Caching any custom query using transients

Caching any custom query using transients

Is your theme using custom queries? If yes, you should definitely use the transients API to cache the queries. The following code shows how to cache a custom query. As you can see, there’s nothing complicated at all.

< ?php // Get any existing copy of our transient data if ( false === ( $special_query_results = get_transient( ‘special_query_results’ ) ) ) { // It wasn’t there, so regenerate the data and save the transient $special_query_results = new WP_Query( ‘cat=5&order=random&tag=tech&post_meta_key=thumbnail’ ); set_transient( ‘special_query_results’, $special_query_results ); } // Use the data like you would have normally… ?>

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