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Repeatable custom meta select boxes

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To make this work… $meta == $item->ID ? ‘ selected=”selected”‘ : ”; … with an array like a:1:{i:0;s:3:”179″;} which unserializes to… Array ( [0] => 179 ) … you’d need to do this: $meta = unserialize($meta); $meta[0] == $item->ID ? ‘ selected=”selected”‘ : ”; But that line shows up inside a foreach like foreach($meta as … Read more

How do I capture the selected option and pass in sending the registration form?

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Way use jQery to populate the select field when you can use filter and hook into the form using PHP eg: //1. Add a new form element… add_action(‘register_form’,’_register_form_wpa103118′); function _register_form_wpa103118 (){ $name_of_select = ( isset( $_POST[‘name_of_select’] ) ) ? $_POST[‘name_of_select’]: ”; $options = array( ‘Medicine’ => ‘Medicine’, ‘Option2’ => ‘Option2’, ); ?> <p> <label for=”name_of_select”><?php … Read more

Select Menu for Custom post Type does not save

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This is a javascript issue. on line 52: $ret .= ‘<script>jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(“#videotype”).val(‘ . get_video_field(“videotype”) . ‘) });</script></div>’; In this specific bit: .val(‘ . get_video_field(“videotype”) . ‘) The value isn’t quoted, so it’s trying to reference a variable named youtube or vimeo, which doesn’t exist, instead of a literal text value. If you add quotes it’ll … Read more

Get post title by Alphabet

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You have two problems. First need to global $wpdb;. Then you are using the_title() and the_permalink() both of which automatically echo out a value. So you need to switch them to get_the_title() and get_permalink(). function get_post_by_alphabet($the_char){ global $wpdb; $first_char = $the_char; $postids=$wpdb->get_col($wpdb->prepare(” SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE SUBSTR($wpdb->posts.post_title,1,1) = %s ORDER BY $wpdb->posts.post_title”,$first_char)); if ($postids) … Read more

wpdb select from using array as search parameters

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Pass your information through prepare as in this example from the Codex: $metakey = “Harriet’s Adages”; $metavalue = “WordPress’ database interface is like Sunday Morning: Easy.”; $wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( ” INSERT INTO $wpdb->postmeta ( post_id, meta_key, meta_value ) VALUES ( %d, %s, %s ) “, array( 10, $metakey, $metavalue ) ) ); Your array should have … Read more

Can’t save drop down select date in meta boxes

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First of all, You don’t have to add ‘form’ html tag in the metabox. You missed to pass the ‘$post’ parameter to the function ‘display_post_options’ and you used selected() function wrong too. Here is the code after I updated it. function display_post_options( $post){ wp_nonce_field( basename( __FILE__ ), ‘post_options_nonce’ ); $post_options_select_value = get_post_meta($post->ID,’post_options_select’,true); ?> Choose Your … Read more