Custom post type queries in Wordpress - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to query posts of a custom post type named 'book'.

Wordpress

<?php
$args = array('post_type' => '[1]');
$query = new WP_Query($args);
?>

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Apage

Bpost

Cbook

Dproduct

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'post' instead of the custom post type name.

Using 'page' which queries pages, not custom posts.

The 'post_type' argument specifies which type of posts to query. Using 'book' queries the custom post type named 'book'.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to get only published posts of the custom post type 'movie'.

Wordpress

<?php
$args = array('post_type' => 'movie', 'post_status' => '[1]');
$query = new WP_Query($args);
?>

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Apublish

Bpending

Cprivate

Ddraft

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using 'draft' which returns unpublished posts.

Using 'private' which returns posts visible only to admins.

The 'post_status' argument filters posts by their status. 'publish' means only published posts are returned.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to query 'event' posts ordered by date descending.

Wordpress

<?php
$args = array(
  'post_type' => 'event',
  'orderby' => '[1]',
  'order' => 'DESC'
);
$query = new WP_Query($args);
?>

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Adate

Btitle

Cmenu_order

Dauthor

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'title' which orders alphabetically by title.

Using 'author' which orders by author name.

To order posts by their published date, use 'orderby' => 'date'.

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hard

Fill both blanks to query 'product' posts with a meta key 'price' greater than 20.

Wordpress

<?php
$args = array(
  'post_type' => 'product',
  'meta_query' => array(
    array(
      'key' => '[1]',
      'value' => 20,
      'compare' => '[2]'
    )
  )
);
$query = new WP_Query($args);
?>

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Aprice

B>

C<

Dcost

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'cost' instead of 'price' as meta key.

Using '<' which filters for prices less than 20.

The 'meta_query' filters posts by custom fields. Use 'price' as the key and '>' to get prices greater than 20.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to query 'recipe' posts published after January 1, 2023, ordered by date ascending.

Wordpress

<?php
$args = array(
  'post_type' => '[1]',
  'date_query' => array(
    array(
      'after' => '[2]'
    )
  ),
  'orderby' => 'date',
  'order' => '[3]'
);
$query = new WP_Query($args);
?>

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Arecipe

B2023-01-01

CASC

DDESC

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'DESC' order which sorts newest first instead of oldest.

Using wrong date format or post type.

Set 'post_type' to 'recipe', 'after' date to '2023-01-01', and 'order' to 'ASC' for ascending date order.