In my little age with WordPress, I’ve seen WordPress itself and its friendly plugins are using PHP serialize() in storing data into db in many cases. But in a recent search I found a serious community support for the json_encode() over the serialize().
I run a multiple author platform and to improve the moderation, I want to add a couple of assisting editors. I want to add a custom box to the Post page where the assisting editor can confirm which tasks they have completed.
I haven’t found a solution to displaying multiple postmeta meta_key/meta_values by SQL query of a post. I am using the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin on another website and trying to pull the contents of the posts on a secondary website. Everything displays well except it is not able to display more meta_values.
I’m working on a site at the moment for an orchestra. The various members need to be listed, according to their instrument. The members have a custom post type of biography and I’m capturing the instrument value via a custom field.
I want to save two versions of my custom meta box data called “sidebar”. I want to compare a new and old version of this data later on, so that is why I want to save a copy of the current “sidebar” to a field called “sidebar_old”, just before saving a new version. Here’s my attempt at doing just that:
Basically, I need to alter the info the user inputs into an advanced custom fields textbox before it is written to the database but I don’t know how to grab it. I can only get it after it has been written to the meta portion of the database by using get_field(). Answers: Thank you for … Read more
I’m using a custom post type for a portfolio. I have a few option in there, bring saved by update_post_meta(), it seems to work fine, but then out of the blue (within the hour), the data deletes its self. I have looked in the DB and all custom metadata values are empty.
I’ve created a custom post, events, and saved the meta data event_year to each event. I’m trying to get a year’s event archive. When I go the the following URL, the meta_key and meta_value are not set for some reason, and thus the event archive is unfiltered.
I recently updated my website after a while, and the custom fields meta box is not showing in the editor anymore. It isn’t showing under “Screen Options” either. Any ideas why this could be, and how to get it back?
In my post meta data I have the following ‘key’ for every post:
“image_details” a typical value of which is an array such as: