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Customize rel=canonical tag for single blog post

Upon inspection, this code never prints to the page. I imagine it might have to do with parse order. It depends where you added it. If you want to add code to the <head> element of the page you either need to put it in that element in the head in the header.php template or … Read more

Categories posts Tags custom-field, customization, post-meta, posts, rel-canonical

Modifying post content with the_post action hook

Don’t use the_post, instead use the_content filter to modify content passed to the the_content() call. However, this is your theme, so the best way to do this is to just do it in search.php, and not bother with the filters and actions. AKA don’t run the code on a filter to try and modify or … Read more

Categories search Tags post-content, post-meta, search

Archieve.php not loading for custom post type

The single.php template is loaded when you visit a post. The archive.php page is a generic archive template, loaded in case a grouping of posts (a year, a month, a category, a tag, etc.) does not have it’s own template. Please read this about template hierarchy. If you want to create a custom post template … Read more

Categories custom-post-types Tags archives, categories, custom-post-types, post-meta, theme-development

Look up all posts by status or meta value – performance difference

As mentioned in the comments, post_status is stored in the posts table but postmeta values are stores in postmeta table which is usually a much more heavy table than posts. Using a meta in db queries, results in adding a JOIN clause to the query to join this heavy table! So using post_status is definitely … Read more

Categories post-meta Tags get-posts, post-meta

Do posts, pages and / or custom post type objects have unique ID numbers or can there be multiple objects with the same IDs?

The posts table, wp_posts is probably the most important table in the WordPress database but it does not contain only blog posts as its name implies. It stores various types of content including posts, pages, menu items, media attachments and any custom post types (CPT) that a site uses. The ID column of this table … Read more

Categories custom-post-types Tags custom-post-types, id, post-meta

How to check if a post meta key/value pair already exists for a specific post

According to the docs of get_post_meta(), you could try relying on the return value of the get_post_meta() function, or use the get_post_custom_keys() function. N.B. If you’re going for the first option, you could use the object operator -> to get the meta value from the post, and circumvent having to call get_post_meta() yourself. View it … Read more

Categories post-meta Tags meta-query, post-meta

Avoiding ACF get_field and returning to core WordPress function

You can use the default WP function get_post_meta to get meta from the post, here is the link to the official documentation https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_meta/ For example get_field(‘slb_first_name’, $post_id ) must be replaced with get_post_meta($post_id, ‘slb_first_name’, true)

Categories custom-field Tags core, custom-field, meta-query, post-meta

cannot get user_registered date from get_user_meta

user_registered is not a meta field, it is a field in the users table. Try: $register_date = $user->user_registered;

Categories users Tags post-meta, user-meta, users

Mass SQL WordPress Meta Key deletion

First, make sure you back up your database. 🙂 If you’re wanting to run a SQL command directly – perhaps using phpMyAdmin – the query would be DELETE FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = ‘kksr_fingerprint_default’

Categories plugins Tags mysql, plugins, post-meta

Gutenberg: How to display meta field data in the block frontend (save function)

From the docs: https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/reference-guides/block-api/block-edit-save/#save Note: The save function should be a pure function that depends only on the attributes used to invoke it. It can not have any side effect or retrieve information from another source, e.g. it is not possible to use the data module inside it select( store ).selector( … ). This is … Read more

Categories post-meta Tags block-editor, post-meta
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