I think that you can improve performance saving view information in one single option instead in post meta applying the filter date on saving instead of on retrieving create the markup and save in a transient instead of saving the query (fragment caching) Rough implementation in a class class PopularPosts { const OPT = ‘myplugin_popular_posts’; … Read more
I do need to add both post_meta: add_post_meta( $insert_q_key_id, ‘q_key_type’, (int)$q_key_type ); // Q Key Type And for ACF: update_field( “field_52c737a413e07″, (int)$q_key_type, $insert_q_key_id ); // Q Key Type And the rest of the answer “should” be covered by wp_set_object_terms: wp_set_object_terms( $insert_q_key_id, (int)$q_key_type, ‘q_key_type’, true ); However, this function is not fully available at the point … Read more
You are facing an XY Problem. The only reason to save meta values each as a single row, would be if you need them to be searchable. If you need specific sanitization rules, use either filter_var_array() or sanitize the values, then build the array and finally save the value. Gist with a comprehensive filter_var_array() example … Read more
If you don’t feel any performance degradation then there is no problem. If it took you two years to get to this state then you probably safe for another two years, which is almost forever in the time scale of the internet (unless you are CNN or similar). This doesn’t mean that you should not … Read more
You will want to make use of Yoast SEO’s “WPSEO_Frontend” class. To display the meta description field content, you could do the following: <?php if (class_exists(‘WPSEO_Frontend’)) { echo WPSEO_Frontend::metadesc(false); } ?>
Instead of implementing a custom search query, instead include the custom fields in the standard search, and use rewrite rules to map /?post_type=cars&s=mysearchterm to /search/cars/mysearchterm . Or just use the query vars in the URL rather than POST/$_POST or transient data. GET/$_GET is your friend here. Transients are intended for storing data temporarily rather than … Read more
Here’s a script that you can enqueue into your admin panel. It will add a new tab to the category tabs called “Active”. Whenever a checkbox is checked, it gets added to the “Active” tab list, you can also click links in the “Active” tab list to remove them ( uncheck them ). Add this … Read more
It turns out the latest Advanced Custom Fields update (from version 5.6.0 on) removes the core custom fields metaboxes by default. The way to restore it was to add a filter in functions.php: add_filter(‘acf/settings/remove_wp_meta_box’, ‘__return_false’);
The problem is that ‘post_parent’ is not a public query var, i.e. you can use it only from code. To be able to use it from the URL, you just need to add these lines of code: function make_post_parent_public_qv() { if ( is_admin() ) $GLOBALS[‘wp’]->add_query_var( ‘post_parent’ ); } add_action( ‘init’, ‘make_post_parent_public_qv’ );
You should be fine deleting empty custom fields. The main reason is, that get_post_meta( $id, ‘metakey’, true ) returns an empty string if the field is not set, so it is the same as having an empty record set. get_post_meta( $id, ‘metakey’, false ), returns an empty array if no value is set, so you … Read more