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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [adding jquery to custom meta box](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-jquery-to-custom-meta-box/)
 *  Thread Starter [binarybit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarybit/)
 * (@binarybit)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-jquery-to-custom-meta-box/#post-1575960)
 * thanks for your suggestions. I will give this a try as well but I ended up going
   with a jquery plugin which simplified things for my needs.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [Custom post types plugins : benchmark](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-plugins-benchmark/)
 *  [binarybit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarybit/)
 * (@binarybit)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-plugins-benchmark/#post-1553458)
 * Thanks guys for your assistance here but I was just using that taxonomy image
   as one example.
 * Without going into a great deal of details… I need custom meta values for various
   areas. For example… regarding the Washington Post one… I wanted to have a page
   dedicated to that specific term on which I can show a bunch of meta fields/details
   on each news source (an image being one of them).
 * I am almost shocked that this is not available…?..!
 * I thought I read somewhere that the wp-users database and the categories database
   now allows for additional custom meta fields to be assigned… Am I wrong with 
   this?
 * Anyone happen to know if I could just trick the “description” field into thinking
   its the “meta” data field, removing it from the admin UI and creating my own 
   meta field essentially replicating the same functions used for post types?
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [Custom post types plugins : benchmark](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-plugins-benchmark/)
 *  [binarybit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarybit/)
 * (@binarybit)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-plugins-benchmark/#post-1553455)
 * Sorry for this longer post but this is the only place I feel smart people might
   visit who can advise me to my taxonomy issue:
 * I am attempting to achieve something which I thought would be really simple with
   wordpress 3.0 but it seems to be far more complicated than I originally thought.
   My hope is that someone (maybe you: nicomollet) can correctly provide me some
   example code on how to achieve this.
 * In its most basic element lets just say that I am creating a custom post type
   for “news” which I have in place already. Now… all I want to really be able to
   do is create a simple drop down where the author selects the news “source”. For
   example one entry would be the “The Washington Post”.
 * Up to this point I think everything works perfectly fine but were my complication
   comes into play is that I want to associate a custom thumbnail image with each
   of these new sources.
 * Now… my hope was that I could setup each “new source” as a taxonomy entry so 
   I could manage of all of them from one interface but it seems that each taxonomy
   can’t have any custom meta-fields associated with it.
 * Just to clarify this once more: I believe the solution is creating a custom meta
   box with the ability to upload a image and associate it with a specific entry
   to specific taxonomy group (in this case news sources).
 * Naturally it would of course be possible to add such a meta box directly into
   the custom post type for “news” or hard code it into the post type but this won’t
   work for me because news sources are being added all the time.
 * By being able to have custom fields associated with each taxonomy entry I would
   be able to just query the custom fields for that taxonomy and present the applicable
   image.
 * Am I loosing my mind here or is this really not possible? If not I would be shocked
   because there are so many areas where I would see such functions as highly valuable.
 * If ANYONE might be able to provide me with what I need to enter into my functions.
   php file to make this work I would GREATLY GREATLY appreciate it!
 * BTW – nicomollet… excellent writeup, this helped me out a great deal. The only
   thing I believe you did not cover which I was always curious about was the actual
   system load these plugins have when comparing them to one another and then comparing
   the use of using a plugin compared to writing the code in manually into your 
   functions.php file… anyone have any comment on this? I am always worried about
   when systems like this start bogging down the entire site…
 * Thanks in advance to anyone who might respond here!
 *   Forum: [Alpha/Beta/RC](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/alphabeta/)
    In 
   reply to: [WordPress 3.0 – Assign Domain to Post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-30-assign-domain-to-post/)
 *  [binarybit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarybit/)
 * (@binarybit)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-30-assign-domain-to-post/#post-1480796)
 * bump
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [adding jquery to custom meta box](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-jquery-to-custom-meta-box/)
 *  Thread Starter [binarybit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarybit/)
 * (@binarybit)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-jquery-to-custom-meta-box/#post-1575938)
 * bump…?
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Custom Post Type (Post List Template)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-post-list-template/)
 *  Thread Starter [binarybit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarybit/)
 * (@binarybit)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-post-list-template/#post-1572294)
 * Is this really the only options… there is nothing which lets me create a type
   of list template for a post type??? I find this hard to believe that they did
   everything except for that for simple integration of these type of posts…
 *   Forum: [Alpha/Beta/RC](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/alphabeta/)
    In 
   reply to: [WordPress 3.0 – Assign Domain to Post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-30-assign-domain-to-post/)
 *  [binarybit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarybit/)
 * (@binarybit)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-30-assign-domain-to-post/#post-1480791)
 * is this the solution?
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [I have simple but urgent issue with limiting results for query_posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-have-simple-but-urgent-issue-with-limiting-results-for-query_posts/)
 *  Thread Starter [binarybit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarybit/)
 * (@binarybit)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-have-simple-but-urgent-issue-with-limiting-results-for-query_posts/#post-1406663)
 * BTW – I “think” it is important to note that in my original code I was first 
   doing a call to get ALL of the posts and in the second part I am telling the 
   system to just present the ones based on all posts which have the custom field
   for the event date…
 * I am assuming that the second part might need to be merged into the first query
   otherwise I guess the correct 3 most upcoming event posts won’t show up… am I
   correct with this?
