WordPress website not loading

WP stores URLs in a lot of different tables. You can either use a WP CLI command to search and replace the old URL to your new local URL, or use a plugin to do the same thing. Don’t just go do a blanket search-and-replace in phpMyAdmin or similar because the URLs are stored in … Read more

How to allow searching a custom meta key in admin list table?

After posting the same question to multiple AI chatbots, CoPilot finally gave me an answer that works for both: add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘filter_files_admin_columns’ ); function filter_files_admin_columns( $query ) { if ( !is_admin() || ‘eri-files’ !== $query->get( ‘post_type’ ) ) { return; } add_filter( ‘posts_search’, ‘custom_search_query’, 10, 2 ); function custom_search_query( $search, $wp_query ) { global $wpdb; … Read more

wp:query not responding to new settings

In the block query settings, it has “inherit”:true. This means the rest of the parameters are ignored and instead the global query is used. You could consider setting inherit to false, or otherwise use filter hooks to change the query as needed, such as pre_get_posts.