This guide is for you who have a custom post type (CPT) and want an advanced search page that searches for results within this CPT. In the search form you can set up different inputs for searching within different fields; post title, post content, any type of custom meta or by custom taxonomy. In this […]
In this final lesson we learn how to write your own query of posts and loop through them without interrupting the parent loop in the template. We’ll make a template part for single posts that shows related posts in the same category. What we will make in this lesson is a related posts query in […]
In some cases you might need to modify the global post query WordPress is performing on any page you are visiting – both admin and frontend. In this guide we will look at which hook to use, and how to change the query arguments to your liking. Which hook to use First you need to […]
In this lesson of the WordPress theme tutorial for beginners we will go into detail about the “post loop” in WordPress; what it is, how it looks like, why we use it and how to access posts. We will then go about implementing the loop in our theme. The post loop If you are familiar […]
What methods are available for making a custom post query, and when are they best to use? This post aims to establish a solid understanding of two methods of querying posts, how to access the results, how to build arguments, and finally how to clean up after it. The two methods we’ll look at are […]