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Hierarchical taxonomy UI
I don't like the way the taxonomies are displayed within the Wordpress admin and was wondering if anyone knew the best way to hook in and change it. Currently if I select some terms within my post ...
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What hook is used to display the admin_bar on the front end?
Or, how is the admin_bar displayed at all? I'm looking to display a similarly styled menu, but for all users who visit.
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load-* hook for dashboard
I'm trying to add a screen option to the dashboard screen.
I have a function like:
my_function() {
...
add_screen_option()
...
}
Now, I need to know the correct action hook $hook to ...
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How to set Media Box form elements default value?
I am developing a plugin to customize wordpress administration.
Creating / Editing an article, when i user insert an image from media library or uploading it, i want to clear the image title, as ...
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Adding a form at the end of the content
I'm trying to add a little form after each post for a plugin I have to code, but I'm not very familiar with Wordpress. By using add_action with the_content as hook, I was able to add some text to the ...
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How to Debug the 'save_post' Action?
Is it possible to validate PHP code?
I have a Custom Post Type (Film) with Custom Meta Boxes.
Everything is working fine, I can add new Films and details to the Custom Meta Boxes.
My problem is ...
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Query author's posts & posts that have author's id as meta value
I am trying to get posts with an author's ID as a meta value in the author.php template using additional request parameter.
For example I want posts with john's ID as a meta value using a request ...
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Function is Missing an Action Hook
I have tied an action into a status change, which works on the backend. However,using a frontend button for updating post status does not trigger the ...
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Do WordPress Core Filenames Work as Hooks?
This is in reference to another answer here on wordpress.stackexchange. The answerer used the filename as the hook to enqueue scripts and styles to certain pages.
add_action( ...
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When to use actions and when to use filters
I'm trying to understand where to use filters and where to use actions.
Suppose I have a query in a plugin, which later add on modules might modify to change the results of the query, thus modifying ...
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frontend show edit profile with selected custom options
So I have many custom user profile fields.
When I use do_action( 'show_user_profile', $profileuser ); hook it displays all custom user profile fields..
But I would like to show only certain fields. ...
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How to inject content after <body>
I would like to inject some elements directly after the <body> tag.
Is that possible using only WordPress hooks?
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Filter WooCommerce Orders
I am using woocommerce for a "multi-seller" system. Meaning one site (no multi-site), but many sellers with different products.
To let each owner only manage it's own orders, it would like to filter ...
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Want to redirect if search query match exact title of any post
I am using WordPress 3.3.1 and new to this system. I want to redirect the search query to the post if query exactly matches post title of some post.
I also want it to run before any search query ...
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How should I intercept the main query and inject custom join / order by / group by criteria
I have a CPT that is a member of two separate taxonomies. On the taxonomy archive page for one of the taxonomies, I need to further group and sort on the second taxonomy like so:
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Is there any debug toolbar that shows whick hooks are called for the current page in Wordpress?
In Django there is a debug toolbar that shows which template files and hooks are called while rendering a page.
Is there any plugin that shows which hooks are called for the current page in ...
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Check if action hook exists before adding actions to it
I am trying to add a rel=next and rel=prev link tags to the head element of image.php template file. I have Wordpress SEO installed and I like to hook to this plugin wpseo_head action hook to achieve ...
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Why do some hooks not work inside class context?
I'm pretty stumped on this one. I'm using add_action inside my plugin class to do certain things- add scripts & styles to the head, wp_ajax, etc. Here's the actions, in the __construct:
function ...
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Determining a Widget Instance and Sidebar Location?
When using the filter:
add_filter('widget_display_callback', 'function_name');
function function_name($instance) {
/* Some Code */
return $instance;
}
Is it possible to determine the sidebar ...
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How to Modify Default Text in a Custom Taxonomy Admin Panel?
I’d like to make a tiny change in one of my custom taxonomy admin panels: rename the label "Description" to "Title".
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WP Multisite: Adding pages on blog creation by default
I’d like to have a page added by default when a new site is created with WP Multisite.
So I have my function that creates two pages:
function my_default_pages() {
$default_pages = ...
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Filter dashboard custom post listing by user
Did some research, but I was unable to implement it after all.
I have a custom post type accessible only by a new role. I want to filter the post type listing so that each user should see only his ...
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Checking post format during xmlrpc_publish_post
WordPress apparently stores post format information outside of the $post object. During publish_post this isn't (usually) a problem because you can check on formats via get_post_format( $post->ID ) ...
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Action hook for custom tax edit
So, i have a function in my template file functions.php which cache a search form that contain a custom taxonomie terms. I want to flush cache (or delete one cache group) when I add/delete/edit terms ...
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How to hook into unregistering a widget instance?
I would like to hook into a widget instance after it is removed from a sidebar panel on the Appearances -> Widgets admin page.
So if the instance was an active widget and then removed, I would like ...
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RSS Feed Custom Title?
For some reason my RSS feed is repeating the site title twice without a space, obviously quite annoying.
