I've have two sql queries which I'm trying to combine
The first:
SELECT * FROM wp_posts
JOIN wp_postmeta on (post_id=ID)
WHERE meta_key = "packageID" and meta_value = 1
ORDER BY post_date limit 50
Joins the wordpress wp_post table to the wp_postmeta and gets all the posts meeting with packageID = 1 (I think it might be an inelegant way of doing it but it works)
The second
SELECT * FROM wp_postmeta
JOIN wp_posts ON (meta_value=ID)
WHERE post_id = 2110
AND meta_key = '_thumbnail_id'
again joins the wp_post table to the wp_postmeta table, so for the post with the id 2110 it successfully gets the thumbnail for that posts. NB 2110 is just an example of an id
In Wordpress a thumbnail is a kind of post. So in this example the text which constitutes post 2110 is a associated with post 2115 - the latter being the thumbnail
What I'm trying to do is get the list as in the first query but also get thumbnails associated with each post
I think I need two joins but I can't see how to do it (being an sql beginner)
NB this will be in a script outside Wordpress so I can't use Wordpress's built-in functions
You can try this one,if there are more than one thumbnails for the post you can get the list of thumbnails separated by comma
SELECT
*,
(SELECT
GROUP_CONCAT(meta_value)
FROM
wp_postmeta
WHERE post_id = wp.ID
AND wpm.meta_key = "_thumbnail_id") AS `thumbnails`
FROM
wp_posts wp
JOIN wp_postmeta wpm
ON (wpm.post_id = wp.ID)
WHERE wpm.meta_key = "packageID"
AND wpm.meta_value = 1
ORDER BY wp.post_date
LIMIT 50
Note : GROUP_CONCAT has a limit to concat characters but you
can increase this limit
To get only one thumbnail you can try this
SELECT
*,
(SELECT
(meta_value)
FROM
wp_postmeta
WHERE post_id = wp.ID
AND wpm.meta_key = "_thumbnail_id" LIMIT 1)
FROM
wp_posts wp
JOIN wp_postmeta wpm
ON (wpm.post_id = wp.ID)
WHERE wpm.meta_key = "packageID"
AND wpm.meta_value = 1
ORDER BY wp.post_date
LIMIT 50
try with the following code
SELECT * FROM wp_posts wp JOIN wp_postmeta wm on (wp.post_id=wm.ID) WHERE wp.meta_key = "packageID" and wp.meta_value = 1 ORDER BY wp.post_date limit 50;
use proper alias and try it.
Try using the post_type column. The attachments have a post_type of 'attachment'. I can further explain if needed.
Also the post to which the thumbnail is attached to will be in the column post_parent.
global $wpdb;
$query7 = "SELECT distinct wp_postmeta.meta_value, wp_postmeta.meta_key, wp_posts.ID
FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id)
INNER JOIN wp_postmeta AS mt1 ON (wp_posts.ID = mt1.post_id)
WHERE wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id
AND wp_posts.post_status = 'publish'
AND wp_postmeta.meta_key = 'packageID'
AND wp_postmeta.meta_value = 1
AND (mt1.meta_key LIKE '_thumbnail_id')
$output = $wpdb->get_results( $query7 );
Use join with different aliases when joining same table more than once.
Hope this helps.
Try this
SELECT * FROM wp_posts P1
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta M1 ON (M1.post_id=P1.ID)
WHERE (M1.meta_key = "packageID" and M1.meta_value = 1 )
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta M2 ON (M2.meta_key=P1.ID AND M2.meta_key = '_thumbnail_id')
LEFT JOIN wp_posts P2 ON (M2.meta_value=P2.ID)
ORDER BY P1.post_date limit 50