Every Post in WordPress is filed under one or more Categories. Categories allow the classification of your Posts into groups and subgroups, thereby aiding viewers in the navigation and use of your site.
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Force category choice before creating new post?
How can I force the user to first choose a category before continuing to the editor when creating a new post? I want to set some default content, but this is based on the category, so I need to know ...
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WordPress Multisite - global categories
Setting up a WP multisite instance - the client has an existing ontology / set of categories that they want to classify all content across the set of blogs. Also the desire is that any new categories ...
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Can I add a Category Metabox to attachment?
I am using register_taxonomy_for_object_type() to add the Category taxonomy field to Media uploads (attachments). I'm using this code to do so:
add_action('init', 'reg_tax');
function reg_tax() {
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Remove parent category from permalink? Basically only have the child category?
I think there used to be an out-dated plugin to do this. Is there any way to do this easily with just a little code? We prefer not to rely on a plugin since that makes us dependent on the developer ...
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Adding categories to custom post type in permalink
I know people have asked this before and have gone as far as adding the custom post type, and rewrite for permalink.
The problem is I have 340 existing categories which I would like to continue ...
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Filtering categories in the permalink structure
Using /%category%/%postname%/ for the permalink I get a URL string of all the categories that the specific post is included in.
I would like the categories in the url to be filtered down to only one ...
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categories on attachment page
I am using this function to display categories specified to a post having gallery on the image attachment page.
<p>CATEGORY: <?php the_category(', '); ?></p>
The problem is that ...
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Multiple Domain Names - One WP Install (non-Multisite) - Default Each Domain name to Category Archive
Use case is somewhat simple - here goes:
Five people share a single wordpress install - not multi-user
Each person blogs and puts their posts in a their own unique category
Each person has their ...
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Adding Fields to the Category, Tag and Custom Taxonomy Edit Screen in the WordPress Admin?
The question is "How do I add one or more fields to the Category, Tag and Custom Taxonomy Edit Screen in the WordPress Admin?" This question was asked on the wp-hackers list August 1st 2010 and I ...
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How to get current_cat in navbar, in single post
In a site I have using Wordpress 3.0, when I'm in a single post, the navbar showing the categories doesn't give the parent category the class of "current_cat" and therefore that category is not ...
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How to set up sub-categories for author pages?
I am setting up Wordpress for a school. They want to enable teachers to have their own section of the site where they can create posts in different categories (assignments, events, etc).
I know that ...
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Categories assigned to custom post type not found
Here's my issue:
I have assigned a custom post type to certain categories. When I search for these categories, either through search or entering the url directly. However, if I assign a normal post ...
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Custom-Taxonomy as categories: Remove “most-used” tab?
I created a custom-taxonomy for a custom-post-type which functions as kind of categories for this post-type.
The Metabox for my taxonomy has two tabs. One for my Categories and a second tab called ...
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How to: 301 Redirect /category/ to /customname/
I've changed our "category base" in WP settings from the default "category" to "customname".
Now there are 404 errors to links containing the old category slug eg. mysite.com/category/names
What do ...
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Automated adding of one tag to all the posts in a category
I'm currently redesigning a site that has 700+ posts, divided into about 150 different categories. Some categories have 2 posts in them, other categories have 70.
Now for every category, I want to ...
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Missing “category_children” option when dynamically creating categories via a plugin
I've isolated the source of a fatal error that's been occurring when a brand new site is previewed just after installing and activating the plugin I'm working on.
The problem appears to be that the ...
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How To Modify The Loop in archives.php To Have 11 Posts Per Page and CSS Styling
I edited my loop in archives.php in order to work with pagination and with the Category Post List Widget. I basically pieced it all together from random code and ideas and am now so far from the ...
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Make parent categories not selectable
I'd like that my categories having child-categories don't be selectable on the post article page.
What I want to do is to remove the checkbox before their label.
I've looked the filter documentation ...
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How would I increase the Author Role to be able to add a new category?
How do I increase Author Role permissions to be able to add Categories?
Other solutions welcome. We just need guest authors to be able to add categories while ensuring there is not already a existing ...
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How can I make all subcategories use the template of its category parent?
(Satisfying minimum text requirement)
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Can I set a default featured image for a category?
I'm setting up a site with a theme that takes advantage of the "featured image" feature of WordPress. Since my end users are not the most tech saavy in the world, I'd like to set things up so that the ...
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Is there an easy way to make a meta box have the tabs like the Categories meta box has?
My question is pretty much summed up in the title. I'm dropping a meta box in the New Post / Edit Post admin page, and I want to be able to set it up with tabs like the Categories meta box has. I ...
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Wordpress Multiple Category Search
From few months I am digging into wordpress for multiple category search options, and finally came up with this.
I just found that wordpress allows multiple tags, which means that if in your URL you ...
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Plugin for custom sort order for categories?
I'd like to employ a sort order option in my theme to allow categories to be sorted similar to pages. Can anyone recommend a plugin that does this?
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How to display regular posts & custom post types that fall under a category using just the generic category template?
