Hey guys!
So, ran into a recent issue and just wanted to share it with you. I did find a solution, but it meant bypassing rwmb_meta and going back to get_post_meta.
Essentially, I was building a shortcode for recent posts, to display 5 upcoming events and wanted to show the event date (not the post date), and ran into a problem loading custom meta.
rwmb_meta just didn't work:
function radix_events_shortcode() {
ob_start();
$currentdatetime = current_time( 'timestamp' );
$args = array(
'numberposts' => '5',
'post_type' => 'events',
'order' => 'ASC',
'orderby' => 'meta_value',
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'key' => 'radix_eventstart',
'value' => $currentdatetime,
'compare' => '>',
)
)
);
$recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( $args );
foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ) {
echo '<li><a href="' . get_permalink($recent["ID"]) . '">' . $recent["post_title"].'</a> </li>' . date( 'jS F Y', rwmb_meta($recent["ID"], "radix_eventstart" ,true) );
}
return ob_get_clean();
}
add_shortcode( 'show_latest_events', 'radix_events_shortcode' );
I had to change the date field to:
date( 'jS F Y', get_post_meta($recent["ID"], "radix_eventstart" ,true) )
That seemed to fix the problem, but I would've expected rwmb_meta to work in this situation. My impression was that get_post_meta and rwmb_meta were indistinguishable, but that you guys recommend using rwmb_meta in most circumstances?
Might be worth looking into! 🙂
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