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Sort categories by meta value

This is no solution, just an explanation: WordPress currently doesn’t have taxonomy meta data. You could add a stand alone table to add meta data there. Anyway, it’s not recommended to add your taxonomy/category/tag meta data to the options table as this one wasn’t made to get JOINed to do meta queries by it. My … Read more

Calling a custom profile field only it it exists

On an “author” page you can get a lot of the information you need with get_queried_object and additional information with get_user_meta. What you want (sounds like) should be in that second chunk of information.That is… $author = $wp_query->get_queried_object(); $ameta = get_user_meta($author->ID); var_dump($author,$ameta); // debugging if(!empty($ameta[‘facebook’])) { var_dump($ameta[‘yim’]); // debugging } // and so one for … Read more

Custom fields: my custom checkbox area doesn’t seem to work

I went through all this yesterday! According to the codex there must be a post id given to current_user_can to check ‘edit_post’, so your capability check should be: if( !current_user_can( ‘edit_post’, $post_id ) ) return; Also, your final two lines should be more like this: $chk = isset( $_REQUEST[‘page_title_off’] ) ? ‘on’ : ‘off’; update_post_meta( … Read more

get_post_meta property of non object

Try this: <?php $description = get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘page-description’, true ); ?> <div id=”page-title”> <?php if( $description !=” ) { ?> <p><?php echo $description; ?></p> <?php } ?>

I want my post to republish again after adding a custom field

It can be achieved by scheduling the post time to current time + a few seconds for example. Each time you add a custom field, just before saving – change the publish time to the current time and then save.

Convert many posts from having a specific meta_key to use a post_format

After much reading, i realized that it would be more easily done using the WordPress API, so i baked out this little script. Simply add it to your theme’s functions.php then run it once. When done, remove it. function convertGalleries($test){ $galleries = get_posts(array( ‘meta_key’ => ‘custom_post_template’, ‘post_status’ => array( ‘any’ ),’posts_per_page’=>-1 )); if($test){ return count($galleries); … Read more

How to sort Custom Fields by a value

If you need sorted result by default,you need to query with sort parameters see https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters more more (example from the codes) $query = new WP_Query( array ( ‘post_type’ => ‘product’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value’, ‘meta_key’ => ‘price’ ) ); Alternatively, you could also easily do the sorting using jquery plugins like tinysort ( see http://tinysort.sjeiti.com/ ) … Read more

Checking if field is set before comparing with meta_query in query_posts?

I know how to do that in pure SQL but I can’t get WP_Query to nest conditions in the way required. If it is acceptable, the easiest way to make this work would be to assign an arbitrary far future end date when the data is saved to the database. Something like strtotime(“2038-01-01”). That is … Read more

Logic for Nearby places with post and categories

Could try a plugin called Geo mash up which turns WordPress into a GeoCMS, has nearby functionality built into it and can take long and lang values or addresses from custom fields. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/geo-mashup/ and try https://code.google.com/p/wordpress-geo-mashup/wiki/TagReference for the references.

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