Post meta data are for posts only. You should not create a new post type to use custom options. There is a dedicated Options API for that use case. Create an options page and let the user update the option there.
Replace the_field with get_field. The former echoes data without the need to explicitly call echo on the function name, the latter returns data, which is what you need when storing data against a variable for later use in your function. In your case, concatenating the first/last name prior to its output. That should fix your … Read more
While researching this topic myself, I found a plugin called Post Format Permalink. However, this plugin is not compatible with recent versions of WordPress; it is also filled with unnecessary code. I forked the plugin’s repository on GitHub, and improved the code greatly. I can now use a %post_format% tag in my permalink structure, and … Read more
Please see this answer: Plugin to set all Posts in a certain Category to a certain Post Format which provides a way to do this by hard-coding it into your theme. This should allow you to assign post formats to a certain category. You could also go the route of adding a categories button to … Read more
There is nothing wrong with your query, this is normal for WordPress. What is typically more important is the “total query time”. A well written theme with over 100 queries will often ring in under 20 milliseconds, that is 4-20 times faster than the blink of an eye. With a caching plugin you can can … Read more
You can try by connecting your self-hosted WordPress.org blog to the WordPress.com network using the Jetpack plugin. If that doesn’t work, hosting with WordPress.com VIP definitely will. Your site is still hosted on the WordPress.com network, only you have full access to it, just as if your were hosting on a different web host. It’s … Read more
I don’t know how much this will help, but when I’ve done date/time comparisons, I’ve always had to convert them to UNIX timestamps first (converts the date/time to a numeral, which you can compare as less than/greater than/equal to the next number), and then after the difference is sorted, convert it back with date(). A … Read more
I’d recommend using add_query_arg(): $url = add_query_arg(array( ‘foo’=>’bar’, ‘custom’=>’var’, ‘page’=>’myadminpage’ ), admin_url(‘admin.php’)); The second argument, admin_url(‘admin.php’), is optional – and if omitted it uses the url of the current page you are on.
WordPress does not send the content of custom fields during autosave (just title, slug and content). That’s why the custom field content will be deleted if you try to save the data: You cannot see the difference between deleted and missing content. I would create a separate autosave function for that, because the way WordPress … Read more
If you look at WordPress’s explanation of Roles and Capabilities, you will see that the correct role you should have assigned them is Author. That being said, if you for some reason don’t want to change them to Authors, you can alter the capabilities that a role has. See the full list of Editor capabilities … Read more