args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘product’, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘brand’, ‘value’ => ‘crocs’, ‘compare’ => ‘LIKE’ ) ) ); $query = new WP_Query( $args ); http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query
Instead of directly grabbing the meta, wrap it in a function, then you can provide a default, or, comment out the innards and just return “this”
When you have that much code to output concatenating it into one string like that makes it very difficult to read for others and yourself, also, to debug when things go wrong. Try this method for concatenating your output, $blogusers = get_users(‘role=contributor&orderby=display_name’); foreach ($blogusers as $user) { $name = $user->display_name; $url = get_author_posts_url($user->ID, $author_nicename); $class … Read more
I would suggest a different approach. The option for manually adding post excerpt should go in a theme option as opposed to a custom field. Also you should use this hook for modifying the excerpt’s more text http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/excerpt_more If the user is supposed to enter custom excerpt on a per-post basis, they can do it … Read more
Take a look at this tutorial (Build a Short URL Service with WordPress Custom Post Types) that show how to create this kind of redirection or you can use a plugin that does that for you GoTo Redirect
Not sure if this help. If you use normal wordpress loop to query post or pages then you can do this by using query_posts You need to place a line of query_posts before the loop start and it might look something like this ( you might need to add some more parameter for getting only … Read more
I can’t really speak to the performance simply because I’ve not dug in to the internals. But from a pure logic approach the custom meta makes more sense to me. The reason being that, at least from your description, you only really need a single field for each post/page. All you’re doing is reading a … Read more
I think that your main problem is that you are trying to display the results with searchform.php. That is basically just the form for the search, which you don’t need since you have your own form in the sidebar (if I understand you correctly). The results of a WP search are displayed with “search.php“
The WP_Query class will automatically AND any filters that are set. In your case, using $query->set( ‘meta_query’, … ) means that WordPress will be looking for posts from the current author (because this is the author template) AND that have your custom meta key. From my understanding of your problem, this intentionally will never happen, … Read more
You can use the meta_query parameter to display all events for the current month like this: $start_date = date( ‘ym01’ ); $end_date = date( ‘ymt’ ); $meta_query = array( ‘key’ => ‘event_date’, ‘value’ => array( $start_date, $end_date ), ‘compare’ => ‘BETWEEN’, ‘type’ => ‘NUMERIC’ ); $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘hh_event’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ‘orderby’ … Read more