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What is the purpose of $merged_filters?
Savvy WordPress user here, or at least trying to be. I have the hang of hooks and filters with the code in WP's plugin.php
The only thing I cannot seem to understand is the $merged_filters global. ...
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Which action for triggering cron “wp”or “init”?
Which one do you recommend using within a plugin and why?
add_action( 'wp', 'trigger_me' );
function trigger_me() {
if ( !wp_next_scheduled( 'my_plugin_cron' ) ) {
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hooks of qTranslate
Is there any ways to find out all hooks of qTranslate? I am thinking to add an action when a user clicks a flag to change the language. I've checked the cord codes of qTranslate, and it seems that ...
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Sending form data via PHPMailer - How to action PHP script from a form
Some easy points on offer...
I wish to action a PHP script from a WordPress page but where is the best place to store the script? The script works perfectly fine using a non-WordPress environment in ...
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How to get post ID with hooks publish_post, new_to_publish, etc
I have two plugins, one uses the function wp_insert_post(), the other has a code like this:
add_action('future_to_publish', 'myFunc', 10, 1);
add_action('new_to_publish', 'myFunc', 10, 1);
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Wordpress Theme Update Action?
I've done quite a bit of searching. I'm looking for hook/action called after a theme update. I know the initialization one - but a basic update? Cannot seem to find.
If one does not exist, how can ...
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WP Login forms action URLs displayed as pretty URLs in browser (ex with Restore Password)
I would like to use the WP native login/register/restore password/.. functionality, but display pretty URLs instead of wp-login.php
I've been looking at the core code and noticed that most login ...
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Use latest jQuery in WordPress (admin interface)
I want to use the latest jQuery (and jQuery UI) versions on my admin interface (editing a specific post type that I created).
I tried this:
// jQuery 1.x
wp_register_script('jquery1x', ...
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Front end form submission/processing, without using a template file
I'm writing a plugin which has a front end form that is generated by a shortcode. I'm struggling with processing the form submission in any way. Many tutorials describe placing form processing code at ...
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Empty Super Cache programmatically (with ACF action)
I regularly use Advanced Custom Fields to create awesome backend interfaces for my clients (as I'm sure a lot of us do…). ACF includes an Options add-on that creates one or multiple global options ...
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How to add a “publish” link to the quick actions
I'm trying to add a "Publish" link by the quick actions:
but I'm not exactly sure of how implement it.
Here's what I've got so far:
add_filter('post_row_actions', function ( $actions )
{
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Create action running on trashed_post hook to modify post_meta value
I have a custom post type that always do math operation to its post_meta and other custom post type post_meta.
For example:
post-type 1 = cpt_product_order
post-type 1 post_meta = ...
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Store source permalink on XMLRPC calls
In a theme I'm developing, I need to link to the source post when the post has been stored using XMLRPC. That implies that every time Wordpress asks for a permalink (using get_permalink()) the theme ...
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Update User Meta after Registration [closed]
After a user registers, I am creating two pages of two different custom post types, and then need to store a custom meta value in their user data to assist with redirects later. I've found that if I ...
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Removing an action, or dequeueing style - Both not working
What I am wanting to achieve is to remove an action called inside of another action.
The action is calling a style, and although I have tried to deregister, and dequeue the style, it is still ...
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Replace a word with a word in the URL string
I'm trying to replace a word on every page for example "Denver" with a word from a URL string, so I'll have like ?city=Atlanta in the URL. So I was thinking of using PHP's GET to just get the city ...
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Hooks are not executing
Based on my understanding of hooks, you create a hook, by doing do_action('hook_name'); then add something to said hook and call the method where you want it to do the hook, so:
public function ...
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Trouble understanding apply_filters()
In apply_filters()
apply_filters( $tag, $value, $var ... );
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the $value and $var. I read the codex and it sounds like the $value can be modified, $var not, ...
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Is there an action for when permalinks are rebuilt?
In my plugin, I have a list of titles and permalinks in the options table. It's updated every time my custom post type is saved.
Since I'm saving permalinks the option data can become bad if the ...
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Using jQuery to delete data stored in wp_options
I wonder if anyone could advise me further on my problem. Part of my plugin stores log files for debugging purposes. I have successfully displayed them in a (div#log) in my admin page using jquery ...
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Which hook should be used to add an action containing a redirect?
I want to build a plugin that grabs certain url params from the query string to build a new query string for the same page. I'm following the excellent the Professional WordPress Plugin Development ...
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Check if post is being published for the first time, or is an already published post being updated
I am building an add-on to an events module that checks for availability, since there wasn't a function for that in that module. Now that I have built the logic, there are three emails I will need to ...
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Run javascript code after wp_login hook?
after using the wp_login hook, is it possible to add a snippet of javascript code to the page seen immediately after the login in wordpress?
I want to use this top implement a notification system ...
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Removing an action from an external plugin class
I am using a plugin that has this line of code to add an action from the Eazyest_Frontend class:
add_action( 'eazyest_gallery_thumbnails', 'ezg_thumbnails',5);
I want to remove that and do ...
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How to load script-related styles automatically?
