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1answer
15 views

How to access function from outside of a class within this class in WP plugin?

I am developing a WP plugin called e.g. DD_Awesome_Plugin and this is my code so far (simplified version without additional code logic within class functions): class DD_Awesome_PLugin { public ...
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1answer
193 views

How to create an API for my plugin?

I have been developing plugins for WordPress. Most plugins I have developed with two three classes and not so huge like Buddypress, WooCommerce or etc. I am planning to make two open source plugins ...
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1answer
160 views

Where is the best place to use add_filter

Should I use the function add_filter In my plugin's init action hook or just the in the main plugin script? Since sometimes I found people is using filter all over the place and if I put in the init ...
2
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5answers
236 views

How do I make a theme “plugin-ready”?

How do I revise a theme so that I can publish my event hooks and anyone can build a plugin to add new functionality easily to my theme?
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2answers
227 views

My plugin class doesn't work! [closed]

Long story short; I'm writing a plugin in OOP. The constructor is run, but the callback of my add_action does not run. I just can't find out why. I have added echo's on different spots to see what ...
1
vote
1answer
76 views

How to call bind function in wordpress actions or hooks

I have made a class file in my plugin folder. Then I wrote, class Sample{ function footer_content(){ echo "show any data"; } } Then I added the function footer_content to wordpress ...
2
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1answer
133 views

Do I need to call do_action in my plugin?

Do I need to call do_action function every time I add_action something?
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1answer
82 views

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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3answers
798 views

A Post is saved twice or more during add_action(save_post)

I have added a custom meta box for advanced information for a specific post category, to my create new post page. Now I recognize, that if I save the post, it writes 2 entries in the db with 2 ...
4
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1answer
72 views

How Do I Load My Action Earlier Enough?

With add_action, I want to intercept as early as I can in my plugin and send a 304 Not Modified header per some rules. Does anyone know what the order is of events? When I view this page, it seems to ...
1
vote
1answer
235 views

Add something to beginning of content with add_action('the_content')?

I'm using add_action('the_content', 'myFunction', 10) to append data to the end of the content. How can I place content at the beginning of the content?
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2answers
619 views

How to append new form elements in “Add New” form of Users in Wordpress admin panel?

I'm developing a WordPress plugin and I want to append some extra form fields in add new form of Users section inside admin panel without editing core files. Can somebody help me in achieving this.
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1answer
95 views

Bug: Post needs to be updated twice when adding action for save_post hook

My function does exactly what I want it to do: I'm trying to add/update meta fields in another post type when an "events" post is saved. Except the post needs to be updated twice for the information ...
4
votes
1answer
506 views

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 ...
0
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1answer
400 views

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 ...
1
vote
1answer
551 views

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; ...
0
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1answer
383 views

admin_notices not displaying in plugin

I know I'm probably doing something dumb here but I just can't get this to run. I'm trying to set up a little API for my plugin and to create a class to display admin notices a little easier. Here's ...
2
votes
3answers
3k views

add_action with a class method is causing fatal errors

I wasn't sure if this was a PHP issue (suited for StackOverflow) or a WordPress issue (suited for StackExchange), however since my issue appears to be with the add_action() function, I have placed the ...
0
votes
1answer
142 views

I cannot include a file in my plugin settings page

I'm trying to create a settings page. If I print things within index, I can see it. If I try to include it, I can't see anything, neither errors. add_options_page('My Plugin', 'My Plugin', ...
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2answers
478 views

Where do I put my add_action(… and add_filter(… and do I need to remove them?

I'm working on creating a plugin out of some custom code I use a lot, in hopes that other people find it useful too. It works, so yay! but... Here's my question: I feel like I'm missing some ...
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3answers
455 views

What action hook can I use to add a JavaScript to a page post using a theme template that is not including get_header() nor get_footer()?

So the reason why I am don't want to include get_header() or get_footer() tags is because this page will be loaded as an iframe using the thickbox modal plugin and its content will be a form and I ...