I'm using query_posts to get a list of most popular posts. I'm using several custom post types, and instead of including all of them in the query, I would like a query that just gets all of them, also if I create more.

This is what I have:

query_posts(array( 'meta_key' => 'post_views_count', 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num', 'order' => 'DESC', 'post_type' => array('posttype1', 'postype2', 'posttype3') ) );

If I don't include the post_type, it only gets the standard post type, post. Does anyone have an idea?

3 Answers

You can use 'post_type' => 'any' for fetching from all post types. See this documentation.

Note: It is highly recommended to use WP_Query rather than query_posts.

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'post_type' => 'any',

This gets all posts except revisions.

So your query would be:

query_posts(array( 'post_type' => 'any', 'meta_key' => 'post_views_count', 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num', 'order' => 'DESC', 'post_type' => array('posttype1', 'postype2', 'posttype3') ) );
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If you want to use get_posts(), the only work around is to use 'post_type' => get_post_types()

Example that returns ALL posts of ANY post type:

$posts = get_posts([ 'post_type' => get_post_types(), 'post_status' => 'publish', 'numberposts' => -1, ]);