id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,focuses 48678,Problem with $tag V5.3,pajtim,,"Hi me and many others have a problem with the latest wordpress update. This is about $tag. $tag does not work and gives me this message: {{{ [17-Nov-2019 01:15:14 UTC] PHP Warning: array_map(): Argument #2 should be an array in /home/name/public_html/web/wp-includes/class-wp-query.php on line 2069 [17-Nov-2019 01:15:14 UTC] PHP Warning: implode(): Invalid arguments passed in /home/name/public_html/web/wp-includes/class-wp-query.php on line 2069 [17-Nov-2019 01:15:14 UTC] WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near ') AND ( wpuw_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id IN (9) ) AND ( wpuw_postm' at line 1 for query SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wpuw_posts.ID FROM wpuw_posts LEFT JOIN wpuw_term_relationships ON (wpuw_posts.ID = wpuw_term_relationships.object_id) INNER JOIN wpuw_postmeta ON ( wpuw_posts.ID = wpuw_postmeta.post_id ) WHERE 1=1 AND wpuw_posts.ID NOT IN () AND ( wpuw_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id IN (9) ) AND ( wpuw_postmeta.meta_key = 'ecpt_toparticle' ) AND wpuw_posts.post_type = 'post' AND (wpuw_posts.post_status = 'publish' OR wpuw_posts.post_status = 'private') GROUP BY wpuw_posts.ID ORDER BY wpuw_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 5 made by require('wp-blog-header.php'), require_once('wp-includes/template-loader.php'), include('/themes/mydesign/category.php'), WP_Query->__construct, WP_Query->query, WP_Query->get_posts }}} In this situation the select does not work in TAG: {{{ }}} var_dump($cat); return Nothing and var_dump($tag); return Category. In category.php code: {{{ 'ecpt_toparticle', 'showposts' => 5, 'category__in' => $cat, 'post__not_in' => $tag ); $sticky_query = new WP_Query( $args ); while ( $sticky_query->have_posts() ) : $sticky_query->the_post(); ?> }}} In this case I have returned wordpress 5.2.4 Thanks, Pajtim ",defect (bug),closed,normal,,Query,5.3,normal,invalid,,,