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How to save the values of checkbox to the register setting?
<?php
function default_menu() {
<form action="options.php" method="post">
<?php settings_fields( 'sample_check' );?>
<input type="checkbox" name="sample" value="nofollow"/>
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How do wordpress hooks respond to user interaction?
Embarrassingly big hole in my understanding!
When I've finished editing a post and click the big blue "Update" button, what happens next? In particular, how does the 'pre-post-update' hook (which, ...
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Hooks are not being removed in child theme
I have a hook file:
function load_admin_package(){
do_action('load_admin_package');
}
/*
* -----------------------------------
* Define hooks bellow
* -----------------------------------
*/
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How to display a message about updates in the plugin list
I am trying to use the hook in_plugin_update_message in order to display a one line message below the name of my plugin in the admin plugin list section.
However, the function called in the hook does ...
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add_action on inherit post status
I'm trying to use the add_action() hook to run a custom function, but am struggling with the post status.
I originally tried using:
add_action('pending_to_publish_portfolio', 'my_function');
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get_query_var() not working in pre_get_posts
I'm using the pre_get_posts hook to order the main query on all my custom post type / taxonomy pages using a custom meta value. As part of the logic, I am trying to determine which taxonomy is ...
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Implement Hooks Using Array
I'm trying to implement some hooks into a theme, but rather than write out every hook with repetitive code I was wondering if I could use and array to declare the hooks instead.
E.g. ordinarily i'd ...
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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 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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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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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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Copy post to separate database with “add_action(…)”
I'm basically trying to have a copy of a post be sent to another database's table when it's published. I've gotten it to add a new row in the new table, with my own static arguments, but I'm not sure ...
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Save_post for custom post type?
Is there a save_post hook for custom post types?
example: save_my_post_type
I know there is publish_my_post_type but I'm looking for a save hook.
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Hook into existing tinyMCE button
Is there a way to hook into an existing tinyMCE editor button?
I have a plugin that currently has a button on the editor and it shows a popup-box when clicked. This box has tabs inside.
I would like ...
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Add a new confirmation page before saving
I'm going to add a hook that does some modifications of the text before saving. Before making the changes permanent, I would like the user to confirm the changes after a "save_post" hook. Is there a ...
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Featured image upload finished hook
I'm looking for a way to hook into the process of uploading a featured image. Ideally I would want to be able to do some stuff right when the upload has finished, before the thumbnails are generated.
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Enqueue script from widget method (of extended WP_widget object) possible? (slightly different from other variations of this question)
I am creating a widget plugin that a user could potentially use multiple iterations of the widget multiple times on a single widget-area / multiple widget-areas on a single page. Because of its ...
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Can I hook into wp_update_core outside of the admin?
I'm trying to bring some of the admin functionality to a custom front end in WordPress. Questions of security and pragmatism of this aside, is there an available hook to trigger wp_update_core outside ...
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Which action does wp_update_user triggers?
I am working modifying an ecommerce plugin, and it makes uses of wp_update_user() function, and everytime the function runs another table (created by the plugin), gets updated too. The problem is that ...
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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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Send along login credentials with comment content
I'd like to allow my users to send their WordPress login credentials along with their comment, as opposed to having to log in first, and then post their comment. I'm not really sure where to hook into ...
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Registration Hooks don't appear to be working
I am trying to hook in to automatically sign-in the user after registration. (using a GravityForms registration form).
None of the hooks seem to be working. I've tried: gform_user_registered, ...
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Hooking into the post editing screen for an existing page only
I am working on a Wordpress theme that hides the default WYSIWYG editor and replaces it with a custom module system which is fine and dandy, but I've come to the realisation if someone were to use the ...
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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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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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What can I hook into after_setup_theme?
I'm wondering what can I or should I NOT hook to after_setup_theme? I'm wondering because I have been told that I shouldn't hook wp_enqueue_style to it, but I have seen other places using it to hook ...
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What are ideal hooks to call register_sidebars?
Where should a plugin ideally hook to call register_sidebar();?
Will init do just fine?
function my_plugin_register_sidebars() {
$args = array(
'name' => 'foo'
'description' ...
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wp_enqueue_script before wp_head
If this works (and it's the way people do in a bunch of themes around the web):
<html>
<head>
<!-- stuff -->
<?php wp_enqueue_script('jquery'); ?>
<?php ...
