This should work out of the box, as long as the “unique” parameter of add_post_meta() is false. add_post_meta($id, ‘_dates’, 2, false); add_post_meta($id, ‘_dates’, 3, false); add_post_meta($id, ‘_dates’, 4, false); then somewhere else $dates = get_post_meta($id, ‘_dates’, false); Now $dates should be an array of your 3 values.
Sounds like what you want is to use Custom Post Types with custom fields to create your own directory. Here’s an answer I wrote about exactly that: Tips for using WordPress as a CMS? Implementing a CrunchBase.com Clone using WordPress? Also, take a look at the SimpleFields plugin for WordPress which can help you create … Read more
I’ve been using this for a while to solve exactly your issue, I think I got it from the codex somewhere. But it works. // verify if this is an auto save routine. // If it is our form has not been submitted, so we dont want to do anything if ( defined(‘DOING_AUTOSAVE’) && DOING_AUTOSAVE … Read more
Not from personal experience (I don’t use WP image management much), but I believe Regenerate Thumbnails plugin is usually recommended for rebuilding thumbnails.
Just call p2p_connect( $id_of_post_type_a, $id_of_post_type_b ); in the form handling code.
what about something like this on activation? function wpa47153_run_once(){ $posts = get_posts(array(‘numberposts’ => -1) ); foreach($posts as $p) : $meta = get_post_meta($p->ID, ‘meta_key’,true); if($meta) : $my_post = array(); $my_post[‘ID’] = $p->ID; $my_post[‘post_content’] = $meta . “<br/>” . $p->post_content ; // Update the post into the database wp_update_post( $my_post ); unset($my_post); //remove the meta key delete_post_meta($p->ID, … Read more
This works fine if I’m only returning data for a single meta key…but fails if I want to return all of the meta data, but return them all as strings (single). This doesn’t make a lot of sense. A function in PHP can only return a single value so there is no way to return … Read more
Yes it does. Escaping depends on context and in worst case like using esc_html when writing directly to the DB are just a security hole. Even if there is no security issue, there is theoretical one. The user asked you to store A, and you are storing B. In a simple cases B is exactly … Read more
Try the following code. add_action( ‘add_meta_boxes’, function() { add_meta_box( ‘custom-metabox’, ‘Select values’, ‘fill_metabox’, ‘post’, ‘normal’ ); }); function fill_metabox( $post ) { wp_nonce_field( basename(__FILE__), ‘mam_nonce’ ); // How to use ‘get_post_meta()’ for multiple checkboxes as array? $postmeta = maybe_unserialize( get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘elements’, true ) ); // Our associative array here. id = value $elements = … Read more
To show post type meta data on a single page template, I assume that you’re in the Loop. // Use get_the_ID() to get the ID via the API function echo get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), ‘my-info’, true ); // You can also call it from the global, as the query refers to the current single page echo get_post_meta( … Read more