get_posts() is a nice little function and is widely used within themes and plugins, but what most people don’t keep in mind is that there is at least one database query behind each of the calls. With taxonomy,category or meta queries it’s even more, so caching the result of this function can have quite an […]
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Retrieve list of latest posts or posts matching criteria.The defaults are as follows: ‘numberposts’ – Default is 5. Total number of posts to retrieve. ‘offset’ – Default is 0. See WP_Query::query() for more. ‘category’ – What category to pull the posts from. ‘orderby’ – Default is ‘post_date’. How to order the posts. ‘order’ – Default is ‘DESC’. The order to retrieve the posts. ‘include’ – See WP_Query::query() for more. ‘exclude’ – See WP_Query::query() for more. ‘meta_key’ – See WP_Query::query() for more. ‘meta_value’ – See WP_Query::query() for more. ‘post_type’ – Default is ‘post’. Can be ‘page’, or ‘attachment’ to name a few. ‘post_parent’ – The parent of the post or post type. ‘post_status’ – Default is ‘publish’. Post status to retrieve.
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