Custom Query Arguments

/** * Define a new function that uses $args and wp_parse_args() */ function explain_parse_args( $args ) { $defaults = array ( ‘text’ => ‘wp_parse_args() merges $args into $defaults’, ‘before’ => “”, ‘after’ => ” \n”, ‘echo’ => TRUE ); // Parse incomming $args into an array and merge it with $defaults $args = wp_parse_args( $args, … Read more

Need Advice to Working with Custom Post Meta

If it where me id store each question as a ‘question’ type meta as a stored array. WordPress automatically serializes your array before storing it. So then when you use get_post_meta($post_id, ‘question’) it will return an array of serialized strings.(I think, Im pretty sure it wont unserialize it for you if there are more than … Read more

Custom MySQL query to list post

You don’t need to use query_posts function. It could be done without it. Use setup_postdata function to set up global post data. $sql = ” SELECT p.* FROM orders_items oi INNER JOIN products pr ON pr.`post_id` = oi.`product_id` INNER JOIN posts p ON p.`ID` = pr.`post_id` AND p.`post_type` = ‘product’ GROUP BY oi.`product_id` ORDER BY … Read more

Accessing + retrieving custom database in WordPress

It is OK. And you can access this table with standard way, throught wpdb To insert data to your table use this code: global $wpdb; $wpdb->insert( ‘exampleTable’, array( ‘column1’ => ‘value1’, ‘column2’ => 123 ), array( ‘%s’, ‘%d’ ) ); To breafly explain what this code mean. WordPress sanitizes values before inserting them into database … Read more

Search results load individual post in slide out div

Since you wanted best-practices, methods, advice, here is my take on how you should proceed: First of all, divide the content of your page in two ideal spaces, the list of posts, and the content. Something like this: <nav class=”post-navigation”> <ul> <li> <h2>{Post title}</h2> <p>{Excerpt} [&hellip;]</p> <p><a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/87312/{post-permalink}”>Read more &rarr;</a></p> </li> </ul> </nav> <section class=”post-content”></section> … Read more

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