I want to update the wp_postmeta table in the database based on 2 keys, is there a way to do that using any of the wordpress default functions. This is my DB query which is working fine:

$sql = "UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = meta_value + 1 WHERE post_id = 167788 AND meta_key = \"tie_views\"";

I want to update the wp_postmeta table in the database based on 2 keys, is there a way to do that using any of the wordpress default functions. This is my DB query which is working fine:

$sql = "UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = meta_value + 1 WHERE post_id = 167788 AND meta_key = \"tie_views\"";

• functions
• database
• post-meta

1 Answer 1

Yes, there is.

These are some WP functions to get, add and update post meta values:

get_post_meta()

add_post_meta()

update_post_meta()

Your code could be:

$meta_value = (int) get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'meta_key', true );
update_post_meta( $post->ID, 'meta_key', $meta_value + 1 );