[wp-hackers] Function to get posts by meta

[Louy Alakkad]

Hello,

Well, when i need to do the same, I'm modifying the main query with the
'posts_where' filter, just like how it's done in
http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Queries
Thanks for the sharing anyway ;)

Cheers.

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Christian Gundersson <christian at buro2.se>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm writing a plugin for a client using custom post types and ran across a
> situation where I wanted to retrieve post data from posts that shared the
> same meta data (key and value). I didn't find anything in Wordpress core or
> by searching so I wrote a function for it myself and I'm wondering if it
> would be of any interest to anyone else.
>
> The function, as said, takes a meta key and a meta value as argument and
> then performs a search for posts that has that exact match. The return
> value
> is an array with the post data.
>
> The code is viewable on github: http://gist.github.com/506224
>
> I have two questions on this though.
>
> 1) Have I done the function properly? (I'm fairly new so I'd like some tips
> and hints to improve my coding skills on Wordpress)
>
> 2) Would this be of any interest for inclusion in Wordpress? And if not,
> why
> not?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards,
> //Christian, Büro 2
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