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Add custom fields after post/page title

There’s the get_post_meta() function to retrieve those data. So basically, you’d write a function in your functions.php file (or in a custom plugin – take “Hello Dolly” as example) and hook it. <?php /* Plugin Name: (#66495) »kaiser« Headway Title Button */ function wpse66495_headway_title_button() { return printf( ‘<div class=”title-btn”><a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/66495/%s” alt=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/66495/%s”><img src=”%s /></a></div>’ ,get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), … Read more

How can I setup custom templates for a meta-data query

There’s the core function add_*/get_query_arg() that you can use to append stuff to the query and retrieve it. So simply add a link somewhere, that points to your custom post types single.php template single-{$custom_post_type}.php Then append the query arg which would be ?wpse_meta_key=wpse_some_val and then do a switch on top of your template: if ( … Read more

update_post_meta after form is submited

The following is a crude example, it can be improved to ensure you’re dealing with integers etc and also shortened overall for brevity but this should get you started. add_filter(‘frm_after_create_entry’, ‘after_entry_created’, 30, 2); function after_entry_created($entry_id, $form_id){ global $post; if($form_id == 7){ //change 7 to the ID of your form $previous_value = get_post_meta($post_id, $key, true); if($previous_value … Read more

Hard Define Custom Field Value

Instead of directly grabbing the meta, wrap it in a function, then you can provide a default, or, comment out the innards and just return “this”

How to make certain content of the post noindex and no follow. not entire post?

Some spiders honor the <noindex>…</noindex> tags within a page so in that case you could simply wrap your FAQ content with <noindex></noindex>. But I honestly don’t know if Google or for that matter which spiders honor the tag. Since this is not really a WordPress question it’s off topic for this forum. You’d more than … Read more

Advice Needed for Post Meta Database Efficiency

Short answer- It Depends Long answer- It’s generally faster to query to 1 row in a single table rather than 20 rows of meta information but there are somethings you should cosider 20 custom meta boxes doesn’t mean that there are 20 postmeta values. User might be filling only 5 of them & then that … Read more

Function is Missing an Action Hook

Not exactly ‘solved’ — I still do not know why wp_update_post() did not hit the transition of {old status}to{new status} For my situation I simply added the below function to a unique instance of the button above. Not ideal, but hey it works.

When editing a post with a custom meta box the values aren’t displaying correctly

I cannot be 100% sure since I can’t test without installing and running you code but I think the problem is that you aren’t echoing your selected markup. <option <?php selected( get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘cpi_dropdown_options’, true), ‘Option 1′, true ); ?>>No</option> The last parameter tells selected to echo output. Edit: Your options aren’t sending a value. Compare … Read more

Does post-meta belong in header?

The w3 specification says that only h-tags are allowed inside of the hgroup-tag. The basic purpose of it is to group a main-headline and a sub-headline together. <hgroup> <h1>My maintitle</h1> <h2>Subtitle of my content</h2> </hgroup> edit html5 also adds the header-tag to use within the body. Inside of this any other html element is allowed. … Read more

Cache metadata for set of posts

I did a lot of digging into wordpress, and it looks like WP_Query ends up calling (indirectly) update_postmeta_cache($postIDs); which looks like it is exactly what I need. Hope that helps somebody else out. In 3.5.1 it’s located in wp-includes/post.php#2735.

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