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Asked: 2026-06-15T08:59:12+00:00

I’m trying to show latest Post Excerpt, Post Title and Featured Image on an

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I’m trying to show latest Post Excerpt, Post Title and Featured Image on an ASP page. To simplify the query I add the Permalink as a custom field for each Post. I have a query that gets all except Featured Image and I have another query that gets Featured image but I can’t work out how to merge them into one query.

// Gets Post Excerpt and Post Title

SELECT
 wp_posts.id, 
 wp_posts.post_title, 
 wp_postmeta.meta_value, 
 wp_postmeta.meta_key, 
 wp_posts.post_excerpt 
 FROM 
 wp_postmeta 
 INNER JOIN wp_posts p ON (wp_postmeta.post_id = wp_posts.ID) 
 WHERE post_id IN (
 SELECT wp_posts.id 
 FROM wp_posts 
 WHERE post_type = 'post' 
 AND post_status = 'publish' 
 AND meta_key = 'my_permalink' 
 ORDER BY post_date, wp_posts.id
 ) 
 ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC, wp_postmeta.post_id 
 LIMIT 2

// Gets Featured Images for a Post

 SELECT p.*
      FROM wp_postmeta AS pm
     INNER JOIN wp_posts AS p ON pm.meta_value=p.ID 
     WHERE pm.post_id = $ID
       AND pm.meta_key = '_thumbnail_id' 
     ORDER BY p.post_date DESC

Can anyone help me merge these queries? Thanks.

Sample data to be returned:
ID | post_title | post_excerpt | meta_value_my_permalink | featured_image_guid

** UPDATE *
I’ve managed to get the following which works fine except I can’t get more that one row as I get an error when I try and use ‘IN’ in a subquery
e.g. pm2.post_id IN (SELECT wp_posts.id FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = ‘post’ AND post_status = ‘publish’ ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 2)

SELECT 
  p.post_title,
  p.post_excerpt,
  pm.meta_value AS permalink,
  p2.guid as thumbnail,
  p2.post_title as image_alt
FROM
  wp_postmeta pm
  INNER JOIN wp_posts p ON (pm.post_id = p.ID),
  wp_postmeta pm2
  INNER JOIN wp_posts p2 ON (pm2.meta_value = p2.ID)
WHERE
  pm.post_id = (SELECT wp_posts.id FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = 'post' AND post_status = 'publish' ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 1) AND 
  pm.meta_key = 'my_permalink' AND 
  pm2.post_id = (SELECT wp_posts.id FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = 'post' AND post_status = 'publish' ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 1) AND 
  pm2.meta_key = '_thumbnail_id'
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  1. Editorial Team

    A bunch of joins and a view as the subquery has given me what I need.

    SELECT 
  p.post_title,
  p.post_excerpt,
  pm.meta_value AS permalink,
  p2.guid AS thumbnail,
  p2.post_title AS thumbnail_alt
FROM
  wp_postmeta pm
  INNER JOIN wp_posts p ON (pm.post_id = p.ID)
  INNER JOIN wp_postmeta pm2 ON (pm2.post_id = p.ID)
  INNER JOIN wp_posts p2 ON (pm2.meta_value = p2.ID)
WHERE
  pm.meta_key = 'my_permalink' AND
  pm2.meta_key = '_thumbnail_id' AND 
  p.ID IN (SELECT * FROM vwLatestPostIds)
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