If you’ve profiled a WordPress archive page with Query Monitor, you’ve probably seen this pattern without knowing what it was: Two queries, back to back, for the exact same batch of post IDs. One fetches the posts. The second – often slower, despite doing “less” – fetches metadata nobody asked for. That second query is… Continue reading Optimize WP_Query Performance: Skipping Meta Cache Priming the Right Way
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Enterprise WordPress Performance: Smarter postmeta Key Design
Every WordPress developer has written a WP_Query with a meta_query argument. It feels natural. But at enterprise scale — hundreds of thousands of posts, millions of rows in wp_postmeta — those queries become some of the heaviest load your database carries. The good news: a significant slice of that cost is avoidable with a shift… Continue reading Enterprise WordPress Performance: Smarter postmeta Key Design
WordPress Query Basics
Show all posts from a custom post type WordPress has a small function get_posts() to do this job. You just need to set your arguments and pass that argument inside the function. It returns an array of latest posts. You can use foreach function to loop though the returned array. Show all posts for a… Continue reading WordPress Query Basics
Query to show related post
We developer survive each and everyday and always spent a lot of time in google to find a simple solution for our day to day problem. Show related post in a single post is one of them. Today I also spent more than one hour in google to find this solution for a custom post… Continue reading Query to show related post
Get category details by term ID
In a day to day development process, we need to display category details inside a post card or something else. In order to get single category details by their term ID you need to pass ID in the get_term_by() WordPress function. Below is the example. You need to place single category ID inside that function.… Continue reading Get category details by term ID