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WORDPRESS WP Query Taxonomy and Meta query shorthand/longhand methods
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custom-loop.php
// shorthand method
$args = array(
'meta_key' => 'custom-field-key',
'meta_value' => 'custom-field-value',
'taxonomy-name' => 'term-value'
);
// longhand method
$args = array(
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'key' => 'custom-field-key',
'value' => 'custom-field-value'
)
),
'tax_query' => array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'taxonomy-name',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => 'term-value'
)
)
);
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WORDPRESS WP Query Taxonomy and Meta Query
# WORDPRESS WP Query Taxonomy and Meta query
This shows the two alternate methods to running taxonomy and post meta paramaters within WP Query.
* Shorthand version only accepts one postmeta key
* Longhand version is the full method and has much more flexiblity for complex queries
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How about OR instead of AND?

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