Scenario: It is common that a JS dependency is bundled with a style file to work properly (just think about your favorite slideshow jQuery plugin). AFAIK, in this situation, the script and style have ...
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Hook before inserting user into database
I'm working on airsoft website using woocommerce. One of my client's needs is to prevent a user to register if his name or mail is in a blacklist (I don't know yet if I'll use a csv file, a json or a ...
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Alternative to the filter comment_reply_link
I'm making a plugin and need to add a link to every comment on the front-end. I've used the filter comment_reply_link but that filter doesn't work when we're on the lowest level of threaded comments ...
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wp_list_tables bulk actions
How to fire on bulk actions inside of an extended WP_List_Table.
I have been adding the following bulk actions to may table's select box but on Apply won't really happens anything
here are how I ...
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How to enqueue scripts on custom post add/edit pages?
I'm trying to enqueue a JS script only when someone is adding or editing a custom post type I created called "recipes". Currently the script works ok when I do this:
if (is_admin()){
...
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Plugin Edit file/table data?
Hello WordPress people,
At the moment I'm building a plugin.
Via a form people can add some data that will be inserted in a database table.
At the same page I'm reading that table the display al the ...
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template_redirect action only firing if logged in
add_action('template_redirect', 'add_header_redirect', 0, 0);
function add_header_redirect(){
if( is_page(array(8, 'testimonials', 'Testimonials')) ){
$default_testimonial = get_permalink( ...
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Is there an action for save_menu and/or update_menu?
I want to "save" my menus into transients. I want to update those when there's been any changes to the menus via the admin custom menus. I've looked for an action but can't see to find anything. ...
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How to remove a class
Is it possible to remove classes from a plugin and add theme into to theme?
I need to modify Woocommerce WP_Checkout class but I want to move it to my theme folder so if woocommerce will be updated ...
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Trying to understand the action: save_post and an incomplete $post object
I begin with a fresh post (i.e., add New). I fetch (via Ajax) an image (read: src) from another site. In the process of saving (action: save_post) I want to PHP copy() the image to my local server and ...
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Dynamically change post_parent in every page load?
What's the correct Wordpress action where I can hook to dynamically change the post_parent of a post? I understand that a post can't have multiple parents so that's the only way I can think of to ...
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Strange / unexpected results with add_action('save_post')
As I'm sure plenty of you know already, 'save_post' will actually fire multiple times for a given save. Rather than copy / paste the same 12+ lines of code every time I need just a single fire, I ...
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Hooks are not being removed in child theme
I have a hook file:
function load_admin_package(){
do_action('load_admin_package');
}
/*
* -----------------------------------
* Define hooks bellow
* -----------------------------------
*/
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Issue plugin commands in admin settings page
What is the right way to issue commands in wp-admin? My plugin imports data from a set of RSS feeds via a cron job. Thats all working good. I've set up a custom settings page to change parameters, and ...
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Link to the same page ( action=“whattowritehere?”=
I am really noob for web and just got jumped in the middle of it... so there are my code which is working perfectly without wordpress..but if i use it with a custom template the buttons actions didnt ...
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Set static page/post from another blog on same network
I have a multisite project and have a small problem with static front page/post. In general i am looking for a way to choose a static page/post out of the whole network on my main blog. Now i'm not ...
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Difference between do_action_ref_array() and do_action()
I am having trouble wrapping my head around these two functions. I understand do_action() but I don't see clearly when do_action_ref_array() would be useful. Couldn't we pass an array to do_action() ...
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admin-ajax.php “ Missing argument 2” warning
I have the following code in functions.php
<script type="text/javascript">
var post_id = "1055"; // hardcoded post id for testing purposes
var type = "some_type";
var data = {action: ...
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Action hook to control access to certain parts of my site
I'm searching for an action hook which I can use to control access to certain parts of my Wordpress site. I want to write some custom PHP which will check certain user attributes and decide if they ...
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Building WP Web App: Creating a Feed for post revisions
I'm building a project management web app using WordPress. I want to create a kind of "news feed" on the home page so that everyone can see what the latest posts added/edited were. I need this to ...
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Proper method to restrict non logged users into certain pages
I was wondering which is the correct method to do this and which action hook should i use.
I have custom login/register pages so if the user try to go to a forbidden page and its not logged in i ...
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add_role() run only once?
I was surprised to discover that add_role() modifies the database and fails if the role already exists. There are two implications here, one first more serious than the other: 1) if you're in ...
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Can an action callback prevent the parent from continuing execution?
I'm working on a plugin that interacts with Gravity Forms, and under certain conditions I want to prevent a form from being deleted. Here's the method in Gravity Forms that handles deleting a form:
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register_activation_hook in oop approach
I tried to develop a plugin in OOP approach.
I tried to load all the function needed inside the constructor class e.g action hooks. The problem is this hook "register_activation_hook". It wont load ...
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Which hook/action for save on publish and update?
This function works exactly as expected when:
Add a new post with a youtube url in the content somewhere
Click 'publish'
Click 'update'
What I'd like to have happen is for it to run correctly ...
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Function to execute when a post is moved to trash .
Hi is there an action which can be performed while a post is moved to trash .... I tried delete_post and deleted_post. It works but twice for each action ( before and after the action as written in ...
