Reply To: Position 9 posts in grid based on Options page & Have timed posts work

• John Huebner

• April 8, 2021 at 8:13 am

Following along the lines of what I described above

$top = array(); // holds values from options page fields
$top_ids = array(); // will hold id values for query
for ($i=1; $i<10; $i++) {
  // assumes fields are post object fields that returns Post Object
  $value =  get_field('kiemelt'.$i, 'option');
  if (!empty($value)) {
    // populate top array for this position
    $top[$i] = $value;
    $top_ids[] = $value->ID;
  }
}

// query to get most recent 9 posts excluding top posts
$args = array(
  'post_type' => array('cikkek', 'mti'),
  'posts_per_page' => 9,
  'orderby' => 'date',
  'order' => 'DESC'
);
if (!empty($top_ids)) {
  $args['post__not_in'] = $top_ids;
}
$posts = get_posts($args);

$next_post = 0;
for ($i=1; $i<10; $i++) {
  $post = false;
  if (!empty($top[$i])) {
    $post = $top[$i];
  } elseif (!empty($posts[$next_post])) {
    // this elseif statement also takes into account
    // that query may not return 9 posts
    $post = $posts[$next_post];
    $next_post++;
  }
  if (!empty($post)) {
    setup_postdata($post);
    // show post
  }
}
wp_reset_postdata();