Post Formats

  • Hello guys, I am trying to query by post format. Here is my code,

    $args = array(
    'tax_query' => array(
        array(
            'taxonomy' => 'post-format',
            'field' => 'slug',
            'terms' => array('post-format-video'),
        )
    )
);

$query = new WP_Query($args);

if ($query -> have_posts()) : while ($query -> have_posts()) : $query -> the_post();

$out .= get_the_title();

endwhile; endif;

return $out;

    The query works fine when I do this,

    $query = new WP_Query('showposts=5');

    It just does not return anything when I try to use the ‘tax_query’ as shown above.

    Also, I am using the WooTumblog plugin which is registering the formats with this line, and I can see the post formats in my admin so there should not be a problem there.

    add_theme_support( 'post-formats', array( 'aside', 'image', 'audio', 'video', 'quote', 'link' ) );

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  • Thread Starter Yeowza

    (@yeowza)

    Anyone use post formats? ??

    There don’t seem to be a lot of experts yet for any of this. I’ve been trying to find an answer to a question about querying post formats myself, but I’m in the same boat as you.

    Thread Starter Yeowza

    (@yeowza)

    Thanks for the reply GATEKeeper.

    I’ve found a few topics on it, https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/10855/how-do-i-query-by-post-format-in-wordpress-3-1

    But it does not seem to work for anyone. Maybe we’ll have a solution in the next update for this.

    Interesting. The final code they posted does work for me – the key thing to note is that it’s post_format, not post-format:

    $args = array(
  'tax_query' => array(
    array(
      'taxonomy' => 'post_format',
      'field' => 'slug',
      'terms' => 'post-format-quote'
    )
  )
);
query_posts( $args );

    But I still can’t get that to work within the context of my query:

    <?php
	query_posts( array( 'post__not_in' => $ids, 'showposts' => 10, 'cat' => '-4' ) ); ?>
    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<!-- Loop Stuff -->
    <?php endwhile; ?>

    Wait, never mind. I solved it now that I had the right code.

    I still need to test it more, but this should work in my specific context:

    <?php
$args = array(
  'post__not_in' => $ids,
  'showposts' => 10,
  'cat' => '-4,-1866,-27',
  'tax_query' => array(
    array(
      'taxonomy' => 'post_format',
      'field' => 'slug',
      'terms' => 'post-format-image'
    )
  )
);
	query_posts( $args ); ?>
<!-- Look Stuff -->
    <?php endwhile; ?>

    My final, remaining question though is how I query for standard post formats? post-format-standard does not work.

    Eureka, I found the final piece of this.

    The key for me is to add at the end:

    'operator' => 'NOT IN',

    so it looks for posts that aren’t in the image post format. Or I have to add an array of terms to the terms line.

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