Hey everybody,
first of all I only did a brief search on the forums to see if this was already asked since I am quite under time pressure on this project. If so please forgive me and just link me to the topic.
I need to create different pages that show only posts with a certain meta key – meta value combination.
Is this in some way possible with the existing templates or do I need to create new ones with extra options for this purpose?
I could also see this realized with custom fields on page creation but would need to know where to check for these values then.
Example:
A ‘popular’ page should only show post with
meta_key => ‘_status’,
meta_value => 2
Any help would be much appreciated!!
Oh and very nice work with the theme guys 😉
Best,
J
Update:
I tried to solve this using tags, so I created a popular tag to filter the posts that way. I put the tag slug in the ‘Filter by tag slug:’ field and updated the page.
However when I tried to view the page to see if it worked, it loaded forever and only just in time I could restart my apache and mysql it as it was nearly getting my server down, my other sites were already unreachable.
Any ideas what happened there?
Best,
J
I solved this for now. I am using categories for the different pages as a solution. If anybody comes up with how to use meta it would still be interesting though 😉
Hi,
tags should have worked, I’ve tested the filter and it works as expected. It may be that you either have a lot of content or the database configuration is not good.
This is the function that renders our loops on the templates http://screencast.com/t/flqgW87f . The functions above that is used by the blocks.
Sorry for the delay,
Radu O.
Hi Radu,
no problem with the delay as it is working with the categories just fine. It may actually be the amount of content, since we have quite a large database.
Thank you for the reply anyways!
Best,
J
