Database tables for sports betting integrated in WordPress

This can be achieved by creating a custom post type called for example, sports_picks Custom Post Types can also be extended with the use of Custom Fields and Custom MetaBoxes which means you’re not limited to using Title and Description input fields only, but instead you’re able to create a Post Type that meets your … Read more

Re-creating a WordPress database

If the database is gone, your posts, pages, widget settings and other such data is gone. There’s no way to “recreate” the old database. You need to reinstall WP and start with a site with no content. If you have a copy of the theme and actual code modifications, that’s good. There is a difference … Read more

Php Mysql Terms

What you just found in your database is the serialized form of an array. For the sake of understanding the concept, see the PHP manual on the serialize function. As an aside: Apart from the fact, that you found this in a WP database though, this question is not WP specific and actually beyond the … Read more

post id not displaying

You call your header.php file by calling get_header() function in single.php file. It means that your $postid_profile variable exists only in scope of get_header() function. To make it visible in global scope you need to make your variable global. So your code should be modified like this: ### get the author info global $current_user, $postid_profile; … Read more

wpdb->insert not inserting first variable

I don’t see anything wrong with the code as far as $first_name is concerned. My guess is that your actual DB column name is spelled incorrectly in the schema, or is otherwise improperly set up (maybe it’s the wrong type, length, etc.). This doesn’t answer your question, but I do have a tip: when a … Read more

PHP variables in mysql query

To insert a new row: global $wpdb; $wpdb->insert( ‘wp_mytable’, array( ‘product’ => $product ), array( ‘%s’ ) ); For the sake of completeness, $wpdb->update is used to update an existing row and requires an additional WHERE clause, as would a “regular” SQL query. For example: global $wpdb; $wpdb->update( ‘wp_mytable’, array( ‘product’ => $product ), array( … Read more

Pull post name from value of a specific meta key

Here is a function that loops through all your posts and checks if the post_name is equal to your post_meta_value. If not it updates the post_name to whatever the post_meta value is. function wpse_get_update_posts() { $posts = get_posts( array( ‘posts_per_page’ => -1 ) ); foreach ( $posts as $post ) { if ( $post->post_name == … Read more