Question

I recently added post formats to my WordPress theme – on the blog page its fine as they are all styled accordingly. However on my home page template I only want to show ‘standard’ posts formats (no links, galleries, audio, video etc.).

In my theme options I can decide how many posts to display on the front page which is what ‘dft_recent_number’ is for.

Does anybody know how I can change the code below to exclude all but ‘standard’ post formats?

<?php 
$query = new WP_Query();
    $query->query('posts_per_page='.get_option('dft_recent_number'));

    //Get the total amount of posts
$post_count = $query->post_count;

    while ($query->have_posts()) : $query->the_post(); 

 ?>

Any help is much appreciated!

Answer 1

WP_Query does not seem to have a straightforward parameter for post_format.

From my quick research it appears that post formats are related through taxonomies. So, theoretically, using the taxonomy parameters should work.

$args = array(
    'tax_query' => array(
        array(
            'taxonomy' => 'post_format',
            'field' => 'slug',
            'terms' => 'post-format-standard',
        )
    )
);
$query = new WP_Query( $args );

Note: you’ll need to update the taxonomy names and slugs for your blog. This should be the names you set in your functions.php file.