You have no need for three states. Logically, you have “set” and “unset”. Don’t complicate things. When you check the box, add p3_comment_status. When you uncheck, remove (delete) the key. If you do that, all you need to do is use EXISTS/NOT EXISTS. That makes for a much simpler, and faster, query as a bonus. … Read more
Use meta_value_num with orderby instead of meta_value. meta_value is used to order alphabetically. meta_value_num used to order numerically. For more information, check this: Codex get_posts And this for detailed information: Codex WP_Query
First off – it sounds like you might actually be better separating your speaker types by using a taxonomy. Taxonomies are for grouping things together and the query that WordPress runs, for example: to get conference speaker is faster than doing it by meta query. Also you have the added bonus of being about to … Read more
According to the Codex, using add_post_meta() you can’t. That function is supposed to return either true or false. However, that function is a thin wrapper around add_metadata()… 1726 function add_post_meta($post_id, $meta_key, $meta_value, $unique = false) { 1727 // make sure meta is added to the post, not a revision 1728 if ( $the_post = wp_is_post_revision($post_id) … Read more
My initial code did not provide default WP_query argument parameters if either Select option was not set – the empty Parameter would filter everything out. To the best of my ability, I applied default parameter values from the initial Post and Terms queries and now the select filter is working. I would be pleased to … Read more
EDIT start and end date is following the date format. But you are using NUMERIC type casting in meta query. You need to use DATE type like array( ‘key’ => ‘user_registered’, ‘value’ => $start_date, ‘compare’ => ‘>’, ‘type’ => ‘DATE’ ), array( ‘key’ => ‘user_registered’, ‘value’ => $end_date, ‘compare’ => ‘<=’, ‘type’ => ‘DATE’ ) … Read more
EDIT 2 – FINAL EDIT Just before I start with this edit, just a few things here The code in my answer are the basics and meant to demonstrate the concepts. I have now tested both sets of code, and all works as expected. You have to add all your desired mark-up, styling and template … Read more
First, you have a very basic PHP mistake: single quotes mean “string literal”. Variables won’t be processed. You are literally putting “$variable” into the generated code. Second, look at the third parameter of get_post_meta() $single (boolean) (optional) If set to true then the function will return a single result, as a string. If false, or … Read more
To narrow down the possible causes I’d strongly recommend using a debugging plugin on your development server, like Query Monitor, so you can see the SQL being generated by your query. Alternatively check the request property of your $wp_query object. It’s always possible, if you only recently installed the plugin, that there aren’t any posts … Read more
First of all, never ever use query_posts. It breaks the main function and all plugins and functions relying on the main query object. For custom queries, use WP_Query or get_posts if aren’t looking to paginate the query As for the following line ‘orderby’ => ‘rr_recommends_count’, I can tell you that rr_recommends_count is an invalid value … Read more