You’re setting a value whether it’s checked or not with this line: $chk = ( isset( $_POST[‘special_box_check’] ) && $_POST[‘special_box_check’] ) ? ‘on’ : ‘off’; The value is going to be either on or off, so your if condition is always true, since it always has a value. You could change it to save only … Read more
You can use meta query in wp query to get required posts $args = array( ‘meta_query’ => array( ‘relation’ => ‘OR’, array( ‘key’ => ‘city’, ‘value’ => ‘Melbourne’, ‘compare’ => ‘NOT LIKE’ ), array( ‘key’ => ‘city’, ‘value’ => ‘Melbourne’, ‘compare’ => ‘NOT EXISTS’ ) ) ); $query = new WP_Query( $args );
Pods allows you to create meta-based or table-based content types. Meta-based work as normal WP post types do. You can also extend WP objects like Comments, Users, Media, and Taxonomies to add custom fields to those. If you choose to use table-based Pods, it creates a table with the ID field and only the custom … Read more
while agreeing 95% with Drew’s answer I would like to attend to another point It’s normally advised to not include custom types or taxonomies in themes as the themes will be less useful to other users, and would not be accepted by the WordPress theme repository. The word of the maintainers of the wordpress.org repository … Read more
You could just rewind the query to loop through again: <?php rewind_posts(); ?> <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> <p>Post Number: <?php the_ID(); ?></p> <?php endwhile; ?> THE LOOP
meta_id in postmeta table is just an AUTO_INCREMENT id for the table, you can easily inspect that: So, your guess is correct, you can leave it. EDIT Avoid raw SQL statements and introduce $wpdb for SQL purposes. And for postmeta insertion you can see the following tutorial I found a best one: Reusable Custom Meta … Read more
Here’s the way I have always done it. All of this code goes in functions.php. Of course this adds a whole new section to the user profile. add_action( ‘show_user_profile’, ‘be_show_extra_profile_fields’ ); add_action( ‘edit_user_profile’, ‘be_show_extra_profile_fields’ ); function be_show_extra_profile_fields( $user ) { ?> <h3>Extra Contact Information</h3> <table class=”form-table”> <tr> <th><label for=”contact”>Contact Number</label></th> <td> <input type=”text” name=”contact” id=”contact” … Read more
Use WP_Query to select any post based on meta key and value. You can also sort posts Ex: $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘events’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’, //probably you will need this because the value is date ‘meta_key’ => ‘event_date’, ‘meta_query’ => array( ‘relation’ => ‘AND’, array( ‘key’ => ‘event_status’, ‘value’ => $retrieved_status, ‘compare’ => … Read more
For updating and saving use add_action( ‘edit_term’, ‘save_termmeta_tag’ );
You can delete directly from the database, using an SQL statement like: delete from wp_postmeta where meta_id in ( select * from ( select meta_id from wp_postmeta a where a.meta_key = ‘blogger_blog’ and meta_id not in ( select min(meta_id) from wp_postmeta b where b.post_id = a.post_id and b.meta_key = ‘blogger_blog’ ) ) as x ); … Read more