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1. Nir
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Hello There,

   First, great plugin, thanks for that.

   Second, I tried adding (or updating) custom fields using the wordpress function add_post_meta() (or update). For some reason this didn't work with the plugin and the values did not show right on the post. I noticed that the plugin uses a json format for the custom fields, is the another function I should use, instead of the regular wordpress one ?

   Thanks in advance,

   Nir.

2. XYDAC
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Hey Nir,
   As you have seen i use a different format to store data, The format is as below:
   meta_name : {field_name}
   meta value : array({field_type} => {field_value})
   If you wanna coin a function yourself then you can, Else i'll write it up sometimes later..:)

   Regards,
   -Xydac

3. Nir
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   can You show and example of using the add_post_meta/update_post_meta with your format ?

   Thanks.

4. XYDAC
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   update_post_meta(post->ID,$field_name,array('text'=>$field_value));

   this should work, else i would check it out later when i return. I am traveling right now.

   Regards,
   -Xydac

5. Nir
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Thanks a lot,

   Two more questions:

   1. what if the key is not 'text' ? could that be ?

   2. how do You get the value - please show an example of get_post_meta().

   Again, thanks in advance,

   Nir

6. XYDAC
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Hey,

   1. yes it's possible that key is not text, it's different for each field type. look for $name='' in fieldtype/class-fieldtype.php files.

   2.get_post_meta() should work as follow :

   global $post;
   $val = get_post_meta($post->ID, {field_name}, true);
   echo $val[{fieldtype}];

   for example if field type = text, fieldname = username then

   global $post;
   $val = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'username', true);
   echo $val['text'];

   Hope this solves your problem,
   BTW sorry for delay in response.

   Regards,
   -Xydac

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