post-meta

How to add/update post meta to use in query?

You can use this function, which you’d add to the theme’s functions.php file, to update the average post rating which is saved in a private meta named _avg_rating (but you can of course rename it) — private meta has their name starting with an underscore (_): function update_post_avg_rating( $comment_id, $post_id = 0 ) { if … Read more

Using a comma instead of a pipe to separate metadata

The default way WordPress separates different types of meta data, such as in the post meta data, is using a pipe |. For example, Author Name | Date | Cat1, cat2, cat3 This isn’t correct. WordPress doesn’t have a default way that it displays this information. It’s entirely up to the theme developer. if you’d … Read more

How can i show post views using specified post ID?

You can pass post id as argument in the views function. Please check following example. An optional argument is passed in the function. If nothing is passed, id is fetched from get_the_ID(). if ( !function_exists( ‘mvp_post_views’ ) ) { function mvp_post_views( $post_id = ” ){ if ( $post_id ) { $post_id = absint( $post_id ); … Read more

Update post meta date always store 1970-01-07

With debugging enabled, you should have gotten the following message: Notice: A non well formed numeric value encountered This is because strtotime() expects an integer as its second argument. You could use it like so $date = date(‘Y-m-d’, strtotime(‘+1 week’, strtotime($lejar_datum))); or if you want to use the more modern approach with DateTime $dt = … Read more

Get table parameter and save in meta value

Keep in mind that if you leave this on the init action, this will occur on every page load. If you only want this to occur once or during another action, you’ll need to change this. This will also timeout if you try to execute this on too many posts. function update_my_metadata() { $args = … Read more

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