I am using the More Fields plugin which gives me the ability to create a date formatted YYYY/mm/dd and I want to convert that to be shown like: February 11, 2011 Is this possible? 3 Answers 3 Do you have issue with exactly converting or retrieval? Converting is trivial and is plain PHP: date(‘F j, … Read more
Is it possible to check if a custom field exists for a given post within the loop? For example, I’m using functions like get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘Company’, true); preceded by a <h4> tag, but I’d like to check to make sure that there is a value for the custom field “Company” before writing the <h4>. Is this … Read more
I am curious without doing a ton of benchmarks, how others feel about using several custom meta fields on a blog post? I am talking strictly performance wise, does it slow things down a lot if using a lot of fields, should we try to keep them to a minimum? Currently for a regular blog … Read more
I searched for a while but I didn’t find any solution. I used the functions listed here. It outputs something like this: Array ( [0] => 15 [1] => 30 [2] => 50 ) But I want something like this: Array ( [post_id_1] => 15 [post_id_2] => 30 [post_id_3] => 50 ) And this is … Read more
In my plugin, I use these instructions to obtain a list of posts: $args = array( ‘numberposts’ => -1, ‘offset’ => 0, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘metadata1’, ‘value’ => ’80’, ‘compare’ => ‘<=’, ‘type’ => ‘UNSIGNED’ ), array( ‘key’ => ‘metadata2’, ‘value’ => ‘4.6’, ‘compare’ => ‘<=’, ‘type’ => ‘DECIMAL’ ), ), ‘post_type’ … Read more
I have over 1000 posts. Each post has a custom field XYZ. I’m looking for a function that I can run once that will assign a value of 1 to each of the posts’ custom field XYZ. I’ve had a look at this but i’m not getting how to put it into a one-time-run function? … Read more
I’ve created custom taxonomy called ‘cities’ where you can add cities and added custom field ( radio button ) with 2 options: ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ ( never mind what that is ). Everythins is ok, I can get that value and other stuff. Later on I came with idea to add a sortable column ( … Read more
I have custom fields in my custom post type. They should serve as a title and post slug for URL. Basically, whenever I change the content of the custom fields, the title field should react accordingly. E.g. if the field NAME contains ‘John’ and the SURNAME ‘Smith’, the title should transform to ‘John Smith’. The … Read more
I’ll admit, I’m not a PHP expert, nor am I familiar with all of the WordPress functions and hooks. I’ve been stuck on an issue, searching for help without much success, and I was hoping that someone could help point me in the right direction. I have a form. The user selects a specialty, location, … Read more
I want to order WP posts by meta key named “sort_date” and if it doesn’t exist it should use the post’s published date to order posts. Below is the code i am currently using function pre_get_posts_custom($wp_query) { if ( !is_admin() && $wp_query->is_main_query() && !is_page() ) { $meta_key = ‘sort_date’; $wp_query->set( ‘post_type’, array( ‘post’, ‘article’ ) … Read more
