The ins and outs of using WordPress as a Content Management System. This includes plugins & themes development that support Custom-Post-Type, Custom-Taxonomy, modification on wp-admin and much more.
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Fatal error: Cannot redeclare comment_theme()
I have this wordpress site build up. In the blog section my post is getting repeated which I do not want how can I get rid of this situation
Use this link: ...
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Should I use “Categories ” or “Pages” for a WordPress Static Site (A non blog site)?
I want to use WordPress for a Company Site which is not a blog; that will have regular pages, such as "About Us", "our Products", "Our Services", etc.
What is the best way to use WordPress for this ...
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Wordpress on shared hosting [closed]
my website was self made cms by me, after 5 years i decided to migrate my site to wordpress CMS, without changing my (shared hosting) company infomaniak.
After about 1 month my hosting company has ...
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Downsides to not using built-in “Posts” post type?
I plan on skipping the Posts post type once and for all. This is a brand new portal. It will have 100s of thousands of content in the form of articles, multimedia, and links. Instead of Posts, I will ...
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Implementing a CrunchBase.com Clone using WordPress?
I wish to create something like CrunchBase.com
with WordPress.org (So to have one website that is a "database", and another one, which is a blog, that connects to it).
Is it possible? and how?
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Problem with articles feed: XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
I have a problem with WordPress articles feed. I have discover it analyzing what googlebot is scanning on my site and I disconvered that it is scanning only the feed and not the articles...
So I have ...
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How to set up an entity (post-type?) with many dependent entities (more post-types?)
I want the wordpress CMS to manage a new type of content called Athletes. The data structure for Athlete would be as follows:
Athlete.name
Athlete.date_of_birth
Athlete.profile
etc...
An athlete ...
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Strange problems when I try to insert HTML\XML code snippet in my posts
I am experiencing some problems while trying to insert XML code snippet into my WordPress articles.
I have just read this tutorial: http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Code_in_Your_Posts
I am using ...
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After server migration (local server to online server) permalink don't work
I am finding some difficulties with Permalink after have migrate my blog from my apache local server to an apache online server.
I have used the Search and Replace Tool on my online server script: ...
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How to create a category menu in Word Press?
I am new in WordPress world (before now I always used Joomla and some other old CMS)
Now I am testing WordPress and I have some doubts about how create a navigation menu in my WP Site.
This is my ...
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Widget Management/Sidebar Strategy for CMS sites
I've been mulling of this question for a while and try out different approaches for each site: What is a flexible approach to managing widgets on a CMS sidebar that is easy to use and maintain as well ...
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How to prevent a post from being deleted?
For auditing issue, I only want a post can be trashed, but not deleted - for all users.
So I have a plugin like
add_action('before_delete_post', function($id) {
wp_die(0);
});
But ...
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Is there a good way to use CMS images with CSS
I am building a responsive wordpress theme that allows for a custom banner image to be uploaded to each page. However, because of the responsive nature of the theme I need to set the images as ...
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Auto post from Wordpress to PhpBB [closed]
I need to automatically post what I write on WordPress (latest version) on a forum (phpBB latest version). You know you recommend a plugin or a guide?
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Style custom columns in admin panels (especially to adjust column cell widths)
I am using Wordpress as a CMS for a project which makes extensive use of custom post types. I need to display columns in admin panels for each custom post type in a different way.
I've already ...
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Pods CMS: How to add custom column to Adnvanced Content Type
I'm using Pods plugin (ver 2.2) to create some 'Pods' or Advanced Content Types, as they would refer to it, which are like custom post types but are actually separate from WP, blank slate, in their ...
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Stress testing WordPress
We are going to launch a community site with 100K posts, 100K comments, 10K terms, 5 users ( all admin/editorial), and approx 500K recs in the wp_postmeta.
Site may grow with a larger author base and ...
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How can I make a custom post type that loops pages in a new dashboard page, each single page is a new dashboard page (all within the back-end)?
I've been wanting to make the most out of WordPress, to use it more and more like a CMS as it truly is a wonderful project. Out of all the CMS/Blogging webapps, WordPress wins in my book.
I ...
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Pull the content out of a page
I wanna pull the data from this area "see the red area on the image below"
Out to a specific template
I have a page template named page.php
<div class="contentholder">
<?php ...
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Content management for static pages
A corporate website has a few static pages, each with a specific layout, several independent blocks of text (located in different columns or zones of the page) and images. So far I handled this by ...
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Get Drupal user into WordPress
I have a Drupal site, and into it, a WordPress site.
I would like to know how to get user info of drupal site in WordPress site ?
in fact if your a user of wwww.mydrupalsite.com, how can I pass user ...
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How do I create a custom post type for a training CMS in WordPress?
I need to create a custom post type based on the existing 'Page' type, for a WordPress based training CMS. I have no problem simply creating a new post type, but I would like to offer some kind of ...
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When not to use Wordpress? [closed]
I have a project that I would like to do in WP, but can't really decide if it's the correct CMS or not.
Among the thing it is suppose to do is and I'm struggling with are:
Create Report/Publication ...
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Migrating from other CMS to WP - losing SEO juice?
I'm thinking about migrating a client's website from a super-old cms (xoops) to WP. However the site is quite old so I don't want him to lose any SEO juice he acquired through the years (PR: 2). ...
