How to 'query' a Custom Post Type

[Ailsa_C]

Hi,
I’m trying to create a shortcode which will pull content from a custom post type into a page. The below works perfect if I want to pull a page into a page but not my custom post type into a page. I guess i have to ‘query’ my custom post type which is called ‘speakers’? but I don’t know how to alter the code to do that (as i’m useless at php…can merely copy and paste!)
Many thanks.

` // extract atts and assign to array
extract(shortcode_atts(array(
“page” => ” // default value could be placed here
), $atts));

// if a page id is specified, then run query
if (!empty($page)) {
$pageContent = new WP_query();
$pageContent->query(array(‘page_id’ => $page));
while ($pageContent->have_posts()) : $pageContent->the_post();
// assign the content to $output
$output = get_the_content();
endwhile;
}

return $output;
}
add_shortcode(‘pa_insert’, ‘pa_insertPage’);`

[Senff]

A very simple query for a custom post type would be something like this:

$custquery = new WP_query (
    array(
    'post_type'=> 'speakers',
    'posts_per_page' => 5
    )
);

while ( $custquery -> have_posts() ) : $custquery -> the_post();

    echo the_title();
    echo the_content();

endwhile;   

wp_reset_query();               

[Ailsa_C]

Hi Senff,
I put that code in but it doesn’t make any difference -although I’m so bad at php I wouldn’t even know where to put it – I just pasted it in before:
// if a page id is specified, then run query

Maybe I should have removed something too?

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