You need to escape data while displaying also. Use esc_attr in your case. Try this: <input type=”text” name=”field_name” value=”<?php echo (!empty($field)) ? esc_attr( $field ) : ”; ?>” /> Check this for full documentation – https://codex.wordpress.org/Data_Validation
why is my plugin code not saving the meta field to the database
CubeWP Custom fields does not showing on my single past frontend page
And yet, the post meta is stored in the database as a serialized array! This is because all meta values are strings, that’s what the database table schema says. So if you try to pass structured data into it, WordPress tries to be helpful and uses serialize to turn it into a string, then deserialises … Read more
While working with the block themes and block patterns, we can access post data or metadata through given methods. By using render_callback in register_block_pattern register_block_pattern( ‘your-theme/custom-pattern’, array( ‘title’ => ‘Custom Pattern’, ‘content’ => ‘<!– wp:paragraph {“placeholder”:”Write something…”} /–>’, ‘categories’ => array( ‘text’ ), ‘render_callback’ => function() { $post_id = get_the_ID(); // Here we have access … Read more
Optimizing storage of Post Meta Entries
For WP_Query(), you don’t need to add the % before and after the keyword when using LIKE as comparison. WP_Query() will handle it for you. If you add %, WP_Query() thinks that you want to add that character itself to the search. That’s the first reason you don’t see any results. The second problem is … Read more
Get post meta in function hooked to transition_post_status
There were attempts to add footnotes support to core for several years, with several approaches being explored. It was decided to store them in post meta to make it easier to render the footnotes outside of the post content in templates. See: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/51201
You don’t want to use getCurrentPostId() from the core/editor store. This gets the current post ID from the post being edited, not the post in the query loop. To get that, ensure your block accepts postId (and possibly postType) as block context values via the usesContext key in the block type metadata. This can be … Read more