Post meta is a data set containing additional core as well as custom post information.
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Repeatable custom meta fields
I am working on creating custom meta boxes for the back-end of WordPress.
I would like to add a metabox with several fields, in my case an image upload and a text input, but with a button that can ...
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Metadata for a taxonomy - is there any WordPress way of doing this?
If I have a CPT "movies" I know I can have various taxonomies eg "Director", but how can I store further information such as "director's nationality" for any one particular director ... or is this ...
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Grouping related postmeta data via SQL query
I am using someone else's WP plugin which stores lots of related data in wp_postmeta using an "artificial key". So effectively we hijack wp_postmeta to create a nested relational database. So one row ...
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filtering custom post types via meta data drop down
I'm trying to add drop down filters (that are populated by terms that are in use) to a custom search page for "opportunities" or listings page. Currently I am doing this with taxonomies but doing this ...
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Up/Down voting system for Wordpress
Looking in all posts with keywords "voting system, upvote, downvote", I can't find a satisfying solution for this issue, except accepting one of the available plugins, spend a lot of time undersanding ...
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What is an efficient way to query based on post_meta?
The problem I am having is when I allow users to filter posts it overpowers the database and things run extremely slow. I am unsure what the best way to query posts using meta values is. My site has a ...
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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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Problem with custom fields for custom meta data
I'm trying to fix an problem in custom fields for meta data information. I already added the code to add some code:
add_action("admin_init", "admin_init");
function admin_init(){
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WP_query posts closest to todays date
I have written an wp query which I would like to order in a bit of a complicated way. Some posts have a meta value 'the_date' which is an end date for the post. I would like to order posts in date and ...
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Modify custom field from front end
If I need to manage a custom field under wordpress, but not from the admin area. In other words, I need that users modify the content of post custom fields from front end. What is the way to do so?
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How can I filter posts by post_parent in the admin?
I have followed this tutorial and this one to add a custom column to a custom post type edit screen, showing the post parent of each post. My question:
How can I make the post parent clickable just ...
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Custom query with category exclusion and post-meta “whitelist”
I have two widgets, one shows News while the other shows everything except News (We'll call the second one Blog). The blog portion is currently working correctly.
The News posts are either ...
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_wp_attachment_metadata necessary for importing images into wp_postmeta table
I'm working on a project to convert an older custom developed PHP site into a WordPress site.
One of the problems I'm trying to figure out is how to import all the images from the old site and ...
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Adding an orderby filter, casting postmeta with multiple keys
I am using this filter to sort my query by a date field stored as text (legacy data)
add_filter( 'posts_orderby', 'my_posts_orderby_date', 10, 2 );
function my_posts_orderby_date( $orderby, $query ) ...
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How do I use wp_query for WordPress search?
I would like to create a custom search form to search posts based on the values of about 4 custom fields. I tried using wp_query to achieve this but so far my biggest problem is that the I don't get ...
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How to get custom image field of specific post id
I have a page where I'm pulling in content from another post, outside of the loop.
I've been successfull at getting the content of the specified post, but I cannot get the image from a custom field ...
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How to update/delete array in post meta value?
I using post meta like..
$meta = get_post_meta(99,'_mymeta',true);
$value = $meta['somekey'];
echo $value;
But how to update $meta['somekey'] to some another value ?
How to use update_post_meta to ...
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Custom WP_Query for WordPress Search Results with meta_query
I am using a custom query to generate my search results. The code I am using works perfectly without the meta_query variables in my arguments array.
I am trying to compare multiple custom fields with ...
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New Table vs Post / Comment Meta
I am working on theme where I am adding vote functionality to comments and posts. What should I use, meta tables or create a new table?
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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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Create action running on trashed_post hook to modify post_meta value
I have a custom post type that always do math operation to its post_meta and other custom post type post_meta.
For example:
post-type 1 = cpt_product_order
post-type 1 post_meta = ...
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Copying Custom Meta Values from existing post to a duplicate post
I'm trying to revise an existing WP plugin BU Versions to accept different custom meta field values from items I've set-up using the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin.
BU Versions will copy over ...
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Custom Form Data save after Login User
This is form on my first page. I have to manage if user is not logged in, in that Case after submit form action is Login Page.
<?php/** Template Name: Form */
get_header(); ?>
<form ...
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Auto save title as custom meta field value
I create a custom post type where I removed the "Title", instead I want to use one of my custom meta value to become the title. This is just to make sure the title look good.
Know that the post ...
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hide an author_meta on a post if the Co-author function is active
I want to hide an author_meta on a post if the Co-author function is active on a post.
For example: This is how it looks with one author
By Author Name | Contributor Published: 05/03/2013 2:00 ...
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Retrieve post data via WPDB class
I'm trying to figure out doing a custom query using the $wpdb Object.
I have custom type posts, event_posts, that have meta data, images, as well as event dates which are input in the post with the ...
