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How to publish a post with empty title and empty content?
Why I'm doing this you might ask? I'm developing a website for a business with a portfolio where the gallery items are posts. These posts are populated through custom fields and category selections, ...
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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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add action for displaying posts using a shortcode
I'm developing a simple plugin for letting a user insert a post from the frontend.
I have a shortcode [add-post] which a user can put on any page, say, for eg. My Wall Page
Now on My Wall Page a ...
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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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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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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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Is there a way to figure out which action/filter invoked a function?
I'd like a lightweight way to figure out what is invoking a certain action in an effort to provide logic for certain scenarios where I can't help to avoid a function invocation (for example, a new ...
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Actions to use when flushing cache (when posts are added / deleted / modified)
I'm looking for a list of action tags that are relevant when you:
create a post, with any method, so basically using wp_insert_post
modify a post, like changing status, title, content, terms, meta, ...
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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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Is it possible to remove this action? (as it's added just before it's called)
In wp-signup.php there are these lines:
add_action( 'wp_head', 'wpmu_signup_stylesheet' );
get_header();
I need to remove wpmu_signup_stylesheet from the wp_head action, but I seem to be ...
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What is the very earliest action hook you can call?
After the solution to this question was to get a function to launch BEFORE the init action is fired by taking the sequence out of its function, it got me thinking, is there any earlier in the WP load ...
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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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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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Action for opening edit page in admin?
I have a function that kills the media buttons on certain custom post types. I want it to load whenever any post/ page edit page opens. What's the best action to hook this up to?
Thanks in advance.
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Which hook to use when adding ajax to viewer-facing side?
I have a shortcode that contains a form. I want to use jQuery/Ajax for POSTing. For this, I want to add javascript to the page where shortcode is added? Which hook should I use?
wp_enqueue_scripts
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Why does save_post action fire when creating a new post?
I'm surprised by the fact that my function that I've tacked onto the save_post action fires when I click the "New Post" link in the Admin Dashboard. Note - this is before I've pressed Save or Update, ...
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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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What hook should be used to programmatically create a post only when master post is updated?
Pippin and Jean-Baptiste Jung have very good tutorials on how to programmatically create content when a new post is published using these four actions hooks...
publish{post_type}
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Fix warning: Missing argument
i want to submit a theme to the wordpress.org. when i put the define('WP_DEBUG', true); in my wp-config.php. my theme showed some errors.but i don't know how to correct theme.
Q1:Warning: Missing ...
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Hook/action after WP_Query gets posts to query custom tables for post-related meta
I see that there are hooks for manipulating WP_Query before it gets its posts (parse_query, pre_get_posts), but I can't seem to find any hooks for after the WP_Query object is populated. I have a ...
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How to know what functions are hooked to an action/filter?
Is there a way to know what functions are hooked to a particular hook? For example if I'd like to know what functions are hooked to the wp_head hook.
Thanks in advance.
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Custom post type functions.php if statement on action
I am using developing a child theme for Woothemes' Canvas.
I am trying to use functions.php in the child theme to only use actions on my custom post type.
This code doesn't seem to be working:
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Difference between after_setup_theme and init action hooks?
What is the difference between the after_setup_theme and init action hooks? It seems they are both called right before any page in WordPress is loaded (even admin pages).
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Action hook on Edit custom post type?
Is there an explicit action hook that will fire when (or just before) the admin Edit page renders for a custom post type? Something similar to {$new_status}_{$post->post_type}?
I'm trying to find the ...
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What action is called when drafts are saved?
I would like to add a metadata field to the current post based on a checkbox in a custom meta box to be able to toggle my custom plugin on a post by post basis.
For this I coded the following things
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How to test wp_cron?
This is kind of a stupid question...
I scheduled a action to run every hour:
if(!wp_next_scheduled('my_hourly_events'))
wp_schedule_event(time(), 'hourly', 'my_hourly_events');
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Return $post_id when DOING_AUTOSAVE?
I see the following pattern over and over, on this site and on other places:
add_action( 'save_post', 'wpse14169_save_post' );
function wpse14169_save_post( $post_id )
{
if ( defined( ...
