Adding multiple meta values to custom post type

  • Quin

    (@quin452)


    9 years, 4 months ago

    Hi

    I’m creating a profile plugin. Using custom post type, I’ve been able to create a new profile. I’ve also been able to add extra data with meta boxes.

    However, I want to add education and experience metadata. So when creating/editing a profile, I can add multiple values for these entries, including title, description, start date and end date.

    Is there a way to add something like this to the post type, or do I have to create a new experience post type and just assign each experience to a profile?

    I’m using Title and Editor for the Name and Summary, but I also want to have Education and Experience (as described), and Skills (as a text field array) and Contact Details (separate text fields or $skill=>$value?).

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    You can add as many meta data items as you want to any given post. You can also store complex PHP arrays as a single meta data item. Making queries that involve array data is limited because the data is stored as a serialized array. About the only way to query this kind of data in a WHERE clause is by using LIKE with wildcards. Otherwise, it’s an efficient way to store data.

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