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Wordpress custom field being lost on wp_update_post, with a twist
I'm using wp_update_post to programmatically add a title and tags to posts from the front end. I'm running into a hair-tearing issue with custom fields in the process: one of the two custom fields ...
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How to implement a Google map store locator
I have followed the following Google developer doc about creating a store locator usng PHP & MySql.
https://developers.google.com/maps/articles/phpsqlsearch_v3
I have this working but now I ...
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get meta value from page query
I need to check each page to see if it has a default template or another template assigned. If it's default, I want to do X if it's not, then I will do Y. Problem I found is that the query is not ...
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Wordpress Menu Disappears when $query->query_vars['meta_key'] is set
I've set some meta variables on my WP posts. I want to be able to sort by these variables, and everything is working great except when I sort by either "views" or "likes". When I sort by either of ...
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unable to save post meta on single field with multiple selects
I set up two select boxes in one meta field by putting two arrays inside the 'options' array of my callback. The HTML is outputting fine, but the meta is not being saved to the database...
Here is a ...
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Redirect blog page to latest post?
How can I make it so when the blog link in the nav bar is clicked it redirects to the most recent post?
I know how to display just the latest post on the blog page, but I want it to actually redirect ...
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Display meta data from a custom field within plugin Category Grid View Gallery
I am using this plugin, which creates a gallery of posts, fetching a thumbnail and the titles of the posts displayed in it.
I have enabled Custom Fields, and have created (and filled in values) a ...
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Get specific custom field keys from a post and put into an array
I have the following code to look up the longitude and latitude based off of a custom field upon saving the post. My address fields (street_1, city and state) are separate. I have searched and thought ...
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Set attached to state
In the media library every attachment post has an "Attached to" column. I've developed a plugin that adds author profile and a facebook like banner image.
I now discovered that the attachment posts, ...
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Get post category as a separate string and url
I need to figure out how to get post category as a string and link, both separate from each other.
So the return would be something like:
Uncategorized
http://link-to-the-category.com
however both ...
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How to insert multiple postmeta values with one query?
I have a custom script/plugin I am using for myself that creates a post along with some postmeta information. Right now, I have multiple $wpdb->insert, but I would like to condense this down into ...
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Best way to achieve multiple links in a post title
Usually I would get a post title no problem, however now I need to achieve something like this:
The Example is written for this title
As you can see two words are links in the title, another ...
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Custom fields: In what order are they saved into the DB?
If I insert multiple custom fields to my article, they get sorted in "I don't know what" way. So when I insert some multiple fields in an article and call those via
$cf = get_post_custom();
foreach ...
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If Post Meta Equals Current Title Conditional Advanced Custom Fields
I would like to create a custom query loop to display data depending on the current post title.
Pseudo-code:
if post title = custom filed
Show related content
I have a page called artists ...
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WordPress is stripping escape backslashes from JSON strings in post_meta
I thought I was making my life easy and being future-conscious by saving some content as bits of JSON in custom post_meta fields. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn't agree and is making my life ...
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display specific custom fields
I have few custom field assigned for each post, like:
"Club" with value "club1"
"Date" with value "date1"
and so on...
Now, I want to display from all the custom fields just those 2 " club" and ...
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problem retrieving specific custom meta [duplicate]
I want to retrieve just 2 custom fields from my post, this is what I've tried:
<?php echo get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'CLUB','DATES', true); ?>
This code is retrieving just the first one ...
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Can the Next/Prev Post links be ordered by menu order or by a meta key?
I have a series of posts that are ordered by a meta_key value. They could also be arranged by menu order, if necessary.
The next/prev post links (generated by next_post_link, previous_post_link, or ...
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Is it possible to store visitors IPs in wp_postmeta table?
Or in any of the other 11 Wordpress tables. I also need to store: submission date, name, contact number in the same table.
What approach would be best? A custom table or using a standard table?
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delete attachment for one post without deleting actual attachment post
I'm writing custom ajax calls for media attachments from FrontEnd, I have everything read to use, except the actual logic.
I'm using WP E-Commerce plugin, where I want many images for one post. And I ...
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Access Serialized Post Meta Values
I am using the Humanmade fork of a custom meta box class, they give the ability to set up groups of repeatable fields, as such I have a post saved with post_meta as follows ...
6 meta_id entries in ...
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My theme saves their custom post type's metadata as a serialized array, how to access the keys?
I've recently bought the WP Directory Portal theme from ThemeForest.
Since the theme doesn't do frontend posting of custom post types, I've resulted to using WP User Frontend Pro.
There's a problem ...
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How do I retrieve multi-dimensional arrays from the wp_postmeta table, & display on a website?
I would like to retrieve multi-dimensional arrays (that have been created with metaboxes), & display them on the front end of a website using shortcodes.
My Question: How do I retrieve ...
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displaying an error before update_post_meta
I'm trying to restrict how many items you can associate with a post so in my save function I have:
add_action( 'save_post', array( $this, 'save_custom_items_data' ), 10, 2 );
public function ...
