How are Custom Fields stored? Inside wp_postmeta?

  • Resolved braino

    (@braino)


    3 years, 1 month ago

    Hi there. I am trying to index your Custom Fields with “Ajax Search Pro” (https://codecanyon.net/item/ajax-search-pro-for-wordpress-live-search-plugin/3357410) and already contacted their support.

    The issue is that the plugin doesn’t find your data and so I kindly ask you to please confirm me something:

    This is what they said:

    If the fields does not show up in the list when you are searching for them, that means they simply does not exist for sure in the wp_postmeta table. There are multiple reasons that could happen:
    1. if the field is not in use yet: no values have been assigned to it on a post/post type object. Once there is at least one post/cpt with a field value it will show up
    2. the actual field name is different from the label name
    3. the field is not actually a post meta field, but stored in a different table

    So my question is: Is the data for custom fields stored inside wp_postmeta or somewhere else?

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  • Plugin Author Paolo

    (@paoltaia)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    it’s n 3. Custom fields are store in custom DB tables for scalability purposes.

    Thanks

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