If I’ve understood the case correctly your $args should be something like that: $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 5, // what ever you like ‘paged’ => $page, // page number tracker ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, // or change to custom ‘post_status’ => array( ‘draft’, ‘publish’ ), ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘meta-key’ => ‘pb_match_date’, ‘meta-compare’ => ‘EXISTS’ … Read more
search for single meta_key with numeric array of meta values
Return ACF Field value function
Ok, since we’re going the post meta route (as opposed to options), there’s a much cleaner and efficient way to grab a post by it’s title: if ( $info = get_page_by_title( ‘Business Info’, OBJECT, ‘post’ ) ) { // do stuff } Don’t let the page in the function name throw you off – the … Read more
How much post meta data is too much?
get_avatar() returns An img element for the user’s avatar or false on failure. The function does not output anything; you have to echo the return value. so you can try something like that if( get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( ‘ID’ ) ) == 0) { // no img code } else { echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( ‘ID’ ) , … Read more
Efficient way of querying for a “fallback” post?
Instead of making the custom field read-only, you can hide a custom field by prefixing the name of the custom field with an underscore. e.g _custom_field_name You can hide the field by disabling the input boxes using replacing CUSTOM_FIELD_NAME with the name of your custom field. jQuery(document).ready(function () { metaName = jQuery(“#postcustom input[value=”CUSTOM_FIELD_NAME”]”).attr(“id”); metaValue = … Read more
How about using a proper metabox framework for your project? I’m sure that`s not the single metabox you’ll be using. I recommend you https://metabox.io/meta-box/ – I used it on many of my projects and have features for dynamic fields as well. Happy new year!
You must add meta_key to your array. How else the query will know what meta value to use? Try adding ‘meta_key’ => ‘your_key’