______UPDATE_______ Though I’m getting more and more votes, and the solution works, but cybmeta’s answer is actually the answer that is nice and WordPress’ way. You should definitely try that. Step 1 Start by making an Advanced Search Form with which you want your user will interact with the website, and save it with a … Read more
When Working with pages you can select a parent page and that value is saved as the parent page id number in the child page’s post_parent field in the database. In your case, you are using a custom post type so you would need to create your own metabox for the parent page; something like: … Read more
TL;DR: This problem probably mostly happens when a boolean field is created as optional. You can fix it either by making it required, or using a more complex query to retrieve the default case. More details: There are two data representation problems going on here: one is which data values are being used to represent … Read more
Awesome combining both the answers from Mike and Jan I came up with this which works only on the post type in question. We don’t need the conditional of show because the ‘future_show’ hook only grabs the post type of show and updates that. <?php function setup_future_hook() { // Replace native future_post function with replacement … Read more
The best place to flush rewrite rules is on plugin activation/deactivation. function myplugin_activate() { // register taxonomies/post types here flush_rewrite_rules(); } register_activation_hook( __FILE__, ‘myplugin_activate’ ); function myplugin_deactivate() { flush_rewrite_rules(); } register_deactivation_hook( __FILE__, ‘myplugin_deactivate’ ); See the codex article Apologies in advance, I didn’t make it all the way through your question, so this is a … Read more
It’s the nature of the WordPress template hierarchy – point being, if you don’t have a page.php, it will use singular.php, same if you don’t have single.php, it will fallback to a template lower in the hierarchy. Ideal for themes that have the same layout for posts/pages, instead of having duplicate code in each respective … Read more
You can use either search parameter of wp_query : Code $args = array(“post_type” => “mytype”, “s” => $title); $query = get_posts( $args ); Or you can get posts based on title throught wpdb class: global $wpdb; $myposts = $wpdb->get_results( $wpdb->prepare(“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_title LIKE ‘%s'”, ‘%’. $wpdb->esc_like( $title ) .’%’) ); Than you’ll … Read more
If we peek into the global $wp_taxonomies variable we see the associated object types. There might be better ways to do this or even core functions, but you could try the following: function wpse_172645_get_post_types_by_taxonomy( $tax = ‘category’ ) { global $wp_taxonomies; return ( isset( $wp_taxonomies[$tax] ) ) ? $wp_taxonomies[$tax]->object_type : array(); } then for the … Read more
That’s how you can do first part of the job – get rid o CPT slug in post link (eg. news post type). function df_custom_post_type_link( $post_link, $id = 0 ) { $post = get_post($id); if ( is_wp_error($post) || ‘news’ != $post->post_type || empty($post->post_name) ) return $post_link; return home_url(user_trailingslashit( “$post->post_name” )); } add_filter( ‘post_type_link’, ‘df_custom_post_type_link’ , … Read more
Some of these questions are answered here: Set Default Admin Screen options & Metabox Order To remove the permalink metabox: function my_remove_meta_boxes() { remove_meta_box(‘slugdiv’, ‘my-post-type’, ‘core’); } add_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘my_remove_meta_boxes’ ); additionaly, you will have to hide #edit-slug-box with css or javascript. see: Loading External Scripts in Admin but ONLY for a Specific Post Type? … Read more