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Is there a hook that runs after a user logs in?
I am writing a plugin that fetches some extended user info from a remote service and I need it to execute its function each time a user logs in.
Is there a hook that gets fired after login that I can ...
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How to use filter hook 'post_updated_messages' in coherence with action hook 'save_post'
I am trying to send out e-mail, SMS and IM notifications to group members of this WordPress website, whenever a WordPress page in their user group has been published/updated.
I figured using the ...
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Submit custom form from post content and execute in plugin
I have prepared custom form (quiz plugin) with embedding in custom posts via {{QUIZ_ID}} placeholder. My form is displayed in post correctly but bigger problem is what form action should I create (and ...
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An action that runs after each post in the loop on index/archive page?
Is there an Action/a Filter that runs just after each post/post excerpt is displayed on these 2 pages? I use the_content and get_the_excerpt currently, but the_content causes a conflict with some ...
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how to determine how many and what kind of arguments are passed to hooks
I am not able to understand a very logic behind add_action / add_filter
Consider following example:
function SearchFilter($query) {
if ($query->is_search) {
$query->set('post_type', ...
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What would cause the 'wp' action to fire twice per page (but only once per post) in Firefox only?
I'm using add_action( 'wp', 'do_something_once_per_page' ); and, well, it's not doing it just once but twice. What's interesting is that within do_something_once_per_page( $wp ){ } I'm globalizing ...
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Better way to enforce category hierarchy in post_categories_metabox?
The objective is to ensure that when editing a post, the metabox that lists a hierarchical taxonomy doesn't reorder itself upon Update to put checked items on top.
Right now, edit-form-advanced.php ...
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How to correctly get post type in a the_title filter
I want to prepend text to the post titles of a specific custom post type, but the filter below didn't work. Instead of changing only that CPT's post titles, it changed all titles on the given CPT's ...
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What are the best practices for organizing actions and filters in themes? [closed]
I've seen some different ways people have organized setting up filters and hooks in themes and plugins. some do it like so:
before the function
add_filter('wp_mail_from', 'custom_mail_from');
...
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WP_cron won't trigger my action
I'm in a dead end with a schedualed task in a wordpress plugin for a multisite. Somehow the action I added don't get triggered. The task is getting schedualed and returns a timestamp when I run ...
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How to only hook on Single.php after content?
I am currently hooking on the_content() but that goes through the Wordpress loop too. How can I only hook on the Single.php page?
Also, is there a way to only look on the first X posts in the ...
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How to change “Draft” string for status of custom post type to “Unavailable”?
ANSWER MOD: just an important mod to the chosen answer:
// check if you actually have drafts; also avoids extra '|' separator
if (isset($views['draft'])) {
// 'Drafts' should be added (and come ...
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OOP Plugin: Where should I place the action hooks in the class?
Where in my admin class should I place the action hooks for adding css, scripts and the add menu page?
In the __construct? Or should they be placed in a method?
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Too many actions/filters!
New to wordpress here. The concept of actions/filters in and of itself is not too difficult to grasp. What I am overwhelmed by is the HUGE amount of actions and filters available. When I am looking at ...
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How can I find out what functions are assigned to actions?
Is there any way to know what functions are added to actions on a certain page in WordPress?
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How can I remove the WP menu from the admin bar?
I never use the WP menu (the logo and its child items) except when I click it accidentally. And it is wasting my time when I navigate per keyboard. Plus, the support page is not our site.
How can I ...
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How can I remove “Proudly powered by WordPress” from twentyeleven without modifying footer.php?
How can I remove "Proudly powered by WordPress" from twentyeleven without modifying footer.php, and without creating a child theme?
I'm looking for a php command, such as add_action, remove_action, ...
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WordPress custom form action url
Is there any way to replace standard WordPress comments form action, which usually looks like this:
<form action="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" ...
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Looking for a hook for post.php
First time posting here...
I am trying to figure out if there is a hook or action that I can use when a user goes to wp-admin/post.php... Basically when the user goes to post.php I want to check if ...
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Wordpress Plugin Receive a Link
I'm writing a Wordpress plugin. The plugin should allow every user to rate posts (1 to 5 stars).
What actually works is to read the rating from storage and show the stars. So there are five <a> ...
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Valid filenames for add_action's first parameter
Some examples in WordPress' docs pass a filename to add_action rather than an action name. For example,
add_action( 'load-post.php', 'callback' );
add_action( 'load-post-new.php', 'callback' );
...
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Perform an action when post is updated/published
I'd like to run a custom query using some meta data whenever a post is updated or published.
Is there something I can put in functions.php to fire when those events occur?
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after_setup_theme always runs
I am setting up a child theme for some of my faculty members, and as a part of the theme, I would like a handful of plugins to be activated at the time that the theme is activated. So, naturally, I ...
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publish_post action doesn't work
i'm developing a small plugin which will send email to users when a new magazine is published.
i made a post type name "magazine" on the theme functions.php.
and i wrote a plugin for email ...
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Appending meta value onto post content in WordPress during save_post
The problem seems pretty straight forward: Once the save_post action is fired, I would like to append the value of a meta key onto the end of the post_content if it's not already found within the post ...
