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“
The WP_Query class will automatically AND any filters that are set. In your case, using $query->set( ‘meta_query’, … ) means that WordPress will be looking for posts from the current author (because this is the author template) AND that have your custom meta key. From my understanding of your problem, this intentionally will never happen, … Read more
Post meta is stored in the wp_postmeta table. Values are stored as longtext, not as dates or integers. So your safest bet is to store these datetime fields as Unix timestamps. Then you can sort them using a meta query.
This is not a taxonomy field you need, because as you described, the name of the field will stay constant for every category, but its value will change for every post. So the field should be attached to the post, not to the category. What you actually need to use is a post custom field, … Read more
You can use the meta_query parameter to display all events for the current month like this: $start_date = date( ‘ym01’ ); $end_date = date( ‘ymt’ ); $meta_query = array( ‘key’ => ‘event_date’, ‘value’ => array( $start_date, $end_date ), ‘compare’ => ‘BETWEEN’, ‘type’ => ‘NUMERIC’ ); $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘hh_event’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ‘orderby’ … Read more
No need to deal with the content, use the do_shortcode function directly on your metadata: echo do_shortcode( $your_meta_data );
Test the value before you use it: <?php if ( ! $img = get_field(‘img_actor’, get_the_ID() ) ) $img = ‘http://www.example.com/wp-content/uploads/default.jpg’; ?> <img class=”film” src=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/scripts/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo urlencode($img); ?>&h=251&w=175&zc=1″ alt=”<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>” title=”<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”/> I recommend not to use the same text for title and alt, this is very annoying for screen reader users.
You’ll need to use meta_query along with meta_(key|value|compare) to interact with two different keys and get the order you want. <?php $q = new WP_Query(array( ‘post_type’ => ‘my_project’, ‘nopaging’ => true, // same as posts_per_page => 1, ‘order’ => $order, ‘orderby’ => ‘is_featured_position’, // your position key here ‘meta_key’ => ‘is_featured_position’, // also here, see … Read more
Answering to this Question, How to add Custom Blog Options to new blog setup form?, I ended up doing a plugin that does exactly that: adds a blog meta field to give each site a Category. It’s a simple meta field, meaning: no category tree. I just revised the code and updated. Available in GitHub. … Read more
I cannot be 100% sure since I can’t test without installing and running you code but I think the problem is that you aren’t echoing your selected markup. <option <?php selected( get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘cpi_dropdown_options’, true), ‘Option 1′, true ); ?>>No</option> The last parameter tells selected to echo output. Edit: Your options aren’t sending a value. Compare … Read more