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Coding Challenge - JavaScript Easter Egg
As some of you know, there's an Easter Egg hidden in the WordPress post revision system that will display a message from the movie The Matrix if you perform a specific action (if you don't know, I ...
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What WordPress API function lists active/inactive plugins?
After seeing thousands of useful API functions in the WordPress core, I'm surprised to discover today that there ain't a function that would list the active plug-ins. I don't know you but I'm quite ...
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Removing an admin page added by a 3rd party plugin. Gravity forms in this example
I'm trying to hide a help page from editors, added by the gravity forms plugin. I believe I've run into the same issue before with other plugins, so I'd like to know the correct way to do it for 3rd ...
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Consuming an external API in WordPress?
I have a client who has a WordPress website, and he want to extend it to add new functionalities. These functionalities are included in a website I have already done (a kind of search engine over a ...
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Plugin for automatic database backup?
Is there a reliable plugin that I could use to automatically backup the WP database? It's really important that it's just the database and not the files.
I'd like it to automatically download a copy ...
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Does a plugin's “main” file need to be named the same as the folder containing it?
I remember - many moons ago - debugging a plugin that I was building for a very, very, long time. The only thing that fixed my issue (which I can't remember for the life of me), was to name the ...
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What are some examples of well-written plugins that exemplify wordpress plugin best practices? [closed]
I've searched through the stack exchange for wordpress and was unable to come up with an answer to this question. All of the wordpress codex's examples and external resources come from 2004-2006. I'd ...
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Disable update notification for individual plugins
Is there a way to disable update notifications for specific plugins?
As a plugin developer, I have some plugins installed on my personal site using the svn trunk version for testing, but the same ...
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How to Check If A Plugin Is Enabled Through API?
How to find out if a particular plugin is enabled in a sub-blog in a multisite blog?
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Jetpack plugin (ShareDaddy): Prevent share buttons showing on custom post types?
I noticed ShareDaddy has "Show sharing buttons on this post" for default post types but not for custom post types. I'm guessing I need to add something in 'supports' => ...
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How to make search engine index PDF files?
I'm looking for a plugin or a idea so that my WP 3.1 search engine can index PDF files. Has anyone be through that need too ?
Thanks !
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Best WP cache plugin for large site
I'm looking for WP cache plugin which is able to handle large number of pages. approx. 1 mil. I'm considering W3 total cache , WP super cache and few more , unfortunately I don't know which one is the ...
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Resizing all images
I have just changed the theme on my blog, and because of a small page width, it breaks the layout. Most of my earlier images (attached in posts) are around 600px in width, and now I need to resize all ...
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recommended breadcrumb plugins with possibility for hiding “Home” link
I am using Breadcrumb NavXT plug-in in my pages but now I am facing a problem
I need to hide the "Home" link in some pages. I can do that either by hiding it in CSS or by not creating it at all. ...
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Are there any drawbacks to install IntenseDebate on my blog?
I am currently using on my blog the default comment system with in addition only the "Quote Comments" plugin.
I have seen IntenseDebate and it seems it has many interesting features that probably ...
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Code markup plugin like the .wordpress.com blogs offer?
The free wordpress blogs (those hosted at wordpress.com) have a build in code formatting plugin
Is it possible to get this on private installs of wordpress? I've copied all my posts across but the ...
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Automatically Import Image into Posts from URLs on the Web?
Is there a way for me to add an <img> tag in a Post, but then have a plugin download that image, and put it on the server for me instead of me needing to manually download the file from online ...
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Secure WordPress paid plug-in
I want to create a WordPress plug-in but also want to ensure that the plugin can only be used after it has been activated with a serial key that should be unique for each domain.
What is the best way ...
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Using MathJax in text
I have installed a Mathjax plugin on my local wordpress installation, and the plugin works fine. However, I can't get it to show Latex in-text; it creates an own line for every latex formula. I end up ...
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Remove update messages for deactivated plugins
Is it possible to hide just update messages for deactivated plugins in WP 3.4+?
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Using tabs for wordpress plugin
Done my research and found this is how to call the built-in ui tabs jquery script in wp for the admin area but I'm stuck on implementing the other jquery scripts needed that I believe are built into ...
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Get URL of a specific file
I have a file that can either be included in a plugin, or in a theme. What's the best way to get the URL of the file's folder (from within the file)?
Edit:
I'm now using this for now
home_url( '/' ...
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How can I log a user out of Wordpress before the page loads?
I would am using the code below so that on my wordpress site if ?logout is appended to the end of the URL the user will be logged out. This works well - if the user visits a page such as ...
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Need a function for changing saved post_date or post_date_gmt to relative time in wordpress
I am working on a plugin and want to change the default post date to something like 'posted one min ago' OR 'posted 1 hour ago', OR 'posted on month ago'.
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Two embedded gallery in one post
I've a nice question for you.
Is there an easy way, to embed two galleries in the same post? I refer to the wordpress embedded gallery. Using a plugin of-course.
Is there outside a plugin other than ...
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A reliable AdSense plugin. Does it exist?