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Which action does wp_update_user triggers?
I am working modifying an ecommerce plugin, and it makes uses of wp_update_user() function, and everytime the function runs another table (created by the plugin), gets updated too. The problem is that ...
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Action while post is being published
I modified the wordpress admin with a plugin I wrote, and my last problem is that there's no action anymore while the post is being updated or published in the admin. I looked around for a function or ...
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Earliest hook to reliably get $post/$posts
What's the earliest possible action I can hook into where I'll be able to access the global $post/$posts variables on both the front and back ends? I've tried looking through the Codex reference, Adam ...
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Create WordPress taxonomies based on theme settings
Is it possible to create taxonomies based on theme settings? That is, are theme settings actions run before taxonomies / post types are initialized?
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Getting the action's tag name within the action
There's a function attached to a set of actions, like this:
add_action('some_tag', 'the_function');
function the_function($maybe_some_vars){
// ...
}
Is it possible to find out the action name ...
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3answers
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Is there a recover_post hook to go with trash_post hook?
I'm using the trash_post hook to set a flag in a custom table to indicate that this item is "deleted", but when the user chooses to restore that post, what hook can I use for that? I couldn't find ...
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How do i know which action / filters are called when i call get_option()
I need to know which action / filters are called when i do a get_option() call, how can i do that?
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Get the post_id of a new post
There are several ways to get the id of a post after it has been saved (auto, etc.), but is there a way to get the post id immediately after you create a new post?
I am trying to create a directory ...
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Difference between do_action('admin_enqueue_scripts', $hook_suffix) and do_action(“admin_print_styles-$hook_suffix”) syntax
Source ref:
do_action('admin_enqueue_scripts', $hook_suffix);
do_action("admin_print_styles-$hook_suffix");
Laying aside the obvious difference in base action ( admin_enqueue_scripts vs ...
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action lifecycle
I'm looking for a documentation page where wordpress action lifecycle is explained. Does it exist?
I can't understand if init is called before admin_head or viceversa (even if the name is ...
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How can I see all the actions attached to an “add_action” hook?
I'm working with the admin bar and trying to debug some of the menus and their priorities.
I know several callbacks get bound to actions, such as this one:
add_action( 'admin_bar_menu', ...
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Selectively applying action based on role
I've added an action to my functions.php file that forces a plugin (Content Scheduler) to act on posts, even when it wasn't explicitly enabled by the person writing the post.
I've got that working, ...
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How do I know if author field was changed on post save?
I'm writing a plugin that sends notifications on various post events.
One of the notifications should be sent when a post is assigned to a different author.
How can I know that the post author was ...
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Unregister post type from child theme
I'm trying to unregister a post type from a child theme but I haven't been able to do so, the code in the funcions.php file on the parent theme is something like this:
add_action( 'init', ...
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Adding tables to dashboard pages programmatically?
I think that is not possible with some actions or filters, I know that I can do it just with html and using right css styles, and of course php to achieve what I need, or to write some minde actions. ...
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How to modify the action attribute of the wp-login.php?action=register form?
I'm trying to create a reference registration system in Wordpress. The idea is that the user will click a link which will contain wp-login.php?action=register&ref=12345
I'm hooking into the ...
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What's the best action to use when you want to do something only once per theme setup?
I'm writing a theme which has it's own set of database tables.
I'm wondering what is the best action for me to use when I want my install function to be invoked only once when the theme is activated ...
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How to override existing plugin action with new action
I'm using a plugin. It has an action like this.
add_action('publish_post', 'old_action');
function old_action($pid) {
"code goes here"
}
}
I'm writing a module for this plugin. So i need to ...
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Getting admin notices working for plugin errors
I'm beginning with creating plugins and I don't quite understand the process of displaying error messages. e.g. I use the php readfile function to download a file from a hidden location. If something ...
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action wp_set_comment_status never gets fired when i change the comment status [closed]
I want to run some code on comment status change so using the action wp_set_comment_status but it seem to never fired when comment status gets changed. I am using wordpress 3.3.1.
Here is a simple ...
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Which to use to execute code during the saving of a plugin settings page?
I'm writing a plugin with a settings/option page and I want some php code to be executed whenever someone saves the settings on that page and that page alone. Which actions do I need to hook into to ...
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Hook to get image filename when it is uploaded
I want to get the full local filename of an uploaded image so that I can copy it to a new directory and process it with my own image processing scripts. Which hooks/actions should I look into to ...
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When to load auto-login code?
I'm using this (simplified) code to automatically login users via a plugin for a single sign-on system:
$user_info = get_userdatabylogin( $username );
$user_id = $user_info->ID;
...
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save_post action doesn't passing post id to my function as argument
I'm adding a box to add / update post screen.
add_action( 'save_post', 'psd_upload_kaydet' );
add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'psd_upload' );
function psd_upload()
{
add_meta_box("psd-upload", "Bir ...
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Get post id in wordpress action?
I have this code
add_action( 'delete_post', 'my_delete_function' );
function my_delete_function() {
global $wpdb;
$wpdb->query("
DELETE FROM wp_votes WHERE post=".$thePostID."
;);
}
...
