First of all you have an if statement that is always false in your save function. I don’t see any input called wporg_field anywhere in your meta box, so most probably there is no such field – so that condition is false and no meta field is saved. Another problem is that you make wrong … Read more
Understanding the orderby in WP_Query?
Set global $wp_query/$post variable for dynamic page generation
I wouldn’t use taxonomies or custom fields for this purpose. Every time you’re add one custom field for a query, you have to add a JOIN part for that query – it means that with 10-15 custom fields, you’ll get query with 10-15 joins – so such query will be very slow. But there is … Read more
Filter posts in category archive page by year using a dropdown
I’ve figured out a fix. First, to fix bad results for an empty search, I require that (!empty(get_query_var(‘s’)) Before setting the “meta_query” query variable in my plugin. I thought the fix would be with the posts_request filter, but it continued to replace select SQL_CALC_GET_ROWS wp_posts.ID with select SQL_CALC_GET_ROWS wp_posts.* Even when I replaced the * … Read more
In answering my own question I have decide to go the pure SQL query route as WP runs too many queries in fetching a post and its attached post thumbnail, in addition to fetching and building meta for that thumbnail. Here is the code I ended up with: $query2 = “SELECT post.ID, post.post_title, thumbnail_url.meta_value as … Read more
$countries is not a number, but w WP_Query instance, so you can’t compare it with a number… This means that you should replace this: if ($countries > 7) { with: if ( $countries->found_posts > 7 ) { It will check if there are more than 8 countries that match your criteria. This way you can … Read more
How to order WP_Query by parent for hierarchical Custom Post Type?
WordPress Comments sort by custom meta key