I purchased a theme from themeforest recently that has a custom post type. Here is a link to a page that's been created with the custom post type:
http://bluepresley.com/farmerfinder/?dir-item=dance-relax
The custom post type has approximately 20 different custom fields, but you can see from my array dump that the one one field has been saved as serialized data:
(array dump using get_post_custom())
Array
(
[_edit_last] => Array
(
[0] => 1
)
[_ait-dir-item] => Array
(
[0] => a:20:{s:7:"address";s:51:"276 Canal Street, New York, NY 10013, United States";s:11:"gpsLatitude";s:17:"40.71958306715651";s:12:"gpsLongitude";s:17:"-74.0379810333252";s:14:"showStreetview";a:1:{s:6:"enable";s:6:"enable";}s:18:"streetViewLatitude";s:9:"40.719679";s:19:"streetViewLongitude";s:18:"-74.03797400000002";s:17:"streetViewHeading";s:18:"-151.8987176681924";s:15:"streetViewPitch";s:17:"5.196265482127373";s:14:"streetViewZoom";s:1:"0";s:9:"telephone";s:13:"044 802 52578";s:5:"email";s:19:"[email protected]";s:3:"web";s:17:"www.aitthemes.com";s:11:"hoursMonday";s:9:"8am - 8pm";s:12:"hoursTuesday";s:9:"8am - 8pm";s:14:"hoursWednesday";s:9:"8am - 8pm";s:13:"hoursThursday";s:9:"8am - 8pm";s:11:"hoursFriday";s:9:"8am - 8pm";s:13:"hoursSaturday";s:6:"closed";s:11:"hoursSunday";s:6:"closed";s:18:"alternativeContent";s:33:"What goes in alternative content?";}
)
[_thumbnail_id] => Array
(
[0] => 8159
)
[_edit_lock] => Array
(
[0] => 1409208357:1
)
[slide_template] => Array
(
[0] =>
)
)
Please note the key in question is _ait-dir-item.
I noticed in the form itself all form fields were named name="_ait-dir-item[address]" (for example).
If this is the case, how do I programmatically add items? Is this typical Wordpress and there is a way to handle this approach? I assume I'm not going to be able to use add_post_meta( $post_id, 'mymetakey', $my_long ); or other approaches found here and here. ?
