Questions tagged [post-meta]
Post meta is a data set containing additional core as well as custom post information.
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Limit the number of acf content when displaying in post loop [closed]
I display post images by this way in the loop .
<?php
$images = get_field('POST-IMAGES');
$size = 'medium'; // (thumbnail, medium, large, full or custom size)
if( $images ): ?>
<ul>
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How to detect that the save_post hook is calling the callback associated to the current edit post page only
I am using the save_post hook to handle updates in a post that are done via the admin edit post page.
But since I have more than ten custom post types, the save_post associated to each one of them is ...
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Change post author without using wp_update_post()
The standard or more obvious way to change a post author in WP is to use the wp_update_post() function, as shown in this question.
But I am having an issue, described as follows:
// Inside the ...
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changing meta value and meta key of price field
I have theme that uses price field. its price is stored in "S1" meta key.
next is woocommerce that use simple _price meta key to tore price values.
i want that when user enter price in theme ...
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Assign / update custom field value for all posts (How can I assign only to posts without custom field value?)
I mean; There are more than 7000 posts. some have private space but some do not. I want to add a custom field in bulk to those that do not contain custom fields and update their values.
The following ...
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update_post_meta() is not saving the value
I have been working on this for hours already but cannot manage to find a solution.
I am using this code to save a value for a metabox:
$fecha_proxima_revision = sanitize_text_field($_POST['...
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Posting to a Custom Post Type from front end - user generated content
Is there a fast and reliable way of posting to a Custom Post type from the front end? My use case is for creating a daily checkin for a fitness trainer. I have created the necessary fields using ACF. ...
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Should I sanitize custom post meta if it is going to be escaped later?
Firstly, sorry if this has been properly answered before. After reading a lot of questions and guides, I'm still not totally convinced on the best way of doing things.
I understand the basics of XSS- ...
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Unset field from an array not working as expected
I'm trying to filter a custom options page from acf that is used to create menus based on items that are added on the backoffice, but I'm not being able to unset the fields when they aren't supposed ...
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Only show meta on one post type on search results page
I want to remove the post meta from all post types that are not "posts" from my site or at least from the search results.
Im currently using the Jnews theme and in the search results page I ...
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Read / Watch / Listen times - meta
I have a website organised around three kinds of posts (categorised accordingly): "Read" "Watch" and "Listen".
I want to have a read-time and watch-time and listen-time ...
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Add an action based on custom post meta field
I need to add every single post as a custom hook, in every post I have tow field, mycode will be code content and need to hook it to custom action, this custom action Ill get it from ...
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Save data is post using php front end
I'm newbie, i have a simple php file ,there is my data like, title, body content, feature image, category and 1 custom file
I want to save this data in my post
My coding look like this
$title="...
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Ajax: Populate <div> with content from a post's ID not working - duplicating current page html instead
Ok guys and gals, I'm losing my mind here...
I am looking to append the content and a custom field of a post to a div on page. The ID of the content and custom field is defined by a data attribute on ...
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Update post_meta with WooCommere variation data
Iam having a product with multiple variations.
I created custom fields which will show up in the settings of each variation. These fields should hold/duplicate some variation data.
Iam having trouble, ...
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What is faster: custom taxonomy or serialized post-meta for db retrieval? (over 60,000 posts)
I have a search plugin that can search serialized metadata as well as categories (for multi-checkbox).
Is there any advantage to using serialized post metadata instead of creating a custom taxonomy ...
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How Can I save multiple records in same meta key?
I want to save multiple dates in meta key.
I have a three dates 2,3,4 and I want to save all these values in same meta key but as a different values.
For example:
dates(meta key) 2(meta value)
dates(...
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Fetch Record based on meta key dates
I want to write a query which fetches the data based on my meta key added. Meta key name is 'repeater'.
This is my POST META.
Serialized:
a:3:{i:0;a:3:{s:9:"postdates";s:10:"2021-02-02&...
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Branch made by several custom values
Below code from function.php works fine when the custom value used for conditional branch is only one.
This code means if custom key A is AAA, update custom key B as ZZZ.
if(get_post_meta($post->ID,...
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How to improve my non-unique metadata MySQL entries?
I'm working on a plugin for WooCommerce which uses a cpt called Restock. In a Restock post you can enter products ( id ) plus restock. The user can add as many product restock pairs as they want per ...
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How to add custom metadata text box dropdown to sidebar in Gutenberg editor for all post types
I am looking for how to add a custom dropdown on the right sidebar of the Gutenberg editor. I would like to do this within the functions.php of my custom theme, not with a plugin. The dropdown would ...
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register_meta not showing custom post type metabox data in rest api
I have added a custom post type and I want to expose the custom field value in the rest api. As per the docs register_meta can be used.
I have created a custom post meta box using the wordpress way. ...
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Removing Malware
I've been asked to remove some Malware from a friend's site.
I've found some wonky links in the wp_postmeta table, but the post_id that the field is associated with doesn't exist - and, weirdly, it's ...
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Cannot edit post meta fields with rest API
I am using python to send POST requests to /wp-json/wp/v2/< post type >/< post id >. This successfully updates standard fields such as title, content etc. However I am unable to make any ...
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Add post meta fields, when creating a post using WordPress' REST API
In the documentation for /posts for WordPress REST API it states that I can add a meta-field. But it doesn't say which format that should be in.
