If your form is embedded in a shortcode or some other front end form, I would post to the permalink for the page. That’s more reliable than using action=”” in my experience. Then output something on that page to acknowledge the submission or show an error. $global $post; printf(‘<form method=”post” action=”%s”>’,get_permalink($post->ID)); or in for a … Read more
First check that it’s not empty, then typecast to a string value as a security precaution, because it’s always possible for this to be submitted as an array; e.g., by an attacker. Then unslash, sanitize, and continue by checking length and anything else that you’d like to validate. if ( ! empty( $_POST[‘contact_msg’] ) ){ … Read more
If I understood you correctly, an array of terms either slug or term_id, for example, depending on field to be exact. $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘a_post_type’, ‘tax_query’ => array( ‘relation’ => ‘AND’, array( ‘taxonomy’ => ‘tax_one’, ‘field’ => ‘slug’, ‘terms’ => array( ‘action’, ‘comedy’ ), ), array( ‘taxonomy’ => ‘tax_two’, ‘field’ => ‘term_id’, ‘terms’ … Read more
Caching is a tricky thing to achieve. You don’t want the users to see it and make them do extra work. This is way browsers try to cache as much as a reasonable thing they need to do. 301 Redirects This type of redirect is cached by browsers. 301 Moved Permanently. A 301 redirect is … Read more
Custom Plugin Develoment, Form Action
To insert something to database you should send data with post request, get this data from request and save it. You created code which will insert last row of your loop on post request. You should create form for each of your previous trip and add hidden input fields to have the opportunity to get … Read more
<form action=”_contactform.php” method=”post” name=”submitform”> Note the action is _contactform.php, a relative URL, not an absolute URL, therefore it will get appended on to the current page. However, it would be more reliable to submit the form to the same page and leave the action blank, then run the code in WordPress. This way, at the … Read more
WordPress form submit to custom page template does not work
You were on the right track: use a meta_query in your query. There are plenty of examples in the codex, how you implement it depends on what fields you’re using, but that’s the way to go. An example with multiple fields queried: $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘product’, ‘meta_query’ => array( ‘relation’ => ‘OR’, array( … Read more
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