BlognameBlogname for example.
Is there any hook i can use to have a custom title for the RSS ...
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How do I make a theme “plugin-ready”?
How do I revise a theme so that I can publish my event hooks and anyone can build a plugin to add new functionality easily to my theme?
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Change the look of the media uploader
I have been trying to find out for a while now if there is a way to totally change the look of the pop up media uploader.
How can I alter the content and the layout of that page? Which hooks should I ...
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Where exactly does the edit_{taxonomy} hook fire?
I'm at my wits end. I'm beginning a project that may involve using an action hook in WP that is not well-documented: edit_{$taxonomy}
I'm trying to determine exactly when this hook runs, so I just ...
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Execute function when post is published
I try to use this function i have created when a post is published for the first time.
function a_new_post($post){
$post_id = $post->ID;
if ( !get_post_meta( $post_id, 'firstpublish', $single ...
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Adding option to Gallery shortcode
just starting out in WP dev, and I'm looking for any guidance I can get. What I'd like to do is use a hook or filter to add my own option to the core WP gallery shortcode. I would want it to work just ...
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add_action failed to display function by a plugin
I am using a plugin which has the following function: See end of question.
And I've created a hook in my template file:
<?php custom_hook(); ?>
And this is what I have in my functions.php
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Hook for post and page load
I need to run a function when a particular post or page is loaded. Is there any hook that lets me check whether a post is being displayed during page load ?
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About Hooks and Filters
Well, am having a very hard time understanding the difference between Actions and Filters. I do use actions in my code, but am a rookie and I don't know even a slightest bit of Filters.
I have been ...
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How To Determine If A Filter Is Called In A Sidebar/Widget Context?
So I have a plugin that appends or prepends an enhanced author biography to the content of a page/post/custom post type.
It does this by hooking to either the_content or the_excerpt and ...
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get $post in init filter or action?
It seems that $post is only available to hooks executing at certain times. I have an "init" hook that needs to pull some data from the database using the $post->ID.
So far my only workaround has ...
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Add action hook conditionally - only when home.php in use
I am trying to add action hook in functions.php only if the page is home.php but the following does not work
if ( is_page_template("home.php") ) {
// do stuff
}
To make sure that file being used ...
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Use wp init hook to call other hooks?
I want to know if it is a good practice according to WordPress theme or plugin development.
add_action('init','all_my_hooks');
function all_my_hooks(){
// some initialization stuff here and then
...
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Add custom fields after post/page title
I am using the Headway theme, and I need to add custom field code to page & posttitles.
This is what I need to be able to do.
The red button will be added through a custom field. It needs to be ...
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How to debug removal of rewrite rule flushing?
I use Custom Post Types. I try this:
functions.php
add_action( 'admin_init', 'flush_rewrite_rules' );
Now I’d like to remove this again. I try this:
remove_action( 'admin_init', ...
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Strange behaviour with add_{$meta_type}_metadata | add_post_metadata filter
I'm unsuccesfully trying to use the add_{$meta_type}_metadata. This filter is called inside add_metadata function (wp-includes/meta.php:31 in Wordpress 3.4.2).
In particular I wanna hook ...
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Hook for URL request
I would like to make XML files downloadable, instead of allowing the browser to displaying them inline.
I know I can use the Content-Disposition: attachment HTTP header (of course, better solutions ...
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Firing a function AFTER redirect
I am using a function that redirects the user to a custom page, rather than wp-login in the event of errors. In my case I am using the Http Referer function to send the user back to the same page ...
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How to get the password and username of the add new user form (admin back end) in wordpress
I am trying to get the username and password that entered by the wordpress admin in the add new user screen to use those into creating a webmail account using cpanel api.
How to do that? is there is ...
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Put code into body tags near top, using a plugin
How do I use a plugin to put this inside the body of every page on my WP site, for facebook integration. (Yes, I know other plugins can do it, but I want to do it myself.) Facebook recommends as close ...
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How to access variables in the function where apply_filters() is called?
I am trying to filter some data based on whether a variable from within the function that calls apply_filters() is equal to specific value. That variable is not passed to the apply_filters() ...
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Hooking a function onto the sidebar?
I'm looking for a way to add some content to the top of the sidebar when it get's loaded.
I've tried hooking onto the get_sidebar action as referenced here, but it seems to override the sidebar call ...
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Looking for Hook that is fired after a plugin or wp upgrade is installed/updated
I'm trying to write some code to sms me whenever someone updates/installs a plugin, or updates the WP core, but I can't seem to find a hook that gets fired when this happens. Does anyone know if there ...
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Valid characters for actions, hooks and filters
I haven't ever seen a tag such as do_action('something_10'). Is it invalid if I use numbers?
If the method is valid, how can I write different numbers in the tag string conditionally? For example, is ...
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Is there a hook for user activation (after they click the email confirm)?
Is there a hook for user activation (after they click the email confirm)? I am creating a plugin to automatically add them to my email software, but I want them to have to confirm their email first.
