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Customizing the display of custom post types

Currently I have a custom post type and I would like to have some different version of it based on user input - so for example when creating a post the user can select if the post is Featured or Free ...
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updating one custom meta field only

i am trying to update only one custom field that is store in serialized form. By updating that field my other custom meta fields becomes blank/empty. how can i update only a specific meta value ...
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Repeatable custom meta select boxes

I am working on meta fields for a custom post type storing match data. I have two sepearte meta boxes one which the team and the score are chosen and the values are submitted. The second takes that ...
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WP Views - filter by custom fields in post type child

I am a junior WP programmer and I got stucked on creating a WP types filter. I have to solve the following task: I have a post type called trips (with multiple trips - trip A, B, C) Post type ...
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Not sure why my custom post meta field isn't saving

I'm having trouble getting my custom post meta field to save and I'm not quite sure why. I was following the tutorial located at ...
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Linking custom post types to posts and vice versa

Im developing a smaller wp solution and we have both blog posts and products (custom post types) Id like to link them together so when you read blog posts it will suggest relevant products (that we ...
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Synch Custom Post Types (and Custom Fields, Cats, etc.) Between WordPress Sites

I've built two WordPress sites. One is public site--people go to it, view my content, etc. The other site is a private course catalog. In the course catalog I have 3 custom post types. The content of ...
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Create shortcode for list of custom post titles with custom fields alongside

I'm stumped. I've looked at various sites but haven't found the exact code I need. Basically I want to create a list of custom post titles with the date from one of the custom fields for that post ...
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Display custom posts in checkbox list

I am working in a WordPress backend design and I would like to know if is there any function like wp_categories_checklist but for posts. I have an issue here: ...
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Custom field default value with counter

I have a custom post type called machine and a custom field 'reference_number' what I want is to add a default value to the custom field when creating a new machine and show this value before the ...
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Automatically add a character to field in edit post page

Currently I am facing an issue involving making two plugins work well together. I am using a form plugin called formidable to create a new location custom post (custom post was made from a plugin ...
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Fields for different parts of a page

I'm going to use WordPress to manage a mainly static website. Some of the pages (like the typical about us) have some paragraphs that should be editable from the admin panel. The thing is, I don't ...
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Display posts order by custom post in a dropdown menu

In my WordPress backend I have some custom posts and, in one of them, I want to display in a dropdown field some posts related with but ordered by post type. Iwant to display something like this. ...
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Automatically fill custom field value on post publish/update

I've searched around a bit, and I'm having trouble finding an answer to this question. What I'm trying to do is automatically fill a custom field when a post (custom post type) is updated or ...
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Save Custom Fields

I am working in a new project using WordPress. I have created some Custom Posts and now I have to relate some custom posts like categories. I created a custom dropdown menu inside the custom posts. ...
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Search that will look in custom field, post title and post content

I am looking for a way to perform a search, and while performing the search, it checks a custom field named keywords, the post title and the post content. If any of those fields have results like what ...
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Problem On Retrieving Post Meta Data on Custom Column [closed]

I am trying to add Custom post Metadata to a Custom Column. The meta-box has two text fields as Price and Company but When I publish a new post it just shows values from company in Price column and ...
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Rewrite custom post type url's adding meta box values

I've got these custom post types (CPT) and meta boxes: Movies (CPT) Genre (Meta box) Genres (CPT) If one movie is called Die hard then I want the permalink to be: /genres/action/die-hard This ...
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Admin Area Custom Type Search By Meta Fields Without Title & Content

I have a custom post type that uses several meta fields. In the admin area I would like to be able to search by those meta fields. I have implemented this currently in my functions.php with this code: ...
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Filtering a WP_Query meta_query by numeric values isn't working

That was a very dense title. I have a custom post type "event" which has a Date/Time picker field "event_date" thanks to the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. This Date/Time picker saves a UNIX ...
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Frontend posting - everything saves other than checkboxes?

I have a form on the frontend of Wordpress which is saving all fields except a checkbox array. It displays and saves the correct values if I tick the boxes in the backend post editor, and the ticks ...
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Change Post Meta via AJAX from the posts list table

I've been looking around for this for a while but haven't found anything as of yet. I have a custom post type - "books" and this post type has a custom meta field of "availability". I would like to ...
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Use Custom Post Type to as Custom Field

I am newbie of wordpress as well php programming. I want to create a custom post type for store that having all store names and it is working. Now I want to fetch the all stores in select box in ...
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Query recent posts by author

I'm fairly new to wordpress but trying to get recent posts by a specific author. The following code displays only most recent bog posts. I am using a custom field to get the author ID. EDIT by ...
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Why is my select meta data not saving?

I am working on a site at the moment where I need to save several different types of meta data for a custom post type. At present I have a text input that is saving with no problem but am struggling ...
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Is it possible to activate customfield 'text description' upon activating the customfield 'checkbox'?