1) My site has posts, and 2 custom post types (news & essays)
2) They all share normal categories like sports & health (no custom taxanomy involved)
3) Using the generic category.php template, ...
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How can you make permalink work for custom post type and taxonomy?
I have spent days now trying to figure this out, StackOverflow is my last resort. All I want is the following:
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Multiple level category drop-down
I'm using WordPress as a CMS and would like to have categories selectable from multiple selections i.e <option>.
As a usage example, The first dropdown would contain parent categories. Then ...
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Exclude Category From Home Page, Display Posts on It's Own Page?
I created a new category with the ID of 57, how do I exclude this category from the homepage/blog and then list the posts from this category on its own page?
this is what my index.php looks like
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Share one taxonomy across multiple blogs in 3.0 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
WordPress Multisite - global categories
I have a series of blogs that will use some, but not all, of the same posts. We have one blog where many of the posts are ...
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Display only the latest post from multiple categories
I have a jQuery slider at the top of my index.php, which works fine. The only problem is that I would like to use query_posts to only display the latest post from five different categories, and always ...
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Creating archive pages for children categories
Example:
video cat id = 4
video cat child category id's = 7,8,9
news cat id = 5
news cat child category id's = 11,12,13
I wanna display choosen categories ( like video and news ) in the different ...
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Listing Parent, Child and GrandChild Categories and then the PostTitles on Page Template !
What I want to do is a loop like this is something like this I'm really sorry but its hard to format here!
I going to put this short url http://pastebin.com/dEdKzgJz so you can see it better... Can ...
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Filter get_categories() for taxonomy term in WordPress
I want to show a category only if a (custom) post is in that category AND region = $name for that post.
So, e.g. I have a custom post (type "business") named "Mamma Mia" in child-category: ...
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Showing all the posts in one page?
There are over 200 posts tagged with the keyword "Apple."
Each tag page -- example.com/tag/apple/page/2/ -- shows 10 posts.
So there are 20 tag pages.
Is it possible to show all these 200 post ...
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Adding Custom User Profile data based upon Categories
Based upon the code found here: How To Add Custom Form Fields To The User Profile Page?
How Could I alter this so that users could check one of several boxes based upon categories I have setup in the ...
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How can I hide a category from Contributors in the edit/add new post screen?
I have a situation where I need to hide a specific category and it's children from users who are logged in as Contributors. I don't want them to see this category and it's children in the categories ...
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How to change permalink structure for custom post type and it's taxonomies?
This is a repost of an earlier question I had, but I like to go into more details now to be able to fully solve this.
So again, with (normal) posts changing the permalink is as easy as going to ...
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Adding default post content for category
I'm trying to add some default content to my posts using this code in my functions.php:
add_filter( 'default_content', 'my_editor_content' );
function my_editor_content( $content ) {
$content = "My ...
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How to Change the Categories Order in the Admin Dashboard?
The order of categories on dashboard is alphabetical. Can I change it to custom order?
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Custom query with category exclusion and post-meta “whitelist”
I have two widgets, one shows News while the other shows everything except News (We'll call the second one Blog). The blog portion is currently working correctly.
The News posts are either ...
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wp_nav_menu not appearing correctly on category page
this is the code i am using to call wp_nav_menu
<?php
wp_nav_menu(
array(
'container_class' => 'menu-header',
'theme_location' => '',
...
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Equivalent to in_category() for subcategories
Wordpress provides conditionals like is_home() and is_category(). I'd like a function to tell me if the current context belongs to a category that is a subcategory (so, not a parent).
I tried this, ...
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How to? Redirect /category/sci-fi/ to /category/scifi/?
I changed the wordpress category slug from "sci-fi" to "scifi" a few months back by accident.
How can I redirect
/category/sci-fi/ to /category/scifi/
so that /category/sci-fi/page/2/, ...
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How to totally get rid of Category in my blog?
I prefer using tags and have no interest in using the categories. All my posts now are labeled with a category named "Uncategorized" and I want to turn them off! I want no more categories at all. How ...
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How can i use ajax with check-box categories
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how can i build a search filter someting like that ( ex: http://tvpedia.org/gen/actiune)
with wordpress,
I have a custom post type name: Locatii, that custom post type have categories.
Ex: Cat ...
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how to set category name for a post
how to set category name for post:
this is my code ,this is not working ,why?
$post_title = $vname;
$categ='category name';
$post_content = '[newpage link="'.$videos.'"]';
...
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Adding Categories to a WordPress Custom Post Type?
Is it possible to add categories to a Custom Post Type in WordPress?
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How do I create a way for users to assign categories to a post from the frontend?
Basic idea is for any post on the site, I'd like users to be able to assign a category for it by selecting from a set of checkboxes on the frontend. This would be a kind of crowd-sourced ...
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Create subdomains for tags and categories
I'd like to find a way to make subdomain addresses work for some of my important tags and categories. For instance foo.thesite.com would show content for thesite.com/category/foo.
I've been trying to ...
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Using categories & “stickyness” together
I've got a custom query on my homepage showing all posts in a certain category. I need this query to respect sticky posts, but it seems from my research that category queries ignore stickyness. My ...
