Jay

I found an even better way to do this.

When you navigate to /type/standard, WordPress does try to perform a query on post_format = post-format-standard, but that just doesn’t return anything, because there is no post-format-standard.

So you can add a pre_get_posts action to perform this query if WP is “trying” to get standard posts this way:

function standard_posts( $query ) {
	if ( $query->get( 'post_format' ) === 'post-format-standard' ) {
		$query->set( 'tax_query', array(
			array(
				'taxonomy' => 'post_format',
				'operator' => 'NOT EXISTS'
			)
		) );

		$query->set( 'post_format', NULL );
	}
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'standard_posts' );

The output of the_archive_title would just be Archives, so you can fix this in this slightly hacky way:

function standard_posts_archive_title( $title ) {
	if ( is_tax() && $title === 'Archives' ) {
		return __( 'Standard Posts' );
	}
	return $title;
}
add_filter( 'get_the_archive_title', 'standard_posts_archive_title', 10, 1 );

• This reply was modified 7 months, 2 weeks ago by Jay.
• This reply was modified 7 months, 1 week ago by bcworkz. Reason: 'query' changed to 'get' in action hook

Because the wp:query block doesn’t natively support the NOT EXISTS operator, I had to create this custom filter:

// https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/422394/2478
function nopostformat_query_loop_block_query_vars( $query, $block ) {
  if ( $block->context['query']['noPostFormat'] ) {
    $query['tax_query'] = array(
      array(
        'taxonomy' => 'post_format',
        'operator' => 'NOT EXISTS',
      ),
    );
  }

  return $query;
}
add_filter( 'query_loop_block_query_vars', 'nopostformat_query_loop_block_query_vars', 10, 2 );

Then, in my block template file:

<!-- wp:query { "query": { "perPage": 2, "postType": "post", "order": "desc", "orderBy": "date", "noPostFormat": true } } -->

Thanks @gappiah — Should it be possible then to navigate to an archive page for which post_format is not defined? ?post_format= for instance?

Is there any other way to view an archive of “undefined” post format posts you can think of?

I could create a Page Template that does the query for NOT_EXISTS on post_format, but I wish there were a more direct/native way to do this.

@volkerforster Thanks for the report — what database table are these WooCommerce fields in?

Hm strange. I had disabled all other plugins and Safari extensions, and switched to the Twenty Twenty-Three theme to test this. The problem only returned when I re-activated Autoptimize.

I’m using the Gutenberg / block editor

Turning off the metabox option fixes this

This is not an issue with my WordPress install; this is an issue with the WordPress Trac site.

I think this is a Safari issue! I just tried this in Firefox and it worked great. https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/issues/43068

This has been happening to me for a long time, too, on half a dozen sites with all kinds of various setups. Most notably it happens on a site with no activated plugins other than Jetpack. I tried deactivating, uninstalling, and reinstalling with no luck.

WordPress 5.5.1 with a custom theme that doesn’t do anything to wp_title, just does add_support('title-tag') and wp_head

Sorry, quote replacement doesn’t work in wp_title when it’s on, either

Ah ok, of course, I had to add it as an action:

add_action( 'wp_loaded', function() {
  remove_filter( 'link_name', array( WP_Typography::get_instance(), 'process' ), 9999 );
});

Thanks, though that doesn’t seem to be working for me.

Thanks Pepe. Where would this code go? In my themes functions.php?