post-meta

How can I display my meta value in a textarea? [closed]

The value of the textarea must be printed between the opening and the closing tag: <form action=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”> <textarea name=”whatever”><?php echo esc_textarea( $description ); ?></textarea> </form> Note the usage of the function esc_textarea() here. It prevents any possible character inside the variable $description from being interpreted as HTML. It’s an important step to avoid possibly XSS … Read more

Parse error thrown by get_post_meta [closed]

This is known as array dereferencing and is only available in PHP 5.4+ To support older versions, you need to assign the array, and then access the index: $data = get_post_meta( $product_id, ‘_product_image_gallery’ ); $gallery_pictures_id = $data[0]; Having said that, in your case use the third argument “single”: $gallery_pictures_id = get_post_meta( $product_id, ‘_product_image_gallery’, true );

Counting number of identical meta keys

You have a structural problem with your data. Serialized data in the database is terrible if you need to search over pieces of that serialized data. There is no reliable, efficient, and certainly no easy, SQL query to search over serialized data. “serialization” is a PHP mechanism. It isn’t SQL. To the database that is … Read more

get_post_meta of multiple posts?

why not add a filed to user meta once they have voted and just check to see if that specific user can vote? add to your add vote function this lines: global $current_user; get_currentuserinfo(); add_user_meta( $current_user->ID , ‘voted’, true ); now if a user votes it saves a usermeta filed. then you can create a … Read more

Why values dont shows in custom post column?

add_action( ‘manage_post_custom_column’, ‘price_column_display’, 10, 2 ); This line is wrong. I think it should be: add_action( ‘manage_catalog_post_custom_column’, ‘price_column_display’, 10, 2 ); The hook format is as follows: manage_{$post_type}_posts_custom_column EDIT: try your custom column code like the following code. I know in this format it works: add_action(‘manage_stores_posts_custom_column’, ‘sc_stores_manage_columns’, 10, 2); function sc_stores_manage_columns($column_name, $id) { $custom = … Read more

get_children filter with postmeta

This should do the trick: global $wpdb; $parent = 1; // Make sure it’s int (intval() it) as it’s not escaped in the query $posts = $wpdb->get_results( “SELECT `post_id` AS `ID`, `meta_value` AS `Progress` FROM {$wpdb->postmeta} WHERE `meta_key`=’task_progress’ AND `meta_value` < 100 AND `ID` IN (SELECT `post_id` FROM {$wpdb->posts} WHERE `post_parent`={$parent}) ORDER BY `meta_value` DESC, … Read more

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