You can’t use it as-is because it will get double-serialized. So as per comment you unserialize it first and it will get serialized back when saved into option. $array = unserialize( $stuff ); update_option(‘my_options’, $array);
Looking at your code it looks perfectly fine. Although the more complex you make your query the more resources it is going to take and the longer it is going to take. You mention that your CPU usage rises to 80% which would be normal but how long is the usage holding at 80%? If … Read more
I have a plugin, Custom Taxonomy Sort, that allows you to sort taxonomy terms in any order that you might want. After installing the plugin, there will be an order field for each term. It will save these values as integers and will properly sort your taxonomy terms. By default, it will use the order … Read more
On the Codex page for wp_list_categories(), you can see the two following arguments that might help you: hide_empty: Toggles the display of categories with no posts. The default is true (hide empty categories). current_category: Allows you to force the current-cat CSS class to appear on uses of wp_list_categories() that are not on category archive pages. … Read more
This should display 5 posts per page (-1 for all of them on one page), with the post ID’s $value1 and $value2 being ignored. Ensure $value1 and $value2 are integers. $args = array( ‘numberposts’ => 5, ‘posts_per_page’ => get_option(‘posts_per_page’), ‘paged’ => $paged, ‘post__not_in’ => array( $value1, $value2 ) ); query_posts($args); EDIT – With the further … Read more
If I understand your question correctly, you would like to get all metadata for “products” across all posts. In other words, multiple posts have metadata with key “products” and you want to get those values. If this is correct, you should use get_post_custom_values, which is well documented in the codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_custom_values. As a side note, … Read more
The main problem with your code is that you only store the value and not the venue name a simple fix would be to change your vlaue to hold the venue name as well , something like: array( ‘name’ => ‘Venue’, ‘desc’ => ‘Venue of Event’, ‘id’ => $prefix . ‘event_venue’, ‘type’ => ‘radio’, ‘options’ … Read more
To get a custom field value outside of the loop you need to call global $wp_query to get your post id. global $wp_query; $postid = $wp_query->post->ID; $image = get_post_meta($postid, ‘Thumbnail’, true);
Essentially, you need to build an update method for your posts. The Basics Your update method needs to get the data of the custom fields, create a new array, and then store that data. if ( get_post_meta( $post_ID, ‘updated’, true ) != 1 ) : $old_data = get_post_custom( $post_ID ); $new_data = array( ‘name’ => … Read more
I finally figured it out. I was trying to call the wrong wp function. By using get_comment_author() instead of comment_author() the link displays as desired.