'order' => 'DESC',
 'tax_query' => array(
 array(
'taxonomy' => 'post_format',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => array( 'homePost' )
)
)
 );
 $asides = get_posts( $homePosts );
 if ( count($asides) ) {
 foreach ( $asides as $homePosts ) {
        '<p>' + 'Test' + '</p>' ;
    }
}
 }
 ?>
George Deselop
George Deselop
799 Points

Since you want all categories to be displayed, you can try removing the category terms from your array. :)

1 Answer

Mike Mazzolini
Mike Mazzolini
3,677 Points
Mike Mazzolini
Mike Mazzolini
3,677 Points

Zaid,

You have many ideas smashed together in this code chunk. What is happening is that you are too specific in your post query parameters so you are trying to regain functionality that is there by default. For example, you don't need to specify a category id if you want all the categories and you don't need to specify desc order.

If homePost is a custom taxonomy then use this code:

$args = array (
'post_type' => 'post', // this line is only needed if you have custom post types, if not, you can remove this line
'post_status' => 'publish',
'tax_query' => array(
    array(
        'taxonomy' => 'post_format',
        'field'    => 'slug',
        'terms'    => 'homePost'
        )
    )
);

If homePost is a custom post type then use this code:

$args = array (
'post_type' => 'homePost',
'post_status' => 'publish'
);

Both $args arrays will return all categories in desc order. After you pick one then do the query:

$query = new WP_Query( $args );

Now iterate through each post returned from the query:

if (count($query->posts) > 0)
{
// each post code, like container div
}
else
{
echo "no posts";
}
Mike Mazzolini
Mike Mazzolini
3,677 Points
Mike Mazzolini
Mike Mazzolini
3,677 Points

sorry my line breaks disappeared for some reason