michaelgodfrey

Much research showed that the only problem is that in the reading section on the dashboard, one must match the posts_per_page with the ‘blogs pages show at most’ setting.

This also made a difference:

$paged = 1;
if ( get_query_var('paged') ) $paged = get_query_var('paged');
if ( get_query_var('page') ) $paged = get_query_var('page');

I got different behaviors out of the 3 different nav types base on the value being paged vs. page.

I looked for a method to detach the ‘blogs pages show at most’ from the posts_per_page setting. I was hoping to have the number displayed to be different on standard and mobile themes. This showed lots of promise, but I never managed to get it to implement right:

https://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/custom-post-type-pagination-chaining-method/

So for now I’ll use the one global setting.

Solved.
Took a lot of trial and error, but here is what finally worked. The solution requires ‘tax_query’ and arrays within arrays.

<?php $folio_loop = new WP_Query( array(
	'post_type' => 'individuals',
	'post_status' => 'publish',
	'tax_query' => array(
	'relation' => 'OR',
                  array(
                      	'taxonomy' => 'home-location',
			'terms' => array('new-york','new-jersey','connecticut'),
                      	'field' => 'slug',
		),
		array(
                      	'taxonomy' => 'visiting-location',
			'terms' => array('visiting-new-york'),
                      	'field' => 'slug',
		),
	),
	'posts_per_page' => -1,
	'orderby' => 'menu_order') );
?>

Update:

I’m getting closer. The custom taxonomies and custom post types seemed to play a big factor.

I can do a new WP_Query

<?php $folio_loop = new WP_Query( array(
	'post_type' => 'individuals',
	'posts_per_page' => -1,
	'home-location' => 'los-angeles',
	'orderby' => 'menu_order') );
?>

The above code will overide all individuals that live in new-york with los-angeles. So my query loop is working. Now my problem is how to properly array it. I’ve experimented and when I add a second value, I get every individual from every location in my query. The below example is one such attempt.

<?php $folio_loop = new WP_Query( array(
	'post_type' => 'individuals',
	'posts_per_page' => -1,
	array(
		'home-location' => 'new-york',
		'visiting-location' => 'visiting-new-york'),
	'orderby' => 'menu_order') );
?>

I would think that this would give me people living in the New York taxonomy and the people in the visiting taxonomy as well.