Exclude comments from a WP_Query object?
I have noticed that the default WP_Query object also contains all of a post's comments.
global $wp_query;
print_r($wp_query-comments);
// Prints an object containing all of a post's comments
From my understanding, WordPress somehow combines a post query and a comments query into one WP_Query
object, and then displays a post's comments by reading the $wp_query-comments
object.
However, I need to query comments and order them by passing advanced query args. So I use WP_Comment_Query
to create a new object that contains all of a post's comments in the order I need them.
$args = array(
'post_id' = get_the_ID(),
'order' = 'ASC'
);
$comments_query = new WP_Comment_Query;
$comments = $comments_query-query($args);
print_r($comments);
// Prints an object containing all comments matching the query
But now it seems that using WP_Comment_Query
basically makes WordPress load all of a post's comments twice.
Obviously, from a performance perspective, this is undesirable, seeing as I don't actually use the default WP_Query
's comment object to display my comments.
So I'm wondering: Is it possible to prevent the WP_Query
from grabbing a post's comments, so that I can later grab them 'manually' using WP_Comment_Query
? And so, preventing the same comments from being grabbed from the database twice?
Topic wp-comment-query wp-query comments Wordpress
Category Web