Bulk edit existing shortcode within custom field

In phpMyAdmin: update wp_postmeta set meta_value = replace(meta_value,'[idx-listings’,'[idx-listings showlargerphotos=”true”‘); As long as you’ve always typed the shortcode starting with [idx-listings and not, say, [ idx-listings, this will add your new attribute everywhere the shortcode has been used.

Show MySQL errors that occur when I excute $wpdb->insert()

This doesn’t answer your question directly, but the solution here is to validate the data before you chuck it at the database and pray. Sending bad data ‘down the line’ so that something else can check it and report back to you if it wasn’t what they were expecting is bad design. You don’t know … Read more

How to remove Database Table in WordPress via Function file?

Add this to functions.php function delete_wpbr_rank_math_sc_analytics() { if ( ! isset( $_GET[‘delete_wpbr_rank_math_sc_analytics’] ) ) { return; } global $wpdb; $wpdb->query( “DROP TABLE IF EXISTS wpbr_rank_math_sc_analytics” ); } add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘delete_wpbr_rank_math_sc_analytics’ ); Visit this URL: https://yoursite.com/wp-admin/?delete_wpbr_rank_math_sc_analytics Obviously change “yoursite.com” to your actual domain. I made it so you have to visit a specific URL so it … Read more

add_post_meta does not respect the content

Why the content is not being respected And it’s not just add_post_meta(), but any functions like add_term_meta() and add_user_meta() that uses add_metadata(). And the reason why the value gets serialized again is because add_metadata() will automatically serialize the meta value using maybe_serialize() which (unfortunately) will serialize the value even if it’s already serialized. How to … Read more