Welcome to WPSE. A few problems to note: $user_id is not defined so your call to wp_get_current_user() is passing a null value as a parameter. $current_user = wp_get_current_user($user_id);. // $user_id is not defined wp_get_current_user() does not accept parameters. See the documentation here: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_get_current_user/ This line $current_user->ID; does nothing. There is no ID method in the … Read more
How to display the “ratingValue” and “ratingCount” values generated by the KK Star Ratings plugin into my page’s recipe ld+json schema
I had to add this code from Stephen Mullen on StackOverflow to get it to work: add_action( “rest_insert_user_question”, function ( \WP_Post $post, $request, $creating ) { $metas = $request->get_param( “meta” ); if( is_array( $metas ) ) { foreach( $metas as $name => $value ) { // update_post_meta( $post->ID, $name, $value ); update_field( $name, $value, $post->ID … Read more
The modern way to do is to use javascript, as Sally CJ noted in the comments. But, you can get the job done by doing it the old with add_meta_box(). When registering a custom metabox you need to set the context argument to side to make the metabox appear on the block editor sidebar. See … Read more
This is not possible, you cannot query sub-values of serialised/structured data in post meta values. To fix this, you need to store the dates you want to query/filter by as separate post meta key/value pairs. Values need to be string/number/boolean whole values to be queried this way. They cannot be complex structures or sub-strings, such … Read more
What is faster: custom taxonomy or serialized post-meta for db retrieval? (over 60,000 posts)
Update post_meta with WooCommere variation data
Read / Watch / Listen times – meta
Unset field from an array not working as expected
Posting to a Custom Post Type from front end – user generated content