Method by which plugins and themes extend core WordPress functionality.
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functions.php conditional tag - only show in single.php?
//Geo Map
add_action( 'woo_post_inside_after', 'my_geo_mashup' );
function my_geo_mashup() {
global $post;
if ( in_category('listings') ) {
echo GeoMashup::map();
}
}
Works to ...
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Remove title attribute from images
I'm looking for a way to remove the title attribute from images, preferably through using a hook or a filter.
Most clients don't bother giving images a proper title, thus eliminating the purpose of ...
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How to check if certain plugin exists and in expected version
I've created plugin that goes to wordpress plugin repositories. Now, I need to create another plugin (sub plugin or child plugin you may call) that require this certain plugin to be already installed ...
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How to remove a metabox from menu editor page?
I am not sure if it is much different for any page but I am wondering how to remove a metabox from the appearance>menu page without having to go into the wordpress core files and remove it. Is there ...
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Better post meta efficiency?
I work with websites which require using Post Meta for Post Objects within a particular Post Type.
I often add a Meta Box to a particular Post Type, to provide additional settings for the new Post ...
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Alter image output in content
I'm trying to implement the JAIL javascript into my WordPress install. The javascript requires me to add a data-attribute and change the output html of images.
I have been looking through the codex ...
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Strict tag list - user should choose only existing tags for posts
While selecting tags for the posts the user is able to create new tags on fly.
For example we have the tag 'animal' but the user misstpye it as 'aminal' - and Wordpress creates it.
In our blog the ...
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Filter all html output
I would like to make sure no email address is published in plain. So i developed a plugin that replace all email addresses by a spambot-safe alternative.
But some users put their email address in ...
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Add custom column in custom post type edit page
I am using the Content Scheduler plugin to control the post expire. The plugin will add a expiry date column on the wp-admin/edit.php in page and post. However it doesn't show in custom post type page ...
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How to get post ID in post_updated action hook?
I want to execute a function, myfunction() [hypothetically named], whenever a page is updated in the admin. The function doesn't do anything to the content that is saved—it just runs an unrelated task ...
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Showing Notifications While Activating Plugin
I want to give errors like this, while activating my plugin.
Which hooks should i use ? Can you share simple examples ?
In shortly,when user activate my plugin, is a directory's CHMOD isn't 777 , ...
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How can I see all the actions attached to an “add_action” hook?
I'm working with the admin bar and trying to debug some of the menus and their priorities.
I know several callbacks get bound to actions, such as this one:
add_action( 'admin_bar_menu', ...
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Changing “Lost Password Email Link” to custom password reset page
On the Wordpress site I am working on, subscribers will not be allowed to see anything in the backend at all. Because of that I am creating a custom pages for the Wordpress login page that subscribers ...
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Is there a filter/action to add content to WP admin metaboxes?
I want to add an instruction into a custom term meta-box.
Is there a hook to add this or is it easiest just to use JavaScript?
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How can I tell if I'm on a login page?
There are functions for is_home(), is_blog() is_single() etc...
What's the best way to tell if I'm on a page that is requesting that I login? I guess that would just be the wp-login.php page.
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Two-step login process - Is it possible?
Is it possible to do the following with Wordpress (without hacking too much code - I would like to make this a general plugin using simple hooks)?
Log in with the username/password.
If ...
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Is it possible to remove this action? (as it's added just before it's called)
In wp-signup.php there are these lines:
add_action( 'wp_head', 'wpmu_signup_stylesheet' );
get_header();
I need to remove wpmu_signup_stylesheet from the wp_head action, but I seem to be ...
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Hook any php file into the wordpress api
Say I just have a dumb .php file sitting on my WP server and I wanted it to access WP info through the API, how would I go about doing that? For example if I wanted to call
bloginfo('url');
As I ...
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hooks & filters and variables
I was updating the codex page example for action hooks, while playing around to get some reuseable functions done (originally for some Q over here @WA). But then i ran into a problem i wasn't aware of ...
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Event Calendar using insert_post_data after save_post and insert_post after post_transition draft_to_schedule
OK, I'm taking on the dreaded task of developing an event calendar for my site and have gotten a bit stuck. I'm open to any and all ideas but here's what I'm doing and what I'd like to do. I'm ...
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How do I handle multiple Submit buttons in plugin's option page?
I'm developing my first plugin for WordPress and I'm getting a grasp of the whole hook system. I'm now stuck on a (probably) small issue, that I could possibly circumvent, but I'm afraid of coming out ...
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Hook before inserting user into database
I'm working on airsoft website using woocommerce. One of my client's needs is to prevent a user to register if his name or mail is in a blacklist (I don't know yet if I'll use a csv file, a json or a ...
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How to modify post content before writing to database?
Hi~ I'm back again and I'm trying to add another function to the script I was working on a plugin that notify my friends of new post that mentions(@) them. Now I want to change the plain text of my ...
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Detect type of post status transition
I have a function on my site that it supposed to run when a new post is published (email push notification), with the exception of the same article updated (i.e publish_to_publish transition, I don't ...
