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Limit of char count in WP custom fields

does anyone of you know what is the limit of chars count which can be stored in to database via WP custom fields? Let's say that I would want to add to custom field 20 000 chars. Would it be problem?
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Remove old custom field after import

I have imported a set of posts to a new Wordpress install recently. This OLD set of posts had a set of custom fields attached to it (via post_meta using the ACF plugin). The new installation has ...
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Separate table or usermeta

We are creating custom fields for users like annual income, gender, city, country, etc. There are about 10 odd new fields. We will be importing approx. 30,000 records for each user in a month through ...
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What is the best way to store a few fields?

I'm researching what it would take to develop a custom Wordpress plugin. The plugin is a pretty small one. We just need to persist 2 fields of integer information. It's a pretty basic progress bar ...
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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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Adding Custom field in a signup form not working

I have used the following code in functions.php to add some custom field to my registration form and add it to the db in the wp_usermeta table. But dont know why it is not working. I am using a custom ...
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What is the advantage of the wp_options design pattern?

As we all know, a design pattern that is used frequently in Wordpress' DB code is the idea of persisting data for a particular object (blog/post/comment), indexed with a particular name or key. We ...
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Importing Data from a Non-WordPress database, into WP

I'm migrating data from a totally different database style into WP. The main issue I'm trying to wrap my head around is how to import any meta data, given that WP uses a key value pair style for meta ...
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How to delete custom field “suggestions” from dropdown list

When you use a standard custom field in WP you have to write the name of the cusotm fields the first time. The second time you use a custom field it sticks to the custom fields dropdown list. But, ...
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Front-end update_post_meta with ajax

as written in title I'm trying to update a post_meta using Ajax. Actually I'm a complete newbie to Ajax and how it works so, if it is possible, I would appreciate if someone could 'take me by hand' ...
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Adding custom field and querying from post table

I've been trying to figure this out for a while now. So I'm trying to add a custom field call "counter" to every single post. I try simply inserting the field "counter" to the post table. Every time a ...
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After moving my site from a dev subdomain, to root, all my custom meta data is gone

I just movde my site from a dev subdomain, to the root. I have extensive amounts of data saved in custom meta fields which I created with the WpAlchemy class. All of this data is not appearing in ...
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Edit Custom Database Tables in Wordpress

I have a site that uses custom database tables to manage info that is inserted by a process completely independent from Wordpress. The data from the table is used in the Wordpress site but it is not ...
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Leader board for game on homepage

I've built a simple game which is housed on my homepage. I'd like to create a leader board (a small results table) which displays the top three 3 scores. How would i insert/retrieve the score data ...
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Saving Custom Post types and fields to a custom table

I have a project in which I am trying to import a large amount of data into a WordPress installation and from that data, create pages on my site (as a custom post type). Since these pages will be ...
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importing data from non-wordpress mysql db

I have created an import file to get the articles from a non-wordpress db and bring them in as posts in wordpress, I am not sure how to bring over the thumbnail image into my custom field I defined as ...
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Custom post type or just use custom fields

I am turning a restaurants website into a wordpress website to allow for the customer to take over content changes. The restaurant has a menu that has categories like Baskets with different types. For ...
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Getting and calculating averge value of custom fields of the same tag

So basically i got this custom field value which is stored in $postrating - and under the database field customfield1. I want to grab the value of that field for all posts that have the tag currently ...
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Advice needed for importing custom field data and database structure

Looking for advice for the best method to accomplish the following. I have a custom page template with several custom fields/taxonomy. The data needed for these custom fields actually resides in ...