The Ordinary Coder

Have you ever wanted to show your meta data (custom fields) directly in the page / post listing?

Here is a very simple tutorial with how you easliy add a custom column in your page listing with your own meta data - With a sorting function.

The code

Its always hard to get thoes damn custom fields to work. They arent pritty and honsestly a bitch to work with, from styling and that your function.php get really messy.. 

And what if you just want to show that meta_box on that page or post. Or a page with that template? Then you are really screwed to be honest.

But i found a GREAT PLUGIN for just this, it is amazing! Saves you a lot of time coding and for most. It looks nice and very easy to customize and tailor for your needs.

This plugin really makes Wordpress to a greate CMS. 

I would recommend this plugin for every wordpress coder. Why waste time reinvent the wheel all the time?

And i found that my clients found its really easy to use when you type in a good description on what the field dose.

And what is the absoluty best part with this plugin? Its so easy to print out!

/* `Inside the loop ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ the_field( 'your-field-name' ); /* `Outside the loop ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ the_field( 'your-field-name', $post_id ); /* `Return the field ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ get_the_field( 'your-field-name', $post_id );

Its a great documentation on there website http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/

Out of the box GREAT plugin.

So you wan to use a custom wordpress loop and "the loop" together with no problem?

This is one way to do it, and what i find very easy to use.

For the custom wordpress loop you will have to specify the parameters you want to use. 

Eg. $query->query( 'showpost=10&post_type=page&p=32' )

Find the wordpress query parameters here

/* `Custom wordpress loop -----------------------------------------*/ <?php $query = new WP_Query(); $query->query( 'showposts=10' ); while ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post(); ?> <?php echo the_title(); ?>

One thing i always had truble with is that moving my wordpress installation excalty as it is from my testning server to my customers hosting. 

Its all about the databases!

With a few easy SQL querys it was easy as pie!

Export the database from your current server (via phpmyadmin etc).

Import to your new server (via phpmyadmin etc).

Go and make a SQL Query directly in the database. (HOWTO for PHPMyAdmin)

Then copy paste the lines below and modify the old domain and the new domain.

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'http://www.old-domain.com', 'http://www.new-domain.com') WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';

UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, 'http://www.old-domain.com','http://www.new-domain.com');

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, 'http://www.old-domain.com', 'http://www.new-domain.com');

Now you will never get the problem with links that are in post going to the old domain, pictures that are uploaded and inserted in a post will have the right source!

Hope you find this helpful, i know i did when i started to use it!