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What action should I hook into when adding roles and capabilities?
I'm going to be using add_role() and $role->add_cap() to set up a new custom role and attach a new capability to existing roles.
I'm wondering where the best place to do this is? Obviously I can do ...
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Create cron job without a plugin?
Basically I wrote a function that lets me change the post status to draft depending of a field in the postmeta table:
/**
* Remove ads if they have been sold for over 5 days
*/
function ...
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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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Does the switch_theme action run when you're upgrading a theme?
Did anyone test if this action is being executed on theme upgrade?
Are there any other actions I could use to attach a theme uninstall function?
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how to limit search to post titles?
Is there a way to limit search to post titles? I know I can modify query.php core file but there must be a way to do it with hooks right?
Thanks in advance!
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How to find hooks as per Just-In-Time approach?
How can I follow Just-In-Time approach in hooking up my function to an action? I mean everybody just attach the functions to a very early stage like init which leaves the scope of optimisation. I saw ...
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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 ...
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What is the 'admin_action_' . $_REQUEST['action'] hook used for?
There's an action hook triggered in admin.php called 'admin_action_'.$_REQUEST['action']. Unfortunately, it's a bit useless for plugins as it's triggered at the very end of admin.php, after ...
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Good tools for locating hooks in a wordpress page/admin interface/blog post?
I've recently started using the Hikari Hooks plugin for Wordpress as it seems to allow you to get a good idea of what do_actions are being called on the page, so that you can easily find out where ...
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How to get all of the activate_plugin action parameters?
I am trying to hook into activate_plugin.
I know that activate_plugin has 1 required param and 2 optional ones. I am trying to acquire all 3.
Here's my setup:
// create plugin settings menu
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From what hook on is it possible to conditionally add actions?
I tried to have a siderbar registered at the "init" hook based on a variable from the theme options array indicating whether the sidebar should be used in the design.
Now it appears that that the ...
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Display different number of posts from one category on the different pages
according with Pagination with custom loop. I use the custom loop for display flash game. For make a pagination on the page with posts from one category (mydomain/category/categoryName) I used:
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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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How to get multiple Action Hooks in an Array
Hi I am writing a small plug-in which I get some content from outside of WordPress and I want a small script to trigger whenever a new post, page or comment is added. Also if any Widgets, themes and ...
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Which are the hooks run before/after when a category's deletion?
What are the actions that a plugin can hook on to for processing when the user deletes a category?
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Are there action hooks for comments?
This is for a personal-use plugin I'm trying to make. I want to submit a comment from site A to my blog (sort of like sending trackbacks/pingbacks but a full comment).
For instance, on site A I have ...
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How to track post number on the_loop
I have a need to customize some posts from the loop.
Here's the deal: My site is set to 10 posts per page.
On post #2,#5, #7 (on every page), I want to display specific background.
What's the best ...
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add_action('wp_ajax_[action name]', myfunction) problem
I'm trying to integrate ajax in wordpress using the wp codex guidelines.
In the PHP I added:
wp_enqueue_script ( 'my_ajax', ADMIN_URL . 'js/ajax.js','jquery','1.0.0' );
wp_localize_script( 'my_ajax', ...
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How to run scripts when a new blog is created in Buddypress?
I'd like to insert some mysql data into every new blog that's created on my buddypress system. How can I hook up to the newly created blog data? ID, for example, would allow me to insert it right from ...
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Scheduled event won't fire
I'm trying to set up individual, one-time schedule events in a plugin. No matter what I do, I can't seem to get the events to fire. I'm using the Cron View plugin to see what's in queue, and the ...
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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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get_template_part vs action hooks in themes
It seems to me both of these afford the opportunity for the end user to modify a theme without actually editing the themes files (via child themes).
My question is, is one method preferred over the ...
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Edit post image attributes on fly?
Greetings, We can edit image attributes with this get_image_tag filter when we are adding images or with regex and filter the_content,but is there any similar filter or action that can we use to edit ...
