Function returning queried meta value based on current post ID
You can still do the AS with $wpdb, I find it still makes stuff look cleaner. You can use the $wpdb->prepare() method for sanitation. Are you looking for something like this? function combined_downloads($post_id) { global $wpdb; return $wpdb->get_var($wpdb->prepare( “SELECT SUM( meta_value ) FROM $wpdb->postmeta AS m LEFT JOIN $wpdb->posts AS p ON m.post_id = p.ID … Read more