I have set up a query to search through some custom post types that I have set up. I can get it to show all the post so I know it is searching the custom post types that I want. But what I cant figure out is how to have it just return ONE post from each custom post type that I am searching.
Example: I have 4 custom post types. CPT1, CPT2, CPT3, CPT4. I want to get one post from CPT1, one post from CPT2, etc. etc. so that way in the loop it would be: title of CPT1, title of CPT2, etc etc.
Then I figured I could do a query for each custom post type and make it each have their own loop, but that seems like a lot of code for that. Thank you for any help in advanced.
This is the code I have now:
$mystate = get_state();
// args
$args = array(
'numberposts' => -1,
'post_type' => array('CPT1','CPT2','CPT3','CPT4'),
'meta_key' => 'state_420',
'meta_value' => $mystate,
'order' => 'ASC',
);
/ query
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
?>
<?php
if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : ?>
<?php
/* Start the Loop */
while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post();
/**
* Run the loop for the search to output the results.
* If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
* called content-search.php and that will be used instead.
*/
?>
<li style="display: inline-block;"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>, </li>
<?php
endwhile;
the_posts_pagination( array( 'mid_size' => 2 ) );
else :
get_template_part( 'template-parts/content', 'none' );
endif; ?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); // Restore global post data stomped by the_post(). ?>