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What action hook can I use to add a JavaScript to a page post using a theme template that is not including get_header() nor get_footer()?
So the reason why I am don't want to include get_header() or get_footer() tags is because this page will be loaded as an iframe using the thickbox modal plugin and its content will be a form and I ...
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Is there an “Add Page” hook?
I'm looking for the action hook corresponding to the click on the "Add page" link. Any idea?
Thanks !
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A good way to add a different background image for each page?
I'm working an a Thematic child theme wherein I need to have a unique image decorating each of the site's main pages, from a pre-defined set of permanent images. It would also be ideal to have one of ...
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How can I add a filter to a particular post format?
I have several post formats and I want to use add_filter selectively, applying the filter to some of the post formats but not all. When I do this in my functions.php file it affect all the post ...
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Filter post before *editing*
I know there are a lot of hooks in WP for altering a posts content (and other fields) before the post is written to the DB upon saving; but what I am interested in doing is running my custom filter ...
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Does the 'nav_menu_css_class' filter accept 2 or 3 arguments?
I've been using the nav_menu_css_class filter in one of my plugins, implemented as:
add_filter( 'nav_menu_css_class', 'wbwcrf_nav_menu_css_class', 10, 3 );
function wbwcrf_nav_menu_css_class( ...
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Hook into a function without a hook?
I have just got into using hooks and have now understand the beauty of them. I understand that I can hook into the following by using add_filter('hook_name','my_hook_name', $variable);
function ...
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Would there be anything stopping me from removing both wp_head and wp_footer?
Some plugins rely on either wp_head or wp_footer or both to introduce their own stylesheets and JavaScript. Those scripts take time to load and slow down my website. Therefore, I would like manually ...
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How do I implement the Wordpress Iris picker into my plugin on the front-end?
This question here is asking the same question as I am, but there were no adequate answers nor a selected correct answer so I am asking again hoping if I ask in a more coherent manner I might get a ...
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Plugin uninstall function is not working
I am updating my plugin for Wordpress version 3.5 compatibility. These are my important plugin files:
Sort_SearchResult_by_Title.php:
<?php
if(!class_exists('Class_Sortsearchresults'))
{
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Using the 'draft_to_publish' hook (post status transition)
I am trying to use the draft_to_publish hook (http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Status_Transitions) to run a function when a post that is a draft becomes published. This hook does not appear to be ...
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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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How can I edit post data before it is saved?
I have a plugin and I would like to be able to run the post content through some filters before it is saved to the database. From looking at the plugin api, I see that two hooks that look like they ...
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How to fix my old theme so it loads jQuery properly
I have an older theme that is loading jQuery 'manually', and this conflicts with all plugins that are trying to use jQuery.
The following lines are included in the theme header:
<script ...
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File names are being overridden when uploading new media
I want to hook into the media upload function and prefix file names with a timestamp. We're uploading a lot of stuff within a month, so we can't rely on the directory structure, and we're also dealing ...
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Giving the_excerpt in the place of the_content?
Short and sweet — I wanted to deliver up the excerpt of a post in the place of the_content on certain pages. Naturally, if no excerpt is present one would be generated from the content. I ...
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Filter or Hook to catch pre-rendering of post content
Is there a filter or hook that is triggered just before post content is rendered?
What I'd like to do is to apply a filter to the text content of a post just before the post text is being rendered.
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Does admin_print_scripts-$hook_suffix work for nested paths to individual files?
Can the hook admin_print_scripts-$hook_suffix be used for a hook which has been created like $hookname = get_plugin_page_hookname("my-quiz/lib/admin/$code_page", '' );?
.. where $code_page is ...
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It's okay if I do not write add_action()
I downloaded various themes on net and I found on functions.php they write something like this
Example to remove inline comment style.
function demo_remove_recent_comments_style() {
add_filter( ...
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Why enqueue styles on hook
Why do we need to enqueue styles on a hook, why not just enqueue them straight in like this?
wp_enqueue_style( $handle, $src);
the codex page gives an example of using a hook but doesn't explain ...
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Theme not calling Jquery properly
I am developing a theme and I have called jquery along with other JS files from a theme-enqueue.php file. For some reason only the Jquery file that is hosted on googles servers is adding the theme URL ...
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Hook to be used when creating a database table
I read the Codex and some other tutorials describing the process of creating a new table for WordPress.
I thing that the steps are pretty straightforward; however, I'm encountering a small problem.
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