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need to add add user names to the post for later retrieval or removal

Decided going to use comments system to implement this feature.

Compare string with post id in wpdb and do stuff when match is found

This is what I ended up using, turned out I didn’t need to apply the meta value to the child pages since I used another approach. Hopefully it’s useful for someone. $row = $wpdb->get_row(“SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID =’$post_id'”); $new_order = $order[$page[‘depth’]]; $new_order = $wpdb->escape($new_order); $current_order = $row->menu_order; if($current_order != $new_order) { switch ($new_order) … Read more

Get a row from a separate table by matching a posts meta_key to a tables ID column

global $wpdb; /* grab meta value, it is assumed you know the post id ($id) in question */ $dot_number = get_post_meta( $id, ‘dot_number’, true ); /* grab all rows with matching value in ‘dot_number’ column */ $matches_query = $wpdb->get_results( “SELECT * FROM ” . $wpdb->prefix . “csadata ” . “WHERE dot_number = ” . $dot_number, … Read more

Editing does not change post_name

Add Embed.ly API objects to post_meta on update

Custom RSS Feeds & Post Meta Data

Meta function issue

Well, it doesn’t work for a very god reason. <div class=”blog_entry”> Posted by –<a href=”#” class=”normaltip” title=”Posted By”> <?php the_author(); ?></a> – Category –<?php __(“https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/141754/%1$s”) ?> – <?php __(‘%3$s’) ?> – <a href=”single_blog.html” class=”normaltip” title=”Comments”><?php comments_number( ‘no responses’, ‘one response’, ‘% responses’ ); ?></a> <?php __(‘%2$s’) ?> </div> This part … Read more