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I am somewhat new to both WordPress and PHP, and I wanted to get advice on the best way to tackle my problem as I have had little luck doing it successfully so far.

There are two jobs I want to handle:

First of all, I want to have a conditional include on my home page that does the following;

Find a custom post type home_content (only ever going to be 1 post, which is ID 76 – if that helps)
Display 3 custom fields from that post… the values for today_on front_widget_a & front_widget_b

(I guess a secondary question would be – can I even pass shortcode through a custom field, because that’s what those widgets are being generated from, is shortcode from a plug-in)

That’s pretty much it.  I’ve tried various combination’s of get_posts and get_post_meta without much success.  Either I get some syntax errors I can’t figure out (and trust me I’ve combed my code many times for missing semi-colons and the like).  That or I get a result that makes no sense.

The second one is a bit more difficult.

Basically trying to turn a part of my WordPress into a bit of a CMS-style feature.  Basically, I have 2 additional custom post types, one called tag_page_layout and one called tag_page_data.

When a Tag in a post is clicked on, I want the Tag page to grab custom field 1 from the tag_page_layout, and then a couple custom fields worth of data from tag_page_data. 

I probably wouldn’t even need the two post types if I took the time to learn the PHP or HTML code for making tabs, but again, I’m using a plug-in for WordPress shortcode (which, if you see above – I’m not even sure is going to work right – of course if its not I’m willing to make multiple of these ‘layout’ posts so each [tab:NAME] shortcode bit is in it’s own post-content area. 

So… the tag page will basically have a big bit of code that runs before the loop…. it knows its on a tag page so it starts loading Custom Field 1 from the tag_page_layout, which is essentially a bit of code that starts up a Tab-separated data presentation area.  Then it’s got to take the tag clicked and match it with the same tag ID from custom post type #2 – the tag_page_data group.  Then it will grab the first 3 or so fields from that page, swap back to the layout post, throw another custom field from there to start another tab, and so on and so forth, until a [tab:END] and it runs the loop.

I could include all my various attempts and bits of code that never worked or half worked, but I’ve been around so many circles trying to construct this.  Like I said, my coding knowledge is limited but I can usually feel my way around, however these finer points of trying to make WordPress a little more CMS-like seem to be harder for me to grasp.  Any help would be appreciated!

First Table
–FN—LN—-Reasons
John | Doe | 6 |
Jane | Doe | 2 |
—————–
That’s the end of the first table.
Second Table
—Reason—-Reason Detail—–
2 | Invalid SSN
4 | Invalid Date Of Birth
————————————–
That’s the end of the second table. (*Note, there is NO value of ’6′ in the second table)

I need a SQL query that returns the following:
——————————————
John | Doe | 4 | Invalid SSN
John | Doe | 2 | Invalid Date of Birth
Jane | Doe | 2 | Invalid Date of Birth
——————————————
John Doe has fallen out of our system for both an invalid SSN and an Invalid DOB, how can I split that information up in a SQL query?

1) These tables were designed to have this type of logic used against them, so there is only one unique combination to give the value ’6′ in the reasons column.
2) Yes, I do know this isn’t the best way to do it… The only reason I can think of was due to how large the first table will get. And no, changing the way we do it now isn’t a possibility.
3) The second table is fairly large, about 20-30 reasons, so creating every possible combination to populate a third table is daunting.

Everyone in my office is stumped… can anyone here help?

Does an application exist that would identify orphaned SIDs on objects and remove them? If not, how would you recommend removing the orphaned SIDs?