How do I manage them? I have about 20 columns that I’m populating – I’ve read a few things stating they are created via meta boxes? The custom fields are more of a storage engine for meta data. It’s up to you how to use them. And yes, meta boxes are common for that when … Read more
In the event that there will only ever be one featured designer, I would suggest using a setting instead of postmeta. This will be much faster, cleaner and less prone to error. You can store the value posts ID value in this custom setting and just overwrite the value when a new designer is featured.
<?php $custom_fields = get_post_custom($post_id); //Current post id $my_custom_field = $custom_fields[‘website’]; //key name foreach ( $my_custom_field as $key => $value ) echo $key . ” => <a href=”” . $value . “”>Click Here</a><br />”; ?>
You can get it by calling global $wp_query and assigning post->ID to a variable. <?php global $wp_query; $postid = $wp_query->post->ID; echo get_post_meta($postid, ‘top-headline’, true); ?>
i am not sure that this is place you should change the shortcode This code retrieves several values and not one.. as i understand it you are looking to get one value back right ? that’s much simpler and doesen’t require the use of “foreach” you simply put this in the desired location <?php echo … Read more
this obviously depends on the content of your ‘info’ custom field; generally, you could try: echo apply_filters(‘the_content’, get_post_meta($postid, ‘info’, true));
In my experience, the default “Pages” is easy enough for people to understand..it is where you edit each page. You can make a “Videos” page template for a Videos page that can show the page content at top “your text areas” and then calls a listing of all the custom post type Videos you created. … Read more
The best solution i found for querying posts where the meta_key IS NOT or doesn’t exists is to use the posts_where filter with a small sub-query, try this: //paste this function in your theme’s functions.php function metakey_no_featured( $where ) { global $wp_query; global $wpdb; $where .= $wpdb->prepare(” AND $wpdb->posts.ID NOT IN ( SELECT post_id FROM … Read more
You can add page-attributes support to the post type. This will cause a meta box to appear with an “order” field to do just what you want. eg. <?php add_post_type_support(‘your_custom_post_type’, ‘page-attributes’); Or you add page-attributesto the supports argument in register_post_type.
Use a ternary operation to keep it trim. array( ‘key’ => ‘rob_value’, ‘value’ => $rob, ‘compare’ => ( empty( $rob ) ? ‘!=’ : ‘=’ ) ); Breakdown, incase you’ve not seen ternary operators before.. array( ‘key’ => ‘rob_value’, ‘value’ => $rob, ‘compare’ => ( // If empty( $rob ) // Then ? ‘!=’ // … Read more