Hello,
this is a very specific issue and likely more wordpress related than not but here goes.
for our site we are creating an alphabetical index.
To achieve this we enter a (mostly) lastname in the custom field keyword, of which the first letter is stored in an additional field called alphabetical_letter.
We have created a script that does this for any article we update manually. However since we have a large database we have no desire to do this for each single post… is there a way to achieve this for the whole database and make this script below run once for all posts ?
function my_acf_update_letter( $value, $post_id, $field ) {
$taxonomy = 'alphabetical_letter';
$first_letter = strtoupper(substr($value, 0, 1));
wp_set_post_terms( $post_id, $first_letter, $taxonomy );
// return
return $value;
}
add_filter('acf/update_value/name=keyword', 'my_acf_update_letter', 10, 3);
I have been informed that I should “hijack” the page template mechanism that displays multiple posts, but since the theme is rather complex I’d like some help to know where exactly I should be looking.
we have been trying and experimenting but havent had a lot of succes thusfar so any help is greatly appreciated.
Hi,
Maybe these topics would be useful, there might be some more online
– https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7917725/update-all-wordpress-posts
– https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/157253/i-need-to-bulk-update-all-wordpress-posts-on-a-scheduled-time
– https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/152541/wordpress-update-all-existing-posts-at-once
