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Store array as single, serialized post meta field or many post meta fields?

Serialized wp_watevermeta data causes performance problems only if you need to search for it. For example if you want to find all the red cars it’s faster to use a WP_Meta_Query operation than it is to read each car’s deserialized metadata and examine the data structure for the color. It’s slow, sometimes painfully slow, to … Read more

how to upload a image from frontend with wp_insert_post and also update_post_meta?

Excluding Specific Fields from Profile Builder Registration Form

Add post meta fields, when creating a post using WordPress’ REST API

I had to add this code from Stephen Mullen on StackOverflow to get it to work: add_action( “rest_insert_user_question”, function ( \WP_Post $post, $request, $creating ) { $metas = $request->get_param( “meta” ); if( is_array( $metas ) ) { foreach( $metas as $name => $value ) { // update_post_meta( $post->ID, $name, $value ); update_field( $name, $value, $post->ID … Read more

How to add custom metadata text box dropdown to sidebar in Gutenberg editor for all post types

The modern way to do is to use javascript, as Sally CJ noted in the comments. But, you can get the job done by doing it the old with add_meta_box(). When registering a custom metabox you need to set the context argument to side to make the metabox appear on the block editor sidebar. See … Read more

How to schedule a custom field value update?

Login WP – Connect single field to an external api

I apologize but I only now have a way to post my solution, maybe it can be useful to someone. Here is my solution to the problem: $new_user_id = wp_insert_user($userdata); $value = json_decode($response[‘body’], true)[‘Id’]; // get value from response you want to set update_field(‘field_60084ad3970a8’, $value, ‘user_’.$new_user_id);