I was not looking forward to attempting the task explained in this post because all the info I found elsewhere was way to complicated. I was able to impliment this in about 15 minutes and got it working straight away! The only place I stumbled up was when I first pasted the code into functions.php and got an error. Once I removed the <?php tags it worked perfect. I was hoping you could answer what is probably a stupid question for a beginner…

Why is a <?php tag always shown in examples even when you don't need to be pasting it into the desired file?

I don't know if that is a stupid question or not but it is something that always confuses me. Well, thanks again for your help on this one it has made things much easier!

I’d love to hear how you did it??

Thanks

Is it possible to replace the outputed post ID with an image which is stored in a different custom field?

If you look at the post page here: http://www.violetrosevintage.com/nang/?p=112

I want to replace the post id under the post with the post-icon for that artist. Similar to the ‘Recent Releases’ on the right, only specific to the artist of each post.

Is this possible? I’ve tried amending your code but having no luck!

Thanks

You have to add another custom field, in this script I use “Series_part”, to hold the order of the post you are editing.

Here is the sorting script:

function sortseries($a, $b){
$aPart = get_post_meta($a->ID, 'Series_part', true);
$bPart = get_post_meta($b->ID, 'Series_part', true);
if($aPart ==$bPart){
return0;
}
return($aPart <$bPart)?-1:1;
}

And then you need to add the following line to the original script, so that the posts are sorted before they are printed.

usort($series_posts, "sortseries");

It has to be inserted right after:

$series_posts = get_posts($args);

Is it possible to list all the values of a certain key?

For example, i’m making a gallery site, and i have a custom field called “artist”, my client would input the name of the artist when writing each new post.

I want to list all the artists, so, all the values that have been typed into the Artist custom field.

I’m sure this is possible but can’t work it out.

Thanks,

James

your comment from November 10th helped me with my mini loop problems after upgrading to WP 2.8.4.

Thanks a lot!