You should really take a look at the AJAX in Plugins article. It gives examples of how to setup AJAX the proper way in WordPress. Here’s the basic workflow of using AJAX in WordPress: Create an enqueue your custom JavaScript file that uses jQuery.post or jQuery.get or jQuery.ajax Create a callback for the wp_ajax action … Read more
What you SHOULD be using is tags. So if you have a cpt post, say ‘1997 Honda Civic Del Sol’ you would tag it ‘1997’, ‘Honda’, ‘Civic’, ‘Del Sol’. I would make the year, make, and model separate taxonomies and then use a general taxonomy for things like color, etc if you need to. I … Read more
There’s no need to store the URL in a custom field, the thumbnail id is already stored in a custom field under the key _thumbnail_id. You can fetch the ID via get_post_meta and use wp_get_attachment_image_src to get the URL.
Since, presumably, there would be no more than one image per glossary entry, I would use a custom post type. The CPT should support a featured image, title, description, and excerpt, parents are not necessary, but might make it easier, depending on how your design plays out. To allow categorization of these, I would incorporate … Read more
A custom field would certainly do the job. If you wanted a slightly more elegant way of doing it, you could make a meta box (or maybe even hook the featured image box…not sure if that’s doable or not off the top of my head) and add a checkbox for ‘Display on Frontpage’ or something … Read more
Look at the meta_query argument, and the “IN” option for the “Compare” operator. Your query would look something like: $args = array( ‘product’ => $product, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘primary_link’, ‘value’ => array( ‘home’, ‘obj_handling’, ‘standalone_doc’, ‘advantages’, ‘weaknesses’, ‘top_comments’ ), ‘compare’ => ‘IN’ ) ) );
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);
Since you’re using WP_Query(), you should consult the Codex entry for WP_QUery(). It lists all of the parameters that can be passed to the arguments array. In this case, you want to use the post custom meta parameters. Assuming your custom meta key is _show_on_front, and your value is true or false: <?php $custom_query_args = … Read more
I think you want to look into using get_post_meta and then display it with that. Here it is on the Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_meta You can look at this example: <?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $prefix.’where’, true); ?> That should get you what you need if I understand the question correctly.
Whipped up a nifty little parsing function for you: function wpse44048_parse_video_link( $link ) { $url=”some url”; // pass this in $parsed_url = parse_url( $url ); $host = $parsed_url[‘host’]; // check that the service exists, otherwise return false if( strpos( $host, ‘youtube.com’ ) !== false && strpos( $host, ‘youtu.be’ ) !== false && strpos( $host, ‘vimeo.com’ … Read more