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WordPress

Shawn Mathew
Shawn Mathew
6,574 Points
Posted by Shawn Mathew
Shawn Mathew
6,574 Points

How To Build a Wordpress Theme Project

Hello All,

I'm going thru the "How to Build A Wordpress Theme" project and am getting stuck at the displaying custom post types portion. Here is the code for my work.php file:

<?php 

/* 
Template Name: Work Page
*/

get_header(); ?>

<p>This is the work.php file.</p>

<?php 

    $args = array(
        'post-type' => 'work'
        );

    $the_query = new WP_Query( $args );

?>

<?php if( $the_query->have_posts() ): while( $the_query->have_posts() ): $the_query->the_post(); ?>

    <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
    <?php the_field( 'description' ); ?>
    <hr>

<?php endwhile; else: ?>

    <p>There are no posts or pages.</p>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

This does not return the posts from the custom post type 'Work' but instead displays the regular posts from the blog page. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks for any help!

1 Answer

Shawn Mathew
Shawn Mathew
6,574 Points
Shawn Mathew
Shawn Mathew
6,574 Points

Sorry All,

This was a simple syntax error, I was using "post-type" instead of "post_type".