I've tried a bunch of AdSense plugins but I can't seem to make any work. Can someone recommend something that is known to work?
My requirements are simple: display an ad under the header.
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Sync my svn repositories
I use my own svn repositories for all my development. I am looking for an easy way to keep the svn repository wordpress provides for my plugin synced up with my own internal repository. The desired ...
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Is it a bad practice to go directly to the mysql database while developing a plugin?
This is a sample of the Vote it Up plugin:
//Run this to create an entry for a post in the voting system. Will check if the post exists. If it doesn't, it will create an entry.
function ...
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Redesigning Custom Post Type “Add New” page
I've been browsing all over google for a solution to this. I'm writing a custom post types plugin for work to log-in visitors that we get. I initially wrote a mock-up without custom post types, then I ...
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For performance is it better to build custom functionality into the theme or a plugin
This question is related to this question: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/222/do-deactivated-plugins-slow-down-a-wordpress-site
When developing a website with custom functionality for a ...
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How to create a mini directory in WordPress?
I'm looking to create a simple directory, something similar but not so powerful as SOBI2 for Joomla.
Is there something like this for Wordpress?
I want to store informations like:
Name
URL
Address ...
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Need a WordPress Plugin for Google Analytics, Favicon, Meta Keywords & Description?
I am using WordPress for my site and need to add Google Analytics, a favicon, meta keywords, meta descriptions. I searched for plugin that would do this and found different plugins for each. Can ...
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Delete Custom Dashboard Widgets
Here is the code on how to delete all dashboard widgets - the default, and plugin widgets but I want to change the code to only delete custom dashboard widgets not the default ones.
// Create the ...
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Finding WordPress sites using my plugins
I've now developed two WordPress plugins and would like to see some sites that use it. I'm looking for a way to find sites that use a WordPress plugin I built.
However, the official guidelines, don't ...
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Plugins won't update when Wordpress says they're updated
In a Wordpress 3.5.1 network, I have six plugins which have updates available:
AddThis Follow Widget
AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget
AddThis Welcome Bar
Jetpack by WordPress.com
Visual Form ...
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What is the purpose of adding a .po file?
I added the below code to the function.php of a .po file and finished localization and edited the webconfig.php to add Arabic language but nothing happened. I want to know what should happen. Will the ...
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How can I reduce the amount of files loaded/included per plugin?
I have a Wordpress site that uses several plugins, namely 8. Most of these plugins include a lot of their own JS and CSS files, some even include so much as 3 separate CSS files. One can imagine that ...
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How can I attach images to a post from the media library?
Currently, there is no way to do this in a vanilla Wordpress install. Is there a way to retroactively attach an image from the Library to a post?
EDIT: Ah, let me clarify — when editing a post, and ...
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difference between add_options and register_setting
I am confused. Want to save data for my plugin. There are people who use add_options and there are others who use register_settings. My question is What is difference between add_options and ...
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Does wordpress have a post hit counter?
Is there anyway to show in a template for a post, how many times that post has been viewed, like hits without some sort of plugin? It seems wordpress would have this built in, but I am unable to find ...
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Update plugin from personal API
I'm developing a wordpress plugin at the moment which I do not want in the Wordpress plugin repository. However I still want to be able to push updates to my costumers from my own API repository.
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What are good plugins for beginners?
I want this question to turn into a more of a wiki because people often have this question.
What do you think are some useful and must-have plugins for a wordpress-based site?
Currently, I'm in the ...
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Survey plugin recommendations
What is a good plugin to do surveys for wordpress.
I can think of creating a custom contact form 7 - but i was having problem in the formatting and separating it from the body of the post visually.
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Is there a hook attached to general settings save?
I want to add a field to the general settings page, but I can not save the field because I can't find a hook for the pages save.
Any ideas?
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Restricting a Plugin to Only Load its CSS and JS on Selected Pages?
I'd like to cause a plugin to restrict its loading of CSS stylesheets and JavaScript JS files to only those pages for which they are needed.
An example for my question is the plugin Contact Form 7 ...
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Pass PHP variable to javascript
Is there any possibility to pass some PHP variables in javascript so I can use them later?
Only in single.php.
I heard about wp_enqueue_scripts but with that it is neccesary to declare a path to a JS ...
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How to solve a conflict between a plugin and a theme?
I'm using Photospace as a gallery slider within my hatch pro wp theme (you can check here).
The default transition effect between slides is a crossover effect (like this example), but the effect in ...
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How to restrict Front-End Editor on a page?
I am working on a site where the user can do everything from the front end. I am using the plugin from scribu called front-end editor. My problem, is that I have a dashboard page with all the options ...
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“Donate to this plugin” for WordPress.org Plugin Authors
I recently saw a link titled "Donate to this plugin >" link on a WordPress theme (and then I did!). How is this added to a plugin's page on wordpress.org?
Here's a screenshot:
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Adding Custom Fields for Img in Posts
I'm wondering how I'd be able to set a custom field within my Wordpress posts. I want to have a field available to add an image via the Post dashboard - that has a max width & max height set, I ...