I can find other guides showing how it should be if ...
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WP_POSTMETA changes site crash
I try to update wp_postmeta from SQL script.
This is my original row in table:
a:7:{s:16:"lambda_page_item";a:24:{i:0;a:9:{s:9:"grid_size";s:3:"940";s:7:"boxname&...
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How to display the "ratingValue" and "ratingCount" values generated by the KK Star Ratings plugin into my page's recipe ld+json schema
I'm trying to add ld+json schema markup to each recipe page on my site that will automatically pull over the most up to date aggregator rating data (from kk star ratings). I came across this post (...
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I Can't get the post_tag name from term_id using wp_set_object_terms
I use https://rudrastyh.com/wordpress/select2-for-metaboxes-with-ajax.html.
I want to display the name of post_data inside widget tags of posts and mainly tags column inside posts list.
I can't get ...
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Update Post Meta for a logged in user
I have created a form which collects information which I want to update a post with. The code I have works great, but instead of updating a post for the user, it creates a new one. Not sure what I am ...
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Getting meta in editor plugin, and event triggering issue
I have a Custom Post Type defined with custom-fields support. I then registered a meta field.
The first issue is that select( 'core/editor' ).getEditedPostAttribute( 'meta' )....
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how to auto random increment for post view
i want edit this code to auto increment not just +2 for each user's click and instead increment number would be random ( + 2 , + 4 , ... )
if( $should_count && ( ( isset( $views_options['...
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WP_Query with meta_query for children
I'm using WooCommerce and it has a lot of plugins to handle different stuff.
The one thing needed by the client that no other plugin manages correctly is which variations can be visible for each user ...
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Sort custom meta column by other meta value
I have a post type named "event" and I store two meta values for these posts: _start_time and _start_time_unix. The first one contains a string representation of a date and the other one a ...
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Set class if a meta value is set within post archive
I'm attempting to add a class to posts when the meta key 'checkbox' is clicked. Here's what I have:
<?PHP $checkbox = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'checkbox', true);
if (!empty($checkbox)){ $...
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How to register post meta with multi level arrays?
I'm tringing to register post meta with object options under main object trim_levels to be used with REST API.
register_post_meta('vehicle', 'trim_levels', [
'type' => 'array',
'...
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Sort by price wpdb
I have a page on my wordpress to search for tires everything works fine but I would have liked to know how to add an extra column to sort them also by price.
They can already be sorted by size and ...
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Ordering posts by anniversary using only day and month
I defined a custom field named crimedate using standard date format Y-m-d. I defined the filters to make ordering by this date work in the post list of the backend, which works fine.
Now I need the ...
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Do posts, pages and / or custom post type objects have unique ID numbers or can there be multiple objects with the same IDs?
What are the canonical rules for the ID numbers of posts, pages and CPTs? Especially as they are created programatically.
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Ordering posts by custom field named "date" in backend
I defined a custom field named "date" and now want to order the post list in the backend by this field.
I defined the filters to make ordering work and header is clickable and shows the ...
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What are the meta fields for an attachment?
I'm trying to find all the meta fields that are used for an attachment: like Title, alternative text, description and caption . I've looked all over and the only one I was able to find was for an ...
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Meta query ignores multiple values of the key
I have the following post meta for posts:
_post_allowed_countries
//Example value:
array ( 0 => 'en', 1 => 'gr', )
// A list of allowed countries
and
_post_allowed_countries_not
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How is the author's name given a different color?
Author's and visitors' names use the same color in comments.The point here is that the color of the author's name is different in the comments. For example, in visitor comments, name is red. But, the ...
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Trouble with serialized metadata
I've read about 20 different posts on this topic and I still can't apply the solutions to the problem I'm having. I'm very sorry for not being able to figure it out based on those answers, but I ...
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How to get posts by meta value as multi-dimensional array?
I know how to get posts by a specific post meta when the meta value is a string.
$meta_query = [
[
'key' => $meta_key,
'value' => $meta_value,
'compare' => '='
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Store array as single, serialized post meta field or many post meta fields?
I am currently building a Wordpress plugin to fulfil WooCommerce orders for a "virtual" product. Once the payment is confirmed, I make an API call that returns a large (~50 values) array of ...
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No more get_option('date_time') in Wordpress 5.5?
The template I'm using outputs the date of a post using:
echo get_the_date( get_option( 'date_time' ) );
I was wondering why this output is now (after upgrade to WP 5.5) not working anymore?
A fast ...
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Unable to gather Image URL from Custom Post Type's; Custom Meta Field
I have wrote a very basic plug-in, it creates a Custom Post Type (CPT) that has multiple custom meta fields.
I cannot seem to echo out the Image URL. I have tried a heck of a lot of other similar ...
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How to keep custom post type related information
I have two custom post types "Product" and "News".
I want to keep a description that describes each of these types and I want to display it under the custom post title inside a ...
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Adding custom meta boxes to specified custom post type
In previous situations I have been able to add a custom meta field to posts, the code was this:
function website_add_meta_box() {
add_meta_box(
'website-website',
__('Website', '...
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Update wp_postmeta table based on 2 keys
I want to update the wp_postmeta table in the database based on 2 keys, is there a way to do that using any of the wordpress default functions. This is my DB query which is working fine:
$sql = "...
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