A function is a sequence of program instructions that perform a specific task. It is packaged as a unit that can be used wherever the according task should be performed.
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Unable to get_the_content(); of a post in Wordpress via AJAX
I'm trying to ajaxify my Wordpress theme and I use the method described here and I'm now trying get_the_content of post via functions.php. Using jQuery, when I do alert(data) I get the 'title' echo ...
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Search everything (posts, pages, tags, cpt, meta)
I would like to know how to use the built in wordpress search to return results from all content on my site. Specifically, I want to search;
posts
pages
tags
custom post type (portfolio)
custom ...
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Why is my custom meta box input not saving
I've added the following function to functions.php to add a custom meta box enabling the end user to input a gallery shortcode. I then intend to use this to place a gallery in a specific place on the ...
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Using functions from a plugin in your theme
I am a beginner to wordpress (and to php for that matter).
I am trying to understand some of the basics, and building a little e-commerce store using a plugin called "Jigoshop."
I'm reading through ...
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Add meta data to the menu
I encountered this problem what i thought to be one of the worlds simpliest things, I wanted to add a subtitle to the menu somethin alike this http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/7816/unled10b.png . Then i ...
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Hard Code Pages into a Theme for a Network (multisite) Installation
I'm creating a multisite network and I am looking for a way to have it so new blogs that are created have a couple of standard pages set up automatically.
The purpose of these pages will be to ...
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wp_remote_post with ssl:// protocol
$response = wp_remote_post( 'ssl://securesite.com', array(
'method' => 'POST',
'body' => $string, // variable is set
'timeout' => apply_filters( ...
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Adjust which tempalte a page uses with a function?
I know if I had a page that had a permalink such as /stories/ then I could create a page in my template called page-stores.php and it would load in place of the default page.php when that page loaded ...
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Best way to programatically add “rel” attributes to page and post images
For single posts and pages, I would like to add certain rel attributes to all the images on the contained therein added with the "Add Image" functionality on the edit screen.
The attribute would be ...
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Linking thumbnail to full size image
I use a function in my blog (getImage) to call thumbnails in the loop (it calls the 1st image on the post) but instead of link to the post, i would want the thumbnail to link to its full image src.
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Post the content of a specific “Custom Post Type” post within a post using a shortcode
The posts on our music blog usually include multiple tracks of music.
I want to have each individual track be its own entity--a custom post type called "track"--which I want to be able to insert ...
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If function exists, and array is met, echo function?
I have a function like the following:
<?php echo my_custom_function( array( 'category_url'=>'My Special Category' ) ); ?>
It pulls data from the "My Special Category" and displays it. I ...
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Can't access WordPress functions in file called via Ajax?
I am trying to reload the fresh posts using jQuery. As far as I know, I can't reload the contents of a div inside the page so I reload a file into that div.
The problem is that my loaded file gives ...
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How to manually add an item to a submenu in a menu generated by wp_nav_menu?
Hey. I've been trying to figure this out for a long time but can't seem to crack it.
I have created a menu using Wordpress 3 menu editor and it's all fine and working.
But I want to manually add an ...
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Convert User ID's to User Names in a single.php file
I have a post_meta "thevoters" that store users ids like: 1,2,20 ...etc,
How i can turn this id's to User Names to list them in a single page?
This will echo the numbers as text,
echo ...
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Wordpress change author email notify message?
just want to change a little bit author email notify message(wp_notify_postauthor - pluggable.php),and I'm applying filters on comment_notification_text
function myfunction(){
return "<div ...
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How can I add dropdown widget/box to admin post page?
I am trying to figure out how to add a dropdown widget to the post page. The reason I ask is because I would like to be able to have a few different post classes that the user can select while making ...
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How can one utilize a variable as a callback function name for add_settings_field
I'm trying to cut down on the amount of code that is in my theme options function. I'm adding my settings like so: add_settings_field($k,$v,$callback,$the_options,$the_group,$args);
This works for ...
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Actions according to image type and size
I want to do some actions according to image type and size, but the script I'm using is kind of heavy and is skyrocketing my wait time (first byte) from 5 to even 40 seconds (usually it's bellow a ...
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How to add the category ID to admin page
I want to add the categories ID to admin page.
I call it for my functions.php: require_once('includes/categories_custom_id.php');
The part of code:
function categoriesColumnsHeader($columns) {
...
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New Plugin: Post update pushes a copy as a revision
I've been working alot with editing of posts after they've been published. I know I can hit update on the post to just update it, but I want to have the journey of revisions available for users to ...
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How to edit bbPress template files - WordPress + BuddyPress + bbPress?
I am using BuddyPress 1.6.1, bbPress 2.1.2 and WordPress 3.4.2
I follow the guide here.
In the end, I did the trick pointed out by Sarah Gooding because mywebsite.com/forums was blank right after ...
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How to update feed only 2-3 times a week (for Feedburner email)?
So many of you know that Feedburner is a great (free) tool for sending out newsletters. The problem is that if you add content everyday, everyday emails will be sent out.
I'd like to control on ...
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How do I call wp_get_current_user() in a plugin when plugins are loaded before pluggable.php?
The current result is "PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_get_current_user()" which makes sense, but doesn't help.
I need to use $current_user.
