I have a custom post type for events set up and am displaying the posts in a custom post type archive “archive-events.php”. I am using Advanced Custom Fields to put an event date “event_date” on each post, chosen by the user. The date is outputting in the format “yyyymmdd” example: “20141129”. I have it setup … Read more
Overview: I am not trying to return a post. I simply want the single highest value for a particular meta_value across all posts… just the value itself. Details: I have added a custom meta_key “price” to all my posts. The value is always an integer (no decimals or non-numeric characters). I am trying to do … Read more
I was wondering if anyone could tell me the max length of the meta_value field for posts and user meta. 1 Both usermeta.meta_value and postmeta.meta_value are stored as LONGTEXT. Here’s how the MySQL docs describe the size of a LONGTEXT data type: “A TEXT column with a maximum length of 4,294,967,295 or 4GB (232 – … Read more
I’m working on a custom taxonomy term page template where we want the items that are connected to the term sorted by a publication date (custom date field) – and if there are multiple items on the same day (formatted like YYYY-MM-DD) to then sort those by title, and finally sort by title if the … Read more
Three people have already tried to solve this, and we’re coming up nil. I want to show only posts that have a value in the meta_key ‘featured_image’. So… if ‘featured_image’ is not empty, show the post. Here’s the code: <ul> <?php $args = array( ‘showposts’ => 5, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘featured_image’, ‘value’ … Read more
