Question

I am trying to get the wp posts using custom query. Here is sql query:

SELECT p.*, IFNULL(SUM(vote), 0) AS vote_count, CAST(m.meta_value AS SIGNED) AS idea_count
FROM wp_posts p
INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships r ON p.ID=r.object_id
INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy t ON t.term_taxonomy_id=r.term_taxonomy_id AND t.taxonomy='category'
LEFT JOIN wp_wdpv_post_votes v ON v.post_id=p.ID
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta m ON m.post_id=p.ID AND m.meta_key='ideas_count'
WHERE p.post_status='publish' AND p.post_type='post' AND t.term_id='5'
GROUP BY p.ID
ORDER BY p.ID DESC
LIMIT 0, 8

This sql query is working fine. But now i have another case, Where I want show the posts using this query but only the posts which does not have specific meta key. Meta key to filter is

'private_spaces_post'

This could be specific to mysql query. But i will be very thankful if someone can give me a solution for this problem.

Answer 1

You can LEFT JOIN against a subquery which only returns those that do have private_spaces_post, and look for NULLs

SELECT p.*, IFNULL(SUM(vote), 0) AS vote_count, CAST(m.meta_value AS SIGNED) AS idea_count
FROM wp_posts p
  INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships r ON p.ID=r.object_id
  INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy t ON t.term_taxonomy_id=r.term_taxonomy_id AND t.taxonomy='category'
  LEFT JOIN wp_wdpv_post_votes v ON v.post_id=p.ID
  LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta m ON m.post_id=p.ID AND m.meta_key='ideas_count'
  /* LEFT JOIN subquery returning only ids that *do* have the meta key */
  LEFT JOIN (
    SELECT post_id FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key='private_spaces_post'
  ) psp ON p.ID = psp.post_id
WHERE p.post_status='publish' AND p.post_type='post' AND t.term_id='5'
  /* And find post ids from the main table that *don't* have a match in the subquery (LEFT JOIN returns NULL) */
  AND psp.post_id IS NULL
GROUP BY p.ID
ORDER BY p.ID DESC
LIMIT 0, 8