Retrieve Users Based on Meta Value
Just like the post meta system, WordPress has a powerful user meta system that allows developers to store additional “meta” information about the registered users in the database. This meta information...
View ArticleSometimes direct $wpdb queries are better
WordPress has some really awesome functions and classes for retrieving data from the database: WP_Query, WP_User_Query, get_comments(), get_the_terms(), and many, many more. Most of the time these are...
View ArticleCustom Database API – Reasons for Custom Tables and an API
The WordPress database class and the other various APIs available make it pretty easy to interact with the WordPress database but often times you need to go a step further and create a custom API...
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Custom Database API – Creating the Tables
Once you have laid out the structure for your database table, it is time to create the actual tables. This is where it gets fun. When the tables are created, you can really begin building your API for...
View ArticleCustom Database API – The Basic API Class
In the previous sections of this series, we have looked at reasons you should build a custom database API, we have discussed how to structure your data, and we have looked at how to create the database...
View ArticleCustom Database API – A Sample Orders Class
In the previous part of this series we wrote the base class that we can then extend for each table in our database. For this part, we're going to look at what an orders table might look at and build...
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