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Can A Post Meta Field Store multiple values that are not in an array?

Meta data keys do not have to be unique, you can have multiple rows of the same key, each containing singular values. If you use get_post_meta to fetch a key and don’t set the 3rd argument to true, the function gets all the individual values and returns them as an array, which is not the … Read more

Categories post-meta Tags array, post-meta, sanitization

String taken from database table post_meta is showing HTML tags on Frontend

Use the htmlspecialchars() function in PHP in the templates, because the wordpress-api does htmlspecialchars on import. The following code works fine <?php print htmlspecialchars_decode(get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘field_name’, true)); ?>

Categories post-meta Tags post-meta

How to remove Date from Meta Description on SERP?

If anyone else encounters this, check your source code and try and find the date in question to see where it’s being inputted, Googlebot normally finds these dates there. It turned out the Googlebot was picking up a date in the footer of my site, via the WordPress Latest Posts Widget, where I had selected … Read more

Categories post-meta Tags date, genesis-theme-framework, plugin-wp-seo-yoast, post-meta, seo

Reset/delete post views meta/custom field after X hours or minutes or seconds

Your code for scheduling event isn’t correct, here is the correct one: function hits_set_zero_schedule() { if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( ‘hits_set_to_zero’) ) wp_schedule_event( time(), ‘daily’, ‘hits_set_zero’ ); } add_action( ‘wp’, ‘hits_set_zero_schedule’ ); function hits_set_zero_func() { delete_post_meta( $post_id, ‘post_views_count’, true ); } add_action( ‘hits_set_zero’, ‘hits_set_zero_func’ ); Also, you can define intervals otherwise than daily by adding a … Read more

Categories post-meta Tags post-meta, wp-cron

Mass removing CSS from 1,700 post [closed]

You can remove them by replacing the line( .alignleft { float: left; } ) with empty space in database ( but you should avoid using SQL query). Make sure you have back up before trying anything. There is a php script which i used for replacing my loclahost url to live site url while migrating … Read more

Categories post-meta Tags blogger, post-editor, post-meta

Updating my Post when expiry date is past

You seem to confuse WP_Meta_Query with WP_Query obviously they are not the same and you can not use the first by itself to loop over post.

Categories post-meta Tags post-meta, wp-update-post

Look up all posts by status or meta value – performance difference

As mentioned in the comments, post_status is stored in the posts table but postmeta values are stores in postmeta table which is usually a much more heavy table than posts. Using a meta in db queries, results in adding a JOIN clause to the query to join this heavy table! So using post_status is definitely … Read more

Categories post-meta Tags get-posts, post-meta

How to check if a post meta key/value pair already exists for a specific post

According to the docs of get_post_meta(), you could try relying on the return value of the get_post_meta() function, or use the get_post_custom_keys() function. N.B. If you’re going for the first option, you could use the object operator -> to get the meta value from the post, and circumvent having to call get_post_meta() yourself. View it … Read more

Categories post-meta Tags meta-query, post-meta

Gutenberg: How to display meta field data in the block frontend (save function)

From the docs: https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/reference-guides/block-api/block-edit-save/#save Note: The save function should be a pure function that depends only on the attributes used to invoke it. It can not have any side effect or retrieve information from another source, e.g. it is not possible to use the data module inside it select( store ).selector( … ). This is … Read more

Categories post-meta Tags block-editor, post-meta

How to test the outcome of a wpdb query?

First of all, you should look into using WP_Query for this: http://scribu.net/wordpress/advanced-metadata-queries.html Secondly, to see the results, just do a var_dump() before the return: echo ‘<pre>’; var_dump( $data );

Categories post-meta Tags post-meta, wpdb
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