Mastering WP_Query

In this series, we're taking a deep look at WP_Query, WP_Comment_Query, and WP_User_Query so that we may gain a greater understanding of one of the most powerful APIs that WordPress has to offer.

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Mastering WP_Query: An Introduction
WP_Query is a powerful tool you can use to customise the way your WordPress site queries the database. In this introduction to the series I'll give an...
Rachel McCollin
4 Sep 2015
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Mastering WP_Query: Using the Loop
Continuing our series on WP_Query, in this tutorial I'll outline how you should use the loop with WP_Query.
Rachel McCollin
17 Jun 2022
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Mastering WP_Query: Related Functions
In this second part, we're going to learn about the functions that are related to WP_Query.
Barış Ünver
9 Sep 2015
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Mastering WP_Query: Actions and Filters
In this third part of our series, we're going to review the actions and filters related to WP_Query.
Barış Ünver
14 Sep 2015
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Mastering WP_Query: Properties and Methods
In this tutorial, you're going to learn about the properties and methods of the WP_Query class.
Barış Ünver
16 Sep 2015
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WP_Query Arguments: Posts, Pages, and Post Types
Creating custom queries for specific posts or post types with WP_Query gives you a lot of flexibility. Here are the arguments to use.
Rachel McCollin
24 May 2022
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WP_Query Arguments: Categories and Tags
In the next part of this series on mastering WP_Query, I'll show you the arguments you can use to query categories and tags with WP_Query and how to code them.
Rachel McCollin
25 Oct 2020
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WP_Query Arguments: Taxonomies
In the next part of the series on the WP_Query class, learn how to add arguments for taxonomy terms to WP_Query.
Rachel McCollin
26 May 2022
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WP_Query Arguments: Custom Fields
Learn how to query your posts by their custom field values (also known as post metadata) using the WP_Query class.
Rachel McCollin
30 Sep 2015
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WP_Query Arguments: Date
In this part of the series on WP_Query, learn how to query your posts by their publication date and use complex arrays of arguments to create more flexible...
Rachel McCollin
5 Oct 2015
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WP_Query Arguments: Status, Order, and Pagination
In the next part of this series on WP_Query, learn about the arguments you can use to query posts by status, to define the order in which they'll be output,...
Rachel McCollin
30 Jun 2022
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WP_Query Arguments: Author, Search, Password & Permissions
In this final tutorial on WP_Query arguments, learn about arguments to find posts by author, to use search terms in your query, to find posts with or without...
Rachel McCollin
12 Oct 2015
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Mastering WP_Query: 10 Useful Examples
Now that we've learned almost everything about the WP_Query class, it's time to try out some examples.
Barış Ünver
15 Jun 2022
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Combining WP_Query With the Main Query
In this part of our series on mastering WP_Query, you'll learn how to combine custom arguments in WP_Query with the main query.
Rachel McCollin
19 Oct 2015
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Mastering WP_User_Query
In this tutorial, you're going to learn about using the WP_User_Query class to query the user tables in WordPress.
Barış Ünver
21 Oct 2015
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Mastering WP_Comment_Query
In this tutorial, we're going to learn about one of the siblings of WP_Query: the WP_Comment_Query class.
Barış Ünver
26 Oct 2015
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Mastering WP_Meta_Query & WP_Date_Query
In this part of the series "Mastering WP_Query", you're going to learn about two sibling classes called WP_Meta_Query and WP_Date_Query.
Barış Ünver
28 Oct 2015
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