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Hooking after get_header()
Does anyone know a good way to hook just after get_header() without hacking the theme? I know you can hook before the function loads header.php but I am trying to insert some HTML just after ...
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Create hooks based on an array of hook names?
I have this idea where I would create a class that would take in a set of hook names then create them, for me to use when ever, and where ever.
Currently the way to create a hook is we do something ...
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How can I filter blog name?
I want to filter the blog's name for Google's user agents.
I have tried the_title, the_content, comment_text, single_post_title, wp_title, category_description, bloginfo hooks, but none of them ...
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Conditional hook based on the core function that is calling it
In a Multisite, I'm applying the filter get_blogs_of_user to sort the "My Sites" admin bar menu, where the sites are listed by blogname:
What happens is that I'd like another order elsewhere, where ...
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How to delete all post and attachments of a user when I delete it?
When I delete a user, WordPress can just delete the post or page of this user,
not his custom post and his attachments.
An idea for a special hook?
add_action( 'delete_user', 'my_delete_user');
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How to Add Custom CSS to the Media Thickbox?
I've added a couple of custom fields to the Edit Media screen, but when these are displayed in the WP Media Thickbox (when adding images from the Edit Post screen, for example), the styling is gone.
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Count singular post views automatically
I'm trying to add some function to each loop called in the themes. What I'm doing is I add a function to count post view from here post views without plugin, to use the function I need to add this ...
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How do I display only the latest post on my home page, while maintaining proper plugin hooks?
What I'm trying to do is display the most recent post (a la my theme's "single.php") on my "home" page.
This is complicated by the fact that I have certain plugins (specifically, Scripts n Styles) ...
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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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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( $post->ID ) ...
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How to debug removal of rewrite rule flushing?
I use Custom Post Types. I try this:
functions.php
add_action( 'admin_init', 'flush_rewrite_rules' );
Now I’d like to remove this again. I try this:
remove_action( 'admin_init', ...
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Strange behaviour with add_{$meta_type}_metadata | add_post_metadata filter
I'm unsuccesfully trying to use the add_{$meta_type}_metadata. This filter is called inside add_metadata function (wp-includes/meta.php:31 in Wordpress 3.4.2).
In particular I wanna hook ...
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How to use filter hook 'post_updated_messages' in coherence with action hook 'save_post'
I am trying to send out e-mail, SMS and IM notifications to group members of this WordPress website, whenever a WordPress page in their user group has been published/updated.
I figured using the ...
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Looking for a hook for post.php
First time posting here...
I am trying to figure out if there is a hook or action that I can use when a user goes to wp-admin/post.php... Basically when the user goes to post.php I want to check if ...
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how to determine how many and what kind of arguments are passed to hooks
I am not able to understand a very logic behind add_action / add_filter
Consider following example:
function SearchFilter($query) {
if ($query->is_search) {
$query->set('post_type', ...
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Wordpress Delete hook with wp_delete_post function?
I have this action/hook:
add_action( 'before_delete_post', 'my_delete_function' );
function my_delete_function($post_id) {
global $wpdb;
$achievement = get_the_category($post_id);
$h = ...
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Need to check is_archive during init
I need to check if a page is an archive or not, before my plugin does some URI manipulations. These manipulations only work before wp but if I perform them first and then check is_archive, the check ...
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Display info from custom fields in all images' HTML
Okay, I've been working on this all day and can't find the solution anywhere. I've created a custom field within the image upload screen (info first found here). The field stores the name of a ...
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Pass variable to hook. Its possible?
I have this hook created to retrieve user password when he register or update his pass. I dont want my client to touch wordpress core so i was planning to use a hook in wp-includes/user.php
All this ...
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Hook/action after WP_Query gets posts to query custom tables for post-related meta
I see that there are hooks for manipulating WP_Query before it gets its posts (parse_query, pre_get_posts), but I can't seem to find any hooks for after the WP_Query object is populated. I have a ...
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Hooking in to replace the Sidebar/Widget areas
The Goal: To replace the sidebar on all sites across my network with content loaded from a plugin, across all themes.
I need a way of over-riding the sidebar/main widget area on all sites across my ...
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How to get all of the activate_plugin action parameters?
I am trying to hook into activate_plugin.
I know that activate_plugin has 1 required param and 2 optional ones. I am trying to acquire all 3.
Here's my setup:
// create plugin settings menu
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From what hook on is it possible to conditionally add actions?
I tried to have a siderbar registered at the "init" hook based on a variable from the theme options array indicating whether the sidebar should be used in the design.
Now it appears that that the ...
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Executing Arbitrary Code at a Specific URL without Creating a Post or Page?
I am trying to figure out which hooks I can tie into in order to read the incoming URL prior to the query actually being run. A quick look tells me maybe wp_loaded or posts_selection would be good ...
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Modifying the comments section through a plugin regardless of theme
I need to be able to add some data (text/images) to each comment in the comments section through a plugin. What I'm trying to do is actually very similar to the way the stack exchange sites have their ...
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Hide content editor for posts after approriate date
I am tuning my new site and i what to disable Content Editor for post created after date X, but for posts that created before that date Content Editor must be on its place.