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Is there any CMS better than WordPress or should I roll my own? [closed]
I'm developing a small business website and want to give some control over content to the client but also allow myself control over the outputted code. Indeed allow the user to fill in the content ...
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How do I get blog posts to appear within CMS?
I'm working with a WordPress CMS website that was set up without a blog. I want the site to continue to function as it has, with mostly static pages, including the home page. I want a page called ...
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Wordpress plugin for authoring technical documentation? [closed]
We'd like to use WordPress to author the technical documentation for our software product. We've used plain-old WordPress pages, arranged then hierarchically, and it works ok, but it's not great. The ...
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WordPress product catalog site
I need to create an e-commerce site with WordPress, but not 100% e-commerce. It is just a catalog site without shopping cart. Users can see various products on the site, for example, car showcase ...
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WordPress in Drupal
I got a Drupal site, and I must install WordPress in it.
If I install WordPress to "www.mysdrupalsite/wordpress/", will it work as a standard WordPress installation ?
THANKS !
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Search form with Category and Sub Category
How to create WP Search Form with Category and Sub category
for illustration a search form (for search title Book=title post)
With condition By Keyword, By All Category and Sub Category selected
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WordPress as a data intensive web app
I would like to get some opinion about using WordPress as a data intense Web Application, let say like rememberthemilk where a user can have multiple post (task) just in a single day. Or maybe like ...
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Is there anything that Joomla or Drupal can do that can't be done in WordPress? [closed]
I have a client who wants to use Joomla, because they were told it was good. I'm trying to convince them that WordPress is a much more user-friendly option.
I've played with Joomla (and Drupal) once ...
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How do I represent 'chunks' of content within Wordpress?
I've only ever used wordpress as a self-hosted blogging platform - until now. I have a requirement to use it for a very basic CMS which will consist of ~ 10 pages, most of which will be static ...
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Can Wordpress realistically handle a site with 500 'pages'?
I'm building it from scratch and probably a 100 or so of those pages will be ecommerce.
I would like to create meaningful, normal looking permalinks for aesthetics and SEO.
I would really love to ...
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Allow users to post to a certain category
I have a website running Wordpress.
I have lots of content, e.g. tutorials, and I made a new category on a separate page, so I don't have a lot of content there. I want users to be able to add ...
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About Wordpress capabilities [closed]
I know WordPress is best for blog engine and with some plugin like Advance Custom Field, WP can become a great CMS. But it still good for publisher to push content to user. Now I have quite a ...
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Why are wordpress posts not hierarchical?
I've been using WordPress as a CMS for about 7 months now with the following core features:
Navigation Tree: Wp_list_pages for easy navigation of pages
Solr search engine: indexing posts only ...
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How can I import users into WordPress?
I have a spreadsheet (XLS) of names, email addresses, and passwords from another content management system. Is there a way to import these folks as users (I think subscriber level, but some may be ...
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How can I make post fields required in Wordpress?
I am setting up a Wordpress site as a CMS and trying to figure out a way to make certain post fields "required" before an author can publish a post.
In particular, I want authors to be required to ...
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How could I create a 'private comments' section on a custom post type?
Related to my How do I create a custom post type for a training CMS in WordPress? question, I would like to know how I can create a private comments section for a custom post type (or any post type ...
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Is wordpress a library with a default GUI?
First let me give little bit background about myself. I'm a desktop application developer and a systems programmer. I usually write all my applications in Assembly,C,C++. I'm not much of a web ...
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Tips for using WordPress as a CMS? [closed]
I want to use WordPress as a CMS for a reasonably basic site rather than a blog. I have several pages and at the moment, I don't intend to have a "news" page.
While there are ways to make this work, ...
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Restricting Users to View Only Media Library Items They Have Uploaded?
I want users to be able to upload photos using add_cap('upload_files') but in their profile page, the Media Library shows every image that's been uploaded. How can I filter that so that they can only ...
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Pods cms and “advanced custom fields” plugin
We are planning to build a quite big database to store data for our 5000 yearly subscribers association.
We were considering pods cms for our needs since it permits a good flexibility in building a ...
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My first WP development project - am I envisaging this right?
I've been asked by my friend to recreate his travel site, CMS style, in Wordpress.
His layout is something like this:
Home
About Us
-- Country landing page (with a featured tour, then links to the ...
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Different number of posts in each category
I have categories driven site. I have different template for each category. I would like to set different number of posts – different for each category. Plus I would like to add proper previous and ...
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What is the best way to manage small blocks of content on my home page?
Excuse the newbie question.
I have a home page that has 2 sections on it. None of these sections are the 'blog' which is in another section of the site. I suppose I'm looking for another way of ...
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Edit “thank you for creating with Wordpress” in version 3.3.1
Is there a way to edit the text "thank you for creating with Wordpress" in version 3.3.1 at the bottom of the CMS? If so what file do I need to edit?
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WP as a CMS menu
I've converted a client website from Joomla to WordPress. However, there is one aspect of the old site I haven't been able to replicate perfectly without modifying core WordPress.
The goal is to ...
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Wordpress Book Exchange Plugin Equivalent?
I have a client which is in need of an entirely new website. One of the features of their existing website that they wish to keep is a student book exchange, where:
students can sign-up and post any ...
