Querying both pages and posts

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I am building an “advent calendar” for a client and they are wanting a combination of specific pages and custom posts appearing on the front page, in a specific order.

Things that need to be retrieved are Title, Excerpt (or Content up to ), Permalink, Featured Image and Custom Fields…

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What’s the best way to go about retrieving these from the database? A custom SQL query? Some sort of Walker? A complicated Menu?

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  1. Use get_posts() or filter 'pre_get_posts' on the front page.

    Sample code for get_posts():

    $my_post_array = get_posts( 
    array ( 
        'post_type' => array ( 'post', 'custom_type' ) 
    ) 
);

foreach ( $my_post_array as $post )
{
    // do something awesome …
}

    There are also parameters for a custom order by meta fields and so on. A filter on 'pre_get_posts' can do the same and more. It is just not as easy to read.

  2. I ended up specifying the posts, pages and custom posts in a custom Navigation menu, and created a Custom Walker to output the right information.