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Add custom fields after post/page title

There’s the get_post_meta() function to retrieve those data. So basically, you’d write a function in your functions.php file (or in a custom plugin – take “Hello Dolly” as example) and hook it. <?php /* Plugin Name: (#66495) »kaiser« Headway Title Button */ function wpse66495_headway_title_button() { return printf( ‘<div class=”title-btn”><a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/66495/%s” alt=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/66495/%s”><img src=”%s /></a></div>’ ,get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), … Read more

Hard Define Custom Field Value

Instead of directly grabbing the meta, wrap it in a function, then you can provide a default, or, comment out the innards and just return “this”

Echo text if field under user_meta is empty with get_users()

When you have that much code to output concatenating it into one string like that makes it very difficult to read for others and yourself, also, to debug when things go wrong. Try this method for concatenating your output, $blogusers = get_users(‘role=contributor&orderby=display_name’); foreach ($blogusers as $user) { $name = $user->display_name; $url = get_author_posts_url($user->ID, $author_nicename); $class … Read more

Get custom field from page, in a post?

I would suggest a different approach. The option for manually adding post excerpt should go in a theme option as opposed to a custom field. Also you should use this hook for modifying the excerpt’s more text http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/excerpt_more If the user is supposed to enter custom excerpt on a per-post basis, they can do it … Read more

Rewrite Custom Fields url

Take a look at this tutorial (Build a Short URL Service with WordPress Custom Post Types) that show how to create this kind of redirection or you can use a plugin that does that for you GoTo Redirect

list pages by custom_field?

Not sure if this help. If you use normal wordpress loop to query post or pages then you can do this by using query_posts You need to place a line of query_posts before the loop start and it might look something like this ( you might need to add some more parameter for getting only … Read more

Home page: using custom fields for posts and pages

You’re not being very specific so it’s hard to give you any help. But if you would like to output both pages and posts in the same loop you need to customize your query so that it includes both posts and pages. Learn about http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query. Or if you want the posts to be outputted at … Read more

Should I use a Meta field or custom table?

I can’t really speak to the performance simply because I’ve not dug in to the internals. But from a pure logic approach the custom meta makes more sense to me. The reason being that, at least from your description, you only really need a single field for each post/page. All you’re doing is reading a … Read more

Extending a CPT by Created by another plugin

I am not sure exactly what you are trying to ‘extend’, or how you want to extend it, but you can alter posts types with add_post_type_support, remove_post_type_support, and a few other functions. You can add metaboxes to the post type with add_meta_box setting the $post_type argument to the name used to register your post type. … Read more

Custom search with meta fields

I think that your main problem is that you are trying to display the results with searchform.php. That is basically just the form for the search, which you don’t need since you have your own form in the sidebar (if I understand you correctly). The results of a WP search are displayed with “search.php“

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