Comments on: Wordpress development techniques #1 - Running custom queries using the ‘wpdb’ class

By: James Gardner

James Gardner — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:00:09 +0000

Hey,

Excellent article, just what I was looking for! Perhaps you could help me with something? I have created my own table and want to create an admin panel which lists it’s contents - can I facilitate something within wpdb to organize my results into pages automatically?

By: Andy Bailey

Andy Bailey — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:57:20 +0000

great post, I have been toying with using the wp database for reads and writes since I started making plugins for wordpress. So far I haven’t needed to use the database but I think my future plans for plugins will definitely use it so thanks for making it so clear on how to use wp-db.php!

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:18:45 +0000

Another great post - thanks! Would it be possible to use this technique in conjunction with your secure and accessible contact form to pull an email address stored in a post’s custom field and therefore have the contents of the contact form sent to an email address depending on the post ID. I think something like this is being used here:

http://geofeat.com/directory/air_water/water_home/water_filter_systems/40616/

Do you think this would work?

Cheers, Joe

By: Mike Cherim

Mike Cherim — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:12:34 +0000

Yes, that’s what I did in this case, Mike. It is embedded directly in a page.

By: Mike Jolley

Mike Jolley — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:23:09 +0000

@Mike - I take it you put that inside actual wordpress pages? I prefer making a template for a page, then the user can choose that as the template when they create it.

@ant and @James - Thanks. Ill get the next one out next week

By: James Oppenheim

James Oppenheim — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:35:25 +0000

Nice article, can’t wait for the next one. Keep up the good work.

By: Mike Cherim

Mike Cherim — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:47:21 +0000

That’s excellent Mike. Thanks. I can see lots of uses for that. For recent post in particular, I like that and may implement it on a site I’m making. Currently I have this…

<?php wp_get_archives('type=postbypost&limit=4'); ?>

…which, with the Run PHP plugin (which is a must have as far as I’m concerned) I can grab listed links to the posts postbypost. Not sure if there’s a description or excerpt parameter to add to it do grab some post content as well.

The number in the string is the number displayed.

By: Anthony Brewitt

Anthony Brewitt — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:34:05 +0000

I will definetly be using this as a resource - thanks Mike!