Comments on: WordPress Custom Fields: Book Reviews Pt. 2

By: Jay Robinson

Jay Robinson — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:11:31 +0000

@Justin, @Jay

Years later, but I’ve found the answer: in the latest WordPress (2.7.x as of this writing) custom keys will be removed from the drop down if they’re no longer used on any post.

By: James Dean

James Dean — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:10:44 +0000

This is some really good information, so thanks. I’ve been really trying to get this all setup, but I must admit to still being very lost. I’m not a hardcore scripter, so all the meta tags and so forth, and references as to where to paste the correct scripts are a little over my head. I recently purchased “WordPress for Dummies” to help with eventually doing my own design, but when I flipped to the page that talked about Custom Fields, it simply directed me to the WordPress Codex. Some help – that’s the place that confused me the most! I’ll be bookmarking your blog in an attempt to read through it a few times to try and better understand what you’ve gone through in this tutorial. You seem to have a good grasp on the concept. Thanks again for your work!

By: Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:19:58 +0000

Philip
Custom fields are just information. What you do with that information is entirely up to you.

What I mean by this is that how information is given back is as only as strong as the script itself. For example, I’ve only shown you how to retrieve information. You’d have to write a custom PHP function to sort things by a date set with custom fields.

Hope that helps.

Jay
I’ve run into that same problem where new keys aren’t being added to the drop-down menu.

I think the only thing to do would be to manually remove these keys from your database.

By: Jay Robinson

Jay Robinson — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:33:08 +0000

Hi, Justin. I’m learning WordPress for the first time and much of your content is very helpful. But I have a question about Custom Fields: How can I delete old Keys? I have many keys left over from before I figured out the best way naming strategy. Now old ones flood the drop-down and I can’t seem to save new ones.

Thanks for the help!

By: Philip

Philip — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:29:01 +0000

Just to say, thanks very much for these tutorials. I just used your “thumbnails for posts” code which works brilliantly. And I’ve been fretting about how to enhance all my book & CD review posts for a while. I’ll definitely be looking closely at these articles.

Question: I’m guessing that custom fields aren’t clever enough to treat a date as a date? So I wouldn’t be able to list out my reviews sorted on the meta field “Book publication date”? Not a big deal. Producing lists sorted by “Book author” or “Rating” is the priority.

I’m going to need to figure out how to adapt your suggestions to the situation where I have several categories in which I post reviews. CDs, History books, novels, etc.

I’ll stop rambling. Keep up the good work

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:16:21 +0000

Justin,
I’ve tested your code, adjusting it to my needs, works great! Thanks so much.

I’m wondering how I can make the Title: a clickable link.

Actually I want to make ‘Title:’ a text link, i.e. in your example, I would make I, Robot a clickable link.

I’m tinkering around with it now but so far haven’t figured out how to do it.

Thanks again,
Christine.

PS> Where’s your DONATION LINK?

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:39:01 +0000

is there a way to get image ratings using custom fields?

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By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:31:36 +0000

Donalyza, I’m excited about where this tutorial is going too. There’s so many things I want to do from this point.

I did leave a longer reply to your comment. At least I thought I did. I’m not sure what happened to it. I probably typed it in a notepad file and forgot to put it here.

TWG, continue reading as I offer more examples of how to use custom fields. You can use the same basic techniques to do pretty much anything you want. You just have to pull the information out.

By: The Web Guy

The Web Guy — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:46:01 +0000

What a fantastic tutorial!

I’m going to implement something based on these tutorials on my future releases for WP.

Great work, can’t wait to delve deeper within your site!