Fred Meyer / July 5, 2016 Posted In: Back-End Development Tags: hooks, pre_get_posts, Up and Running, WordPress APIs, WordPress functions Difficulty: Advanced, Intermediate In WordPress, pre_get_posts is an action that makes it possible to modify an existing WP_Query, before that query is actually run. pre_get_posts offers some solutions that are more performant than writing a … Read more
Documentation Guides Querying relationship fields Overview This tutorial will cover the techniques to query relationship fields in both directions. The example used will be “Doctors” and “Locations”. Screenshots To save time, this tutorial will not cover the setup process for the 2 post types and their custom fields. However, the screenshots bellow show the data we will … Read more
In WordPress, “post” means two things. In the database, a post is a post of any post type, so it will include pages, attachments, and everything else. When most of us talk about posts, we mean the posts in our blog, which belong to the “post” post type.
When WordPress 3.0 introduced hierarchical taxonomies nearly a decade ago, taxonomies became an even more useful tool in the toolkit of WordPress developers. On a high level, we can think of taxonomies as ways of grouping things together. Within the WordPress platform, a taxonomy is a mechanism for grouping things like posts, custom post types, … Read more
Demo Online Generator Post Type Generator Taxonomy Generator Custom Fields vs. Custom Taxonomies, When to (Not) Use? Today, a lot of developers use custom fields to store data for their custom post types. Plugins for custom fields such as Meta Box provide an easy way to create them with tons of options. Developers don’t need … Read more
