There is a way to put that meta box after the title. There is a hook called edit_form_after_title. If you look at the source there is no hook earlier than that that isn’t much too early– outside of the <form tag. The following does move that box to the location after the title… function generic_box() … Read more
Do the check inside the callback. save_post will pass you both the post ID and the post object: do_action(‘save_post’, $post_ID, $post); So… function save_my_meta_box_to_postmeta($post_ID, $post) { if (‘yourtype’ === $post->post_type) { echo ‘<pre>’; var_dump($post_ID,$post); echo ‘</pre>’; die; } } add_action(‘save_post’,’save_my_meta_box_to_postmeta’,1,2); You may want other conditionals as well like !DOING_AJAX, for example.
Do you really want your members to be able to insert unfiltered html in the database? By default, it’s not allowed as a security measure to protect your installation. You could allow it by adjusting kses filters. Or by-pass the filters via a custom sql query.
from my comment above: I can do this now with two separate queries, but it would be nice to be able to do it in one. Still, this is progress. The first query is like this: DELETE wp FROM wp_posts wp LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta pm ON pm.post_id = wp.ID WHERE pm.meta_key = ‘state’ AND pm.meta_value … Read more
The quick and dirty way is to put var_dump($wp_query->request) (or whatever you’ve named the WP_Query object if you’ve created a new one) on the page the query runs on and after it runs. You can also add define(‘SAVEQUERIES’, true); to wp-config.php to save the queries for analysis. You can read the queries something like this … Read more
There’s no need to do this via raw SQL. Make use of the WordPress core functions get_post_meta and update_post_meta. Use them like so: $existing = get_post_meta( $post_id, ‘existingkey’, true ); if ( ! empty( $existing ) ) { update_post_meta( $post_id, ‘newkey’, ‘newvalue’ ); } Done.
There is a simplier way to do what you want to: function add_unique_post_identifier( $post_id ) { $unique_post_identifier = get_post_meta($post_id, ‘unique_post_identifier’, true); // do nothing if post type is not ‘post’ or identifier is already set if (‘post’ != get_post_type( ( $post_id ) ) || !empty($unique_post_identifier) ) return; $generated_id = uniqid(); update_post_meta($post_id, ‘unique_post_identifier’, $generated_id); } // … Read more
get_field is a replacement for get_post_meta you have to use only it: $my_post_meta = get_field(‘album_image’, 556); if ( ! empty($my_post_meta) ) { // use the image } If you don’t know the ID and want retrieve the post meta via post name, you have to use WP_Query or get_posts to ge the post via slug: … Read more
This is more of a PHP question then a WordPress question. If you want to remove punctuation marks like (.,-;:) you can try this recursive version: $s = get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘one_line_summary’, TRUE ); if( function_exists( ‘remove_punctuation_marks’ ) ) $s = remove_punctuation_marks( $s ); with /** * Remove punctuation marks (.,-;:) if they’re the last characters … Read more
Use the third parameter of the get_post_meta(). If the third parameter is set to true then the function will return a single result, as a string. If false, or not set, then the function returns an array of the custom fields for example:– $froms = get_post_meta( 139, ‘from’, true ); $tos = get_post_meta( 139, ‘to’, … Read more