I am building a registration form that has the normal user info (that I do not need to call on this table) plus a bunch of sections below that I do want to call like:
What is your T-Shirt Size? Short Paragraph shirt_size
What local market are you based out of? Short Paragraph local_market
Are you willing to travel? Radio Button willing_to_travel
I want to build a table where my project managers can search the list of employees based on the meta key criteria.
How do I find the meta key in the WP data tables? (shirt_size, local_market, etc)
Sorry to disappoint you, but for something like this, a custom SQL Query is needed to pull the metadata as you described, our support is not able to cover writing or debugging custom Queries,
but we will do our best to advise.
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As the custom posts/fields and metadata are a part of the WordPress database;
Please note: Using this plugin feature requires at least a basic knowledge of SQL. It is assumed that you can create the table in some MySQL data manager (e.g., PHPMyAdmin, MySQL Workbench), and prepare a SQL query that will return the data you need.
- Please note: this tool is not an ultimate query generator. It simply constructs a suggestion of a query. We are constantly working to improve it, but SQL is such a complicated and flexible language that full automation for constructing queries is next to impossible.
Consequently, the more complicated the query, the higher is the probability that it will not return exactly what you need. So, you will often need to play around with the resulting query.
Please be advised that writing custom SQL Queries or debugging Queries does not fall under what our support covers.
I am building a registration form that has the normal user info (that I do not need to call on this table) plus a bunch of sections below that I do want to call like:
I want to build a table where my project managers can search the list of employees based on the meta key criteria.
How do I find the meta key in the WP data tables? (shirt_size, local_market, etc)
Thanks!
Hi, Jordan.
Sorry to disappoint you, but for something like this, a custom SQL Query is needed to pull the metadata as you described, our support is not able to cover writing or debugging custom Queries,
but we will do our best to advise.
-
As the custom posts/fields and metadata are a part of the WordPress database;
pulling this data can only be done through MySQL query-based tables.
Please note: Using this plugin feature requires at least a basic knowledge of SQL. It is assumed that you can create the table in some MySQL data manager (e.g., PHPMyAdmin, MySQL Workbench), and prepare a SQL query that will return the data you need.
A good way to achieve this can be experimenting using our WPDB SQL Query Constructor tool.
- Please note: this tool is not an ultimate query generator. It simply constructs a suggestion of a query. We are constantly working to improve it, but SQL is such a complicated and flexible language that full automation for constructing queries is next to impossible.
Consequently, the more complicated the query, the higher is the probability that it will not return exactly what you need. So, you will often need to play around with the resulting query.
Please be advised that writing custom SQL Queries or debugging Queries does not fall under what our support covers.
You can check out this official page of WP codex, for help with writing custom Queries.
Kind Regards,
Miloš Jovanović
[email protected]
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