Here is the code I'm currently using:
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Check if post is being published for the first time, or is an already published post being updated
I am building an add-on to an events module that checks for availability, since there wasn't a function for that in that module. Now that I have built the logic, there are three emails I will need to ...
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TinyMCE custom stylesheets for different post types
I use a custom stylesheet for TinyMCE, by placing custom styles in editor-style.css in my theme's directory.
I am trying to figure out how to use a different stylesheet depending on what post type we ...
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Manipulate Output of wp_list_something: select menu instead of li's
I'm working on a responsive webdesign where my navigation should swap into a select-menu when resizing the window in smaller sizes.
Is it somehow possible to add another param to functions like ...
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1answer
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Multisite, either change the name of sample-page or create new page
Is there a way to either change the name of the default Sample Page or create a new page entirely everytime a user creates a new blog on WP multisite?
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Logout redirect to current page - function
I'm looking for a function that can redirect users when they logout to the current page. I'm looking for a code I can use in functions.php?
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Set WordPress Featured Image For All Post Slugs Matching Image File Name in Specified Directory
I have a bunch of old posts on a blog that I would like to assign a featured image to.
I have retrieved all the images I would like to use for each post.
I saved each image file name after the slug ...
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Plugin Uninstall and Deactivate via Options Menu
I'm creating my first plugin (modifying an existing one for what I need) and although it's working fine i am trying to create a simple options menu to allow either deactivation of the plugin, or ...
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Make “sidebar template” the default template for new pages
On Twenty Eleven or on its child themes the default template for new pages is a template with no sidebar. I don't know why this is like this; it seems to me that the designers of Wordpress are still ...
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How Can I Access a PHP Variable in Another PHP Function
I'd like to use the $atts variable from the lax_google_map_maker() function in lax_google_map_init(). How do I access it? I tried to 'globalize' it, but for some reason it didn't work.
function ...
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When to check if a function exists
I've just started developing a WP plugin, and i've been reading some code from other plugins as a way to get started. I've seen a couple of plugins that wrap all or some of their functions in the ...
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Creating a table from shortcode avoiding wpautop for each row
I'm probably doing this all wrong, and there'll be a much simpler solution. Basically, I'm trying to build a table of tour dates that'll be editable by someone with little technical knowledge, but can ...
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How to remove row-actions from pages table?
I've already found out here how to remove the row-actions from the posts table in wordpress admin. Now I'd like to do the same in the pages table. I've looked in the core files but, well, I just don't ...
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Add parent template name to body class filter when visiting subpage or single post
how would I go about creating a filter for the body_class() tag that allows me to add the the parent pages slug name as a class to the body whenever visiting a subpage or post?
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Generate Advanced Custom Fields box in custom admin menu page
I have created an custom admin menu page called FCC Youtube with add_menu_page function
which has some custom fields I manually generated via HTML and PHP:
code ( just the part how I created this ...
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Modifying Footnote Plugin for Descriptive Title Attributes
I've been struggling for a couple hours now to get this working... Hopefully someone here can help me.
I just started using the wp-footnotes plugin, and I'm trying to set the title attribute on ...
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javaScript in <head> section of WP API
How do I place the following javaScript in the <head> section of the Wordpress Widgets API menu screen?
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(window).load(function() {
...
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Issue with get_theme_mod returning a blank value instead of the saved value
I have what seems to be a rather troubling issue with the get_theme_mod function in the latest version of Wordpress. Only on particular servers (of which meet all Wordpress requirements) the function ...
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Placement of Code in Plugin for hooking `save_post`
I ran into a strange Problem today developing a new Plugin.
I set it up as usual, creating the f711-roomprice folder in the Plugindirectory, and creating the f711-roomprice.php as well as an inc ...
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wp-admin won't load after setting wp-login custom url
I changed the wp-login.php url to /login/ so all links in registration and forgot password emails have /login/ rather than wp-login.php.
The problem now is that when I visit /wp-admin/ or click on ...
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How can I get an <h2> tag to wrap each ancestor that gets outputted in this condition?
I found this snippet in a different thread and it mostly does what I need, but I'm having trouble wrapping the individual pages this outputs with tags. All I can seem to add is a line break. I don't ...
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How can I list random authors from current post category?
The following lists authors of the current category.
But I want this to be a list of 6 random authors from current post category.
foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) {
$postcat= ...
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Post thumbnail relative link and HTML modify
I want to remove the website url from all the_post_thumbnail() so they become relative and remove/add attributes from the output.
So far I got the following code added to functions.php of the theme, ...
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How to export comments in WordPress?
I want to export my comments to Excel, PDF or Word. The format really doesn't matter, I just want them exported.
I tried the Export Comments plugin, the standard one, but couldn't get it to work, I ...
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Find first image on paginated post for Pinterest
I've been looking for days, yet can't find a good answer. Perhaps the SE crowd can be of assistance. Any help is much appreciated.
I am using a custom-coded pinterest button included on posts that ...
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mysql custom wp query
this code is designed to select posts with selected meta value in wordpress query
<?php $values = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT DISTINCT meta_value FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE meta_key = ...
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What is the function to get plugin base url in multisite?
I'm using this function plugins_url().
But it always echoes main site url even in subsite.
So i'm getting ajax errors like Domains, protocols and ports must match.
Lets say my main domain name is ...
