To answer this, I have gone and done some tests on this, and the results was actually mind blowing. Here is my test To this yourself, set yourself up with a test page. Just simply copy page.php, rename it and delete the loop. Now just create a new page in the back end. Before you … Read more
In case anyone else stumbles across this old question like I just did, it looks like the best way to handle this is using metadata_exists() see https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/metadata_exists/ Here’s what the syntax would be for post meta: metadata_exists(‘post’, $post_id, ‘meta_key_to_check’);
the _edit_lock is generated each time you edit a post or page. it consist the timecode and the user. so WordPress is knowing who is currently editing it. meta_id post_id meta_key meta_value 9 5 _edit_lock 1388386997:1 if you manipulate it WordPress reacts somehow sensitive …I tried to fetch how many seconds somebody worked on a … Read more
get_the_ID() can (only) be used within the loop. This retrieves the ID of the current post handled by the loop. You can use it on it’s own if you need it only once: $dish_meta = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), ‘dish_meta’, true ); You can also store it as a variable if you need it more than once: … Read more
TL;DR: This problem probably mostly happens when a boolean field is created as optional. You can fix it either by making it required, or using a more complex query to retrieve the default case. More details: There are two data representation problems going on here: one is which data values are being used to represent … Read more
If your up for using a plugin, Relevanssi – A Better Search might be worth trying out. The standard (free) version supports searching post meta.
I think, not 100% sure that this was the real reason the WP developers took this approach, but common sense tells me that serialize preserves the variable types and have a mini built in error detection, and json stores only string values { key : value }, so when you go back to PHP you … Read more
Get Archive SEO titles If you defined a Custom Post Type archive title you can get that by: $titles = get_option( ‘wpseo_titles’ ); $title = $titles[‘title-ptarchive-POST_TYPE’]; echo apply_filters( ‘the_title’, $title ); Remember to replace POST_TYPE by your own Custom Post Type. To display all the wpseo_title variables, you can use: printf( ‘<pre>%s</pre>’, print_r( get_option( ‘wpseo_titles’ … Read more
Doesn’t look like there’s any way to avoid it. The update_metadata() function, which is ultimately responsible for saving the meta, explicitly runs a stripslashes_deep() on the meta value. This function will even strip slashes from array elements, if the value were an array. Theres a filter that’s run AFTER that called sanitize_meta, which you could … Read more
You don’t need to loop through the values. Just use update_post_meta($post_ID, {key}, {array of vals}), it should do! <?php $poddata = Array( ‘pod_id’ => $this->pod_id, ‘url’ => $this->url, ‘name’ => $this->name, ‘description’ => $this->description, ‘service’ => $this->service, ‘status’ =>$this->status, ‘price’ => $this->price ); //Update inserts a new entry if it doesn’t exist, updates otherwise update_post_meta($post_ID, … Read more