You can use the wp_insert_post action for when a user creates/saves a “normal” post, then find their custom post and copy over any fields you need: function wpse_203349_copy_post_meta( $post_ID, $post, $update ) { if ( $post->post_type !== ‘post’ ) return; $users_custom_posts = get_posts( array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 1, ‘post_author’ => $post->post_author, ‘post_type’ => ‘custom_post_type’, ) ); … Read more
How can I loop through the fields and display the content without having to deplicate it? This for loop will cycle through the four field names to avoid duplication. <?php for ($i=1; $i<=4; $i++) { $fieldName=”featured_content_” . $i; $featuredContentPostID = get_field($fieldName)->ID; $selectedFeaturedContent = get_post( $featuredContentPostID ); ?> <li> <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/204839/<?php echo esc_url( get_permalink($featuredContentPostID) ); ?>”> … Read more
You could do this like saving post meta. You would unhook out of the current hook and update the post, if you don’t do that you will end up in an infinite loop: /** * Save Custom Data * @param int $post_id * @param Post Object $post */ function save_custom_meta_boxes( $post_id, $post ) { // … Read more
There are a number of caching plugins that may work for you, or build the data on the admin side when posts are added/updated and save it in an option.
Per comments, here’s a (very rough) example of accessing repeated fields in the frontend. Note using WPAlchemy extract mode, which gives each field its own meta entry, and makes accessing them a bit simpler. Also using actions in “functions.php” to add metabox and to output content for test purposes – obviously you’d adapt the ‘init’ … Read more
Use it can be done using CUSTOM META BOX. Add following to function.php: /* Adds pizza size meta box to the post editing screen ******************************************************/ function prfx_custom_meta() { add_meta_box( ‘prfx_meta’, __( ‘Pizza Size’, ‘prfx-textdomain’ ), ‘prfx_meta_callback’, ‘post’ ); } add_action( ‘add_meta_boxes’, ‘prfx_custom_meta’ ); /* Outputs the content of the meta box **************************************/ function prfx_meta_callback( $post … Read more
You just want a meta_query based on the current page’s ID: $query = new WP_Query( array( ‘post_type’ => ‘sidebar_boxes’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ‘orderby’ => ‘menu_order’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ‘meta_query’ => array( ‘key’ => ‘checkfieldBox’, ‘value’ => $post->ID, ) ) ); You can really only depend upon $post in the way I did on “singular” pages … Read more
At query level? Not possible. {db_prefix}_postmeta has only one field for value. WP serializes arrays before inserting them and deserializes after they’re out. So you have three choices here: If you really need this sorting at query level (pagination, maybe?) you have to rethink your information architecture and start using a separate custom_post_meta field for … Read more
It’s possible you may have to define your own ACF Custom Field Type which holds your templates. And after a template is selected then you would programmatically copy the fields to a repeater. Awesome ACF has quite a few examples, WordPress has quite a few plugins and there is a User Submitted Add-Ons support forum.
As @milo was saying above each value that you wish to save as post meta will need it’s own call to update_post_meta. And each usage of update_post_meta will need you to specific a unique name for that meta value. Since you have all the data in an array and you have already sanitized it you … Read more