The best way to collision check in WP
I don’t think there is a built in mechanism for searching the meta table for a key/value pair other than a full blown post search with WP_Query. I’d consider that overkill. Just query the table: $unique = $wpdb->get_var( “SELECT meta_id FROM {$wpdb->postmeta} WHERE meta_key = ‘unique_code’ AND meta_value=”{$random}” LIMIT 1″ ); I can’t help but … Read more