 * How would this be done? Anyone able to just rewrite/organize the code correctly
   so I can copy and past it in and see if it works?
 * Thanks in advance!
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [I have simple but urgent issue with limiting results for query_posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-have-simple-but-urgent-issue-with-limiting-results-for-query_posts/)
 *  Thread Starter [binarybit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarybit/)
 * (@binarybit)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-have-simple-but-urgent-issue-with-limiting-results-for-query_posts/#post-1406659)
 * Thank you t31os_ for the information but although I have implemented your suggestion
   I am not not getting any results.
 * Below please find the code being run. Please let me know if I have integrated
   this incorrectly. Also, I have tried it with the “global $wp_query;” under the
   $today = strtotime(date(“m/d/Y”)); which did not change the results.
 * Any assistance is greatly appreciate!!!
 *     ```
       <?php
       	//Get the metadata for each child page
       	$today = strtotime(date("m/d/Y"));
       	$paged = get_query_var('paged') ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
       	query_posts(array('meta_key'=>'event_start_date','orderby'=>'meta_value','cat'=>25,'order'=>'ASC','posts_per_page'=>3,'paged'=>$paged));
       	if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
           <?php  //Get all Events and run a check against current date
               $show_date =  strtotime(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'event_start_date', true));
               if($show_date >= $today) { ?>
       	<div id="homepage-events-list-container-group">
       		   <?php if(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'event_end_time', true) != ''){ ?>
                            <div id="homepage-events-list-container-left">
       			<div id="homepage-events-list-date"><?php echo get('event_start_date'); ?></div>
       			<div id="homepage-events-list-time"><?php echo get('event_start_time'); ?> - <?php echo get('event_end_time'); ?></div>
       			</div>
                          <?php } else { ?>
                            <div id="homepage-events-list-container-left">
       			<div id="homepage-events-list-date"><?php echo get('event_start_date'); ?></div>
       			<div id="homepage-events-list-time"><?php echo get('event_start_time'); ?></div>
       			</div>
                          <?php } ?>
                  	<div id="homepage-events-list-container-right">
       		<div id="homepage-events-list-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php echo the_title(); ?></a></div>
       		<div id="homepage-events-list-excerpt">
       		<b><?php echo get('event_type'); ?></b> - <?php echo substr(get_the_excerpt(),0,115); echo '...  ' ?></div>
       		</div>
                   </div>
           <?php } ?>
   
       <?php endwhile; endif; ?>
       ```
   
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [I have simple but urgent issue with limiting results for query_posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-have-simple-but-urgent-issue-with-limiting-results-for-query_posts/)
 *  Thread Starter [binarybit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarybit/)
 * (@binarybit)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-have-simple-but-urgent-issue-with-limiting-results-for-query_posts/#post-1406629)
 * First of all, thank you very much for the information.
 * I have made the applicable changes that you suggested but I am still getting 
   the same exact results as before meaning I am NOT getting just the 3 posts showing
   up as desired.
 * Any other help would be greatly appreciated!
 * Here is my code right now:
 *     ```
       <?php
       	//Get the metadata for each child page
               $today = strtotime(date("m/d/Y"));
       	 global $wp_query;
               query_posts(array('meta_key'=>'event_start_date','orderby'=>'meta_value','cat'=>25,'order'=>'ASC','posts_per_page'=>-1),array('showposts'=>3));
       	 if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
           <?php  //Get all Events and run a check against current date
               $show_date =  strtotime(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'event_start_date', true));
               if($show_date >= $today) { ?>
       	<div id="homepage-events-list-container-group">
       		   <?php if(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'event_end_time', true) != ''){ ?>
                            <div id="homepage-events-list-container-left">
       			<div id="homepage-events-list-date"><?php echo get('event_start_date'); ?></div>
       			<div id="homepage-events-list-time"><?php echo get('event_start_time'); ?> - <?php echo get('event_end_time'); ?></div>
       			</div>
                          <?php } else { ?>
                            <div id="homepage-events-list-container-left">
       			<div id="homepage-events-list-date"><?php echo get('event_start_date'); ?></div>
       			<div id="homepage-events-list-time"><?php echo get('event_start_time'); ?></div>
       			</div>
                          <?php } ?>
                  	<div id="homepage-events-list-container-right">
       		<div id="homepage-events-list-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php echo the_title(); ?></a></div>
       		<div id="homepage-events-list-excerpt">
       		<b><?php echo get('event_type'); ?></b> - <?php echo substr(get_the_excerpt(),0,115); echo '...  ' ?></div>
       		</div>
                   </div>
           <?php } ?>
   
       <?php endwhile; endif; ?>
       ```
   

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