Comments on: WordPress - modified, dependent and extra Loops

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:47:04 +0000

@oliver

That would be tricky - doing the full WP_Query() for tag and category and not making any use of the page url default query should give you the right parameters - see the WP codex.

Does sort of defeat the object of tags (flat taxonomy) as opposed to categories (hierarchical taxonomy) though.

By: oliver

oliver — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:04:20 +0000

aha found out that tag&category cant get queried at the same time according to http://wordpress.org/support/topic/152904?replies=28
(shows a happy workaround)

Thats why $query_string . ‘&category_name=featured’ as tag+cat wont work either. Wonder how you made it work though ;)))

By: oliver

oliver — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:35:41 +0000

hello,
im still new to wp, but need things “advanced” as filter posts in its categories on a tag page.
So after hours of try/error and search for a solution I found your article which explains it quite well using query_post.

But -> query_posts($query_string . ‘&category_name=featured’)
still it still doesnt filter to tag+cat, but shows ALL cat entries per tag. I also tried cat_ID, cat_name, category_nicename etc. Any ideas?

( I thought that maybe $query_string gives a wrong tagname. Whats puzzling me is if i echo $query_string(”", true); it gives me tag=foo() as result with tag=, but if i have $query_string = $current_tag; $query_string(”", true); its foo() , which is correct, but doesnt help.. )

Os..

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:07:34 +0000

WordPress conditional tags is the place to start for all that…

By: Rory

Rory — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:33:47 +0000

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. What’s the simplest method of querying the database to establish if a specific post or Page is published and then use this as a conditional to display certain text or graphic independent of the post and the Loop?