Merging two queries

[smizmar]

This must be easy enough, but I'm a noob so go easy on me, please :-)

 

I have two pieces of code and they're working well on their own. All I need is to put these two conditions into one query.

 

The first one:

<?php
function childtheme_cat_limited_blog( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'events_categories', 'mycategory1' );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'childtheme_cat_limited_blog' );
?>

And the second:

<?php
function childtheme_cat_limited_blog( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'category_name', 'mycategory2' );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'childtheme_cat_limited_blog' );
?>

I'm sure it's a piece a cake for you guys, but I can't figure it out for the life of me, so any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thank you!

 

(My goal is here to display posts from two categories on a homepage of a Wordpress site, but to complicate things the two categories are from two different post types.)

[Ch0cu3r]

Not a wordpress user but does the following work?

function childtheme_cat_limited_blog( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'events_categories', 'mycategory1' );
        $query->set( 'category_name', 'mycategory2' );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'childtheme_cat_limited_blog' );

[smizmar]

Nope, that was the first thing I've tried. No error message, but the result is an empty page :-(

Thanks for your reply though! :-)

[maxxd]

Try this:

function childtheme_cat_limited_blog( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        return $query;
    }
    $query->set( 'events_categories', 'mycategory1' );
    $query->set( 'category_name', 'mycategory2' );
    return $query;
}
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'childtheme_cat_limited_blog' );

I'm not sure if events categories is a custom taxonomy or not - if it is, I'm not sure the above will work, but there are ways around that too so post back here if it doesn't work.

[Fedral144]

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