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.
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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
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
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
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 );
Should I save this mulit dementional arary as one post meta?
In most cases its better to store the meta as a single array and in that save database queries. The only down side to storing the data as an array is it’s nearly impossible to query based on sirealized data. So my rule is if i need to query based on that data the it … Read more
Time & Date on Post – Time Ago Custom Function
$mytimestamp = date(get_option(‘date_format’), strtotime($date)) . ‘ at ‘ . date(get_option(‘time_format’), strtotime($date));
query posts and split meta information into separate div’s
You’ll have a difficult time doing that with wp_list_pages(). You will need to create a custom query loop, using either WP_Query() or get_posts(). Custom loop with 4 most recent posts <?php $recent_posts_query_args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 4 ); $recent_posts = new WP_Query( $recent_posts_query_args ); // Open custom loop if ( $recent_posts->have_posts() ) : while ( … Read more
Save post meta foreach loop
This should be work: foreach ($_POST[‘_meta’] as $value) { update_post_meta($post_id, $value[‘key’], $value[‘value’]); }
get_permalink vs the_permalink
If we look at get_permalink in source, we’ll see the various filters applied to this function. For posts, it’s post_link, for custom post types, it’s post_type_link, for pages it’s page_link, and attachments is attachment_link.