Here is what I have learned about the WP REST API: It is a mess of undocumented and unfinished code with great promise but frustratingly little clarity. That said, I have a workaround that I will post here, hoping it is useful to others in a similar pickle to me: I just found that I … Read more
You have a structural problem with your data. Serialized data in the database is terrible if you need to search over pieces of that serialized data. There is no reliable, efficient, and certainly no easy, SQL query to search over serialized data. “serialization” is a PHP mechanism. It isn’t SQL. To the database that is … Read more
You aren’t retrieving the saved data and populating the form. function swpd_render_info_fields() { ?> <label for=”swpd_comany_addr”>Company Address</label> <input type=”text” name=”swpd_company_addr” id=”swpd_company_addr” /> <?php } There is nothing in that function that would insert your saved data. You just write a blank form every time. You need to be conditionally populating the input value. function swpd_render_info_fields($post) … Read more
There is no official documented list of all possible post meta keys in core. The closest I could for anything unofficial was this answer on Stack Exchange: You probably don’t want to use the following post meta keys: _thumbnail_id – Used to store the featured image ID _edit_last – Used by the Heartbeat API _edit_lock … Read more
While the query you describe is not impossible in SQL, it is not going to be very efficient as the query would have to evaluate every row in the table matching those keys, and then sort based on the result of the calculation. You are better saving a fourth value and sorting on that, as … Read more
Yes, You can call action “pre_get_posts”. add_action(‘pre_get_posts’,’search_filter’); You can add parameter : $args = array( ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 6, ‘paged’ => $paged, ‘meta_key’ => ‘event_date’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’ ); You can use above parameter e.g. : function search_filter($query){ if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() ) { $query->set(‘post_status’, ‘publish’); $query->set(‘meta_key’, ‘event_date’); $query->set(‘orderby’, … Read more
There are two methods: get_post_meta() $attachment_meta = get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘_wp_attachment_meta’, true ); Will return an array(): $width = $attachment_meta[‘width’]; That true as the third parameter is especially important in this case, since the metadata being queried is a serialized array. You need to return it as single, or you’re going to get an array returned, … Read more
WordPress uses SimplePie for reading feeds, not for generating feeds. You’re looking at two different things here: You want to output your custom post meta in an RSS feed. You want to read that custom post meta somewhere else. The first part is pretty easy. WordPress supports custom RSS feed templates. You can actually replace … Read more
If you need to search by your meta_key/meta_value then do not store them in a single key. If you store as a single key then you are going to have to store your data as serialized string, or something similar. The only way you can search that would be via an inefficient %LIKE% query which … Read more
You could do it with one loop, you just need a valid sort order right? Players with one instrument, followed by the next and so on.. UPDATE: Following on the asker’s comment, you can still use one query and use rewind_posts() to iterate the loop as many times as you need, ie. do something like … Read more