I'm trying to find a solution how to activate a another customfield in WordPress pages when the selectbox is selected. This is the script to simply show the customfield 'checkbox' in wordpress page ...
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Create a generic post type and define its metadata via another one used for categorization

Ok, I would like to share with you an idea I had and ask you what do you think about it and possible drawbacks I'm not able to forsee. I'm building a database for an association with many kind of ...
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404 on Pages for Custom Post Type & Query_Posts

It took me quite a while to find a good solution for ordering a custom post type by two custom meta keys. When I finally got it working, I found out the pagination no longer works. I've tried dozens ...
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Custom post type and custom taxonomy archive inaccessible

I've created some custom post type let say: post_type_1 post_type_2 Those post types are related to each other, every post_type_1 has parent of many post_type_2. Then I created a custom taxonomy ...
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Custom Post Type Navigation on Custom Field

I'm working on a Custom Post Type sorted on a Custom Field. No problem when I list out the posts. But when I go to the single post page for one of these, I want the Prev and Next navigation links to ...
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How can I add remote content like MP3 URLs to the media library?

Currently am storing the URLs in post custom fields but would it be better to move the custom field links to media library so that it would be easier to assign to certain users. What am trying to do ...
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Remove wrong dashes from get_the_title()

I have a particular CPT post that has a dash (-) in its title. I copy this title in a variable $var using get_the_title() then I create a custom field somewhere else with a value equal to $var : ...
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Private feedback on users

I am trying to find a way for users to write private/anonymous feedback on each other (similar to ebay or amazon but private, and so that users can view feedback on them and feedback they have sent). ...
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Cache issue with WP_Query and custom field filtering

I have three separate WP_Queries on a page. Each of them return custom post type items that have a certain checkbox checked and then display one of those randomly. The checkbox has been added using ...
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List of Posts in a Custom Field

I have a question. I have a custom post type called Place. I have a situation that there can be place in place. I want to have a custom field parent_place where I could choose a parent of place. The ...
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Automatically populate a hierarchical taxonomy from a custom field

I've got a vexing how-to that I've not found any help on. I have a custom post type that has a custom field with a date in it (format: yyyy-mm-dd-t). When a post is published or edited, I would like ...
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Saving multiple Metabox contents

I'm putting together a fairly simple Custom Page for a friend on their WordPress site, but I'm having some real difficulties getting the contents of the Metaboxes to save correctly. WordPress doesn't ...
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How to let users “collect” posts?

I have a post called "games" where I add information and review games. I want to add a way that users could add some posts to a collection. Something similar to "favorites". And then display the posts ...
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Set post title from two meta fields

In a custom post type I have post titles disabled, however in the list of posts and in the slug it just shows the title as "auto-draft". I want to automatically take two pieces of post-meta and make ...
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How to pull Magic Field items in a group by a specific permalink and not the list order?

I am currently making some fixes to a site that someone else built. They have a custom post type called 'News" within that is a group called 'Category List' with an image, title and description. The ...
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What do the numbers mean at the end of add_action('save_post')…?

I've seen on a few tutorials that there are numbers at the end of the call to save Custom Fields/Meta Boxes on the save_post hook. For example, in the WordPress Codex it gives the following example: ...
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Insert custom fields to a custom post type

I am creating a small blog about my trekking and camping experience. Since different experiences - like campsites, treks and tour operators - have different metadata, I have created a custom post ...
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Display Posts Query with IF function

I'm writing a template to display my custom posts types in a list. But I only want to have the post show if it has a value for one of my custom fields. I'll explain: My custom post type is "Faculty ...
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Settings API - save multiple tabs at once

In the attached screenshot you can see the structure of the theme options we are working with. There are 8 tabs and for each tab, we have created custom fields using code similar to what can be seen ...
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Admin Filter by custom field

I use this for make a filter for post in my admin, on a specific custom post type, but it don't work, the query don't update and i get an empty list add_action( 'pre_get_posts', ...
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Displaying Meta Box Image

I have some problems displaying info from my custom meta box in my custom post type single. I'm using Reusable Custom Wordpress Meta Boxes by Tammy Hart. I'm able to display the textfields using ...
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List upcoming events, ordered by date in a custom field

I want to display a list of events with dates in upcoming order. Ex: 23 March, 2013, 30 March, 2013 Below is the query I'm using to filter out posts from my database: query_posts( ...
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How to remove slug metabox from custom post type's page?

I just discovered a new meta field on the newly created custom post type page. The meta name is slug, and it's under the wp editor field. What's that, and how can I remove it?
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How to display custom post types by custom taxonomy in while loop?

I am using Posts 2 Posts to display a custom post type on a page. Document status, document author and feedback due date are custom fields. Package is a custom taxonomy. I want to display my custom ...
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Formatting custom meta box date from YYYY/MM/DD to a more readable alternative

QUESTION This is following a previous question that was graciously answered by Milo earlier here - How to sort CPT by custom meta value (date), and return posts month by month In short, I'm having ...

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