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Hi Long,

I've just got the message on Facebook of a new tutorial on Youtube: https://metabox.io/move-custom-fields-data-to-custom-tables/#more-26926

What a coincidence 🙂 Thanks for this nice tutorial.

I've used the 'Save data in a custom table' and 'Create table automatically' features of the Builder to create the custom table. After created I changed the field types in the table via PHPmyAdmin, because all fields were Text type. Is that okay to do or might that cause problems if I change the field types this way in the database?

Kind regards, Henri

Hi Long,

I've created the custom posts types, like described in the MB relationship article: https://docs.metabox.io/extensions/mb-relationships/#multiple-relationships

I've added the 3 custom post types: artist, event, band and I've connected them with MB relationships. I've added a function in the child function.php theme as follows:

function relatedposts(){
    $query = new WP_Query( [
    'relationship' => [
        'relation' => 'OR',
        [
            'id'   => 'events_to_bands',
            'from' => get_the_ID(),
        ],
        [
            'id'   => 'events_to_artists',
            'from' => get_the_ID(),
        ],
    ],
    'nopaging'     => true,
] );
while ( $query->have_posts() ) {
    $query->the_post();
    echo get_the_title() . '<br>';
}
wp_reset_postdata();
}

Now I'm trying to call this in my MB View 'Artist' like so:
{% mb.relatedposts() %}

Nothing shows. I do have 1 artist connected with one event and the event is connected to 1 band. So when I'm displaying an artist, I want to show the event he is connected to and the bands that are connected to that event. But somehow the above code doesn't work. Can you help me?

Kind regards, henri

Hi Long,

Thanks, I just send them the message. I'll let you know if that will solve it.

Kind regards, henri

Hi Long,

did you find anything why the custom post fields are not showing even on the fresh wordpress staging installation?

Kind regards, Henri

Hi Long,

I didn't see that before. I tried to see what's wrong, but I couldn't, so I decided to create a fresh staging site. The rest API error is gone now. I've installed everything fresh again. But the custom fields still don't show in the Insert Field option. See my new recording: https://share.getcloudapp.com/yAu6pd0R

I do get it to work to just type in the custom field name, like this {{ post.business }}. But I would rather have it shown to just pick the values.

I've recreated the credentials, so you can login to the new staging site with the same credentials.

Kind regards, Henri

Hi Long,

Thanks for the quick reply. I've disabled my current Kadence theme and disabled the plugin of WpVivid staging. The only plugins active are now of Metabox. And I'm running the latest WordPress install 5.7.

I did the test again, and although now it works better with the Editor option disabled. However, when I enable it, it still not works as expected. It still doesn't show some fields. See the recording: https://share.getcloudapp.com/geu46D6b

I'll check my other MB view issue and will get back to you on that too.

Kind regards, Henri

Hi Long Nguyen,

Thanks for checking the issue and your suggestions. I'll take a look if I can solve it that way. I'll also try on a clean installation first.

Kind regards,

Henri