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How to add thumbnails to posts and pages automatically in a uniformed fixed elegant way?
please i am wondering if there was a plugin or hack that enables me to append a nice looking thumbnail for each post or page i publish on my blog.
Currently, i am able to add the featured images but ...
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Auto-posting images from library?
I'm in the process of setting up a photo-only WordPress blog and was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction for the solution I'm trying to seek.
Is it possible to bulk upload ...
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Update a WordPress website FROM Twitter or Facebook
I'm looking for a way to update a wordpress website when I post something to a specific twitter or facebook account.
Is it possible? Is there any plugin that do this?
I find only plugins that do the ...
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Automatically create child pages when saving a (parent) page
I have a bit of a tricky one...
I have a hierarchical Custom Post Type ('shows') that represents events. Is it possible for the user to create a new page (ie show), save the page and for Wordpress to ...
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Auto-Import of WXR File
I am running a WPMU instance and need to import around 1200 sites at once. I have put a process in place to create a properly formatted WXR file for each one. What I am missing at this point is how to ...
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Auto create post title in admin
I want to be able to generate titles automatically for a certain custom post type in WP admin. Been looking for a solution but I'm not sure if I'm headed in the right direction by adding this hook -
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Automatically Creating Posts for Popular Forum Topics or Products
I am integrating a Wordpress template with Buddypress (with bbPress included).
I would like to automatically create a post for popular forum topics so that it will show in my main page. I am hoping ...
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How to add terms to taxonomy with wp_insert_terms?
I have a huge excel database of locations which I want to add as terms to my current taxonomy.
However, i don't know the best way to do this, as inserting manually could take weeks : (
I have ...
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Automatically remove trashed pages from nav menu
As it is now, when a page that is in the nav menu is trashed, it still stays in the menu until manually remove via the nav menu editor. Is it possible to have trashed pages removed automatically?
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Plugin to set all Posts in a certain Category to a certain Post Format
I want to setup my WordPress so that whenever I create a post with the category "Tweet", my wordpress installation automatically changes the post format from post to aside. This will help me because I ...
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Posting Instagram Photos Automatically
I'd like to post my Instagram photos to my WordPress blog.
I cannot use one of the many existing Instagram plugins, though, because those plugins simply post the images on my blog but they are still ...
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Auto create Nextgen Gallery on post creation
I was wondering if there is a way to create a nextgen gallery with a function, so that I can hook that into my front end post creation setup. The gallery could be completely empty or be created with ...
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Auto add content such as pages upon plugin activation?
I'm creating my first plugin and it requires some pages with content to functionally work properly.
I was wondering if it is possible to show a message like "Click here to automatically add the ...
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how to query posts and auto assign category if post title has keyword
how can i query posts by current date and auto assign category based on keyword found on post title, something like if title contains 'oranges' auto assign it 'oranges' category
maybe something like ...
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Repeatable configuration package
It's normal that a developer or a shop will spend several hours on each project running the same configuration options (for permalinks, SEO options, user roles, plugins that you always use etc.).
I'm ...
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A Way to Auto update plugins using cron?
Is there a solution to keep plugins updated with wordpress by auto upgrade them without need to access to the admin panel every time?
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Timed post and tweet?
I'm new to wordpress. Is it possible to say i would like to make this article public on this day and time AND have wordpress tweet it? Possibly tweeting the subject+link or a twitter msg i add in + ...
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IP camera jpg stream to post
what are your ideas on grabbing an ip webcams jpg image (which is updated every few seconds) and automatically posting it via wordpress. What would be the best approach?
Basically I would like to ...
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Automate post update for all posts?
I have managed to fill custom fields with certain predefined values of all my post, but the changes don't take effect until I manually update the posts.
Example:
// Predefined variable and value
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How can I automatically add child pages to pages in a WP menu?
In the WP menu creation GUI there's the Automatically add top level pages option. I would like to do the opposite, for any page that is in the menu, automatically add it's child pages. Is there a way ...
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Is there any free (or cheap) software that can be used for testing WordPress functionality?
Is there any free (or cheap) software that can be used for testing WordPress functionality?
I would like to create some test scripts and then them against my self-hosted WordPress installation.
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How can I automatically duplicate a site's pages onto network site?
Basically there are sub-sites that inherit all the pages. But I have worked out ways for each page to be unique to their location, by creating a shortcode that pulls in the Blog Description. The point ...
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Automatically email daily archive
Is it possible to automatically email the daily archive.php page as an html email newsletter?
For example, at 4am every weekday WordPress would send an email of the 2011/04/25/ page.
Any input is ...
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Multiple developers / editors working on a site in progress
Background
I'm nearing the final stages of constructing my first fairly large WordPress site, and I'm now encountering some friction. For the most part, the site was developed on my local machine and ...
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Best way to automate the page/post publication process?
I'm working on a spreadsheet that has the contact information for thousands of training programs related to my niche. I'm wondering if any of you know a way to automate the process of creating a ...
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Multiple auto-generated image slideshows/sliders on each (custom) post?
I'm working on a site for a client, which will have a custom post type (homes). I'd like the client to be able to add new posts, which would ideally include multiple pictures, in different ...
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Automating Excerpt
I am trying to automate editors work by automating excerpts.
My solution works but there are few problems with it:
If a post has images/broken html at the beginning it breaks the layout.
Substring ...
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Are plugins like WP Robot considered as spammy by the community?
WP Robot looks like a very powerful plugin, but one which could be used for all sorts of spammy websites. Just wondering what the general community opinion is of these plugins? Are they useful or ...
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How to delete the Hello Dolly plugin automatically?
I'm planing to create a plugin called Goodbye Dolly. Once installed, it will take care for the installation to remove the auto-installing Hello Dolly (Wordpress Plugin) shipping with wordpress.
This ...
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Downsizing Many Large Images Attached to Posts, in Bulk?
(Moderator's note: The original title was: "Shrink full size images in post")
I built a WordPress site for someone and they entered a ton of posts with images that are wider than the content area. Is ...
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Automating a Daily Picture Blog?
I was wondering if anyone could give me some suggestions on how best I could streamline the following;
I have a WordPress blog (privately hosted) which I update daily (well, I normally schedule a ...
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Method/Plugin/Hack to Start a Post with an Writing Outline?
I'm looking for a method/plugin/hack to auto-insert an outline when I start a new post in Wordpress. I've searched online for ideas as well as the WP Plugin repo with no luck.
Essentially, many of ...
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Plugin for automated upgrade of WordPress core and it's plugins?
Is it possible to get your wordpress site to upgrade itself automatically. What I mean is, when plugins etc. needs to be upgraded, can you just press a button, or have a cron job, download the new ...
