Pagination with custom queries in Wordpress - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to get the current page number for pagination.

Wordpress

$paged = (get_query_var('[1]')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

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Apaged

Bpage

Ccurrent_page

Dpagination

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Common Mistakes

Using 'page' instead of 'paged' causes pagination to not work correctly.

Using 'current_page' or 'pagination' are not recognized query vars.

The correct query variable to get the current page number in WordPress pagination is paged.

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medium

Complete the code to set the number of posts per page in the custom query.

Wordpress

$args = array('post_type' => 'post', 'posts_per_page' => [1], 'paged' => $paged);

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A'posts'

B'ten'

C0

D10

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Common Mistakes

Using a string like 'ten' instead of a number.

Setting posts_per_page to 0 disables posts.

The posts_per_page parameter expects an integer number of posts per page, like 10.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to properly create a new WP_Query object.

Wordpress

$custom_query = new WP_Query([1]);

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Aquery_args

B$args

Cargs

Dquery

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Common Mistakes

Using a variable name without the dollar sign causes a syntax error.

Using a wrong variable name that is not defined.

The WP_Query constructor requires a variable with the query arguments, which is $args in this case.

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hard

Fill both blanks to correctly display pagination links for the custom query.

Wordpress

echo paginate_links(array('total' => [1]->max_num_pages, 'current' => [2]));

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A$custom_query

B$paged

C$args

D$query

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Common Mistakes

Using the wrong variable for total pages causes pagination to not show correctly.

Passing the wrong current page number breaks pagination navigation.

The total parameter needs the max number of pages from the custom query object, and current is the current page number.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to reset the post data after the custom query loop.

Wordpress

if ([1]->have_posts()) {
  while ([2]->have_posts()) {
    [3]->the_post();
    // Your loop code here
  }
  wp_reset_postdata();
}

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A$custom_query

B$query

D$args

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using different variable names causes errors in the loop.

Not calling wp_reset_postdata() after the loop can break other queries.

Use the same custom query object $custom_query to check posts and set up post data in the loop.