Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress. This tag should not be used to mark requests for plugin recommendations, which are off-topic per the FAQ.
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Best Collection of Code for your functions.php file [closed]
Please vote on the question and any answers you find useful by clicking on the UP arrow on the left hand side of the question or answer.
As with many others who are now viewing this post, I have been ...
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Tips for using WordPress as a CMS? [closed]
I want to use WordPress as a CMS for a reasonably basic site rather than a blog. I have several pages and at the moment, I don't intend to have a "news" page.
While there are ways to make this work, ...
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Adding a Taxonomy Filter to Admin List for a Custom Post Type?
I have created a Custom Post Type called 'listing' and added a Custom Taxonomy called 'businesses'. I would like to add a dropdown list of Businesses to the admin list for the Listings.
Here is what ...
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Updates for a private plugin?
If I write a private plugin, is there any way to use the WordPress auto-update mechanism to update it?
I want to encapsulate the functionality, but it's specific to my own 5 or so blogs, so it's not ...
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WPSE Plugin Repository: The plugins that came out of WP-Answers
Link your WPSE-Plugins
If you answered a question and made a plugin out of your code, than this is your place to share it.
The Idea:
An old comment from @MikeSchinkel during the beta phase where he ...
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Do deactivated plugins slow down a WordPress site?
Most people are aware that minimizing the number of plugins used is a good way to help keep a WordPress site running fast. However, does that general rule include deactivated plugins?
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How do you debug plugins?
I am pretty new to plugin authoring and was having a hard time debuging.
I used lots of echo and it is sloppy and ugly.
I am sure there is a better way to do this, maybe an IDE with a debugger that ...
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What's the preferred method of writing AJAX-enabled plugins?
I'm wondering what the preferred method is for dealing with AJAX calls. Should one use the same plugin php file to process the POST or a separate one? Which is cleaner or safer?
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Uninstall, Activate, Deactivate a plugin: typical features & how-to
I'm making a wordpress plugin. What are typical things I should include in the uninstall feature?
For example, should I delete any tables I created in the install function?
Do I clean up my option ...
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Best way to initiate a class in a WP plugin?
I've created a plugin, and of course being me, I wanted to go with a nice OO approach. Now what I've been doing is to create this class and then just below create an instance of this class:
class ...
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Is there a plugin that provides a stackoverflow style editor for wordpress?
I am tired of the tinymce editor in wordpress and I really love the stackoverflow editor which allows me to write with markdown grammar. So I want to write blog with markdown in wordpress.
Now I am ...
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What Plugins Demonstrate Great WP Plugin Development?
I'm going to be tackling my first plugin soon and I'm looking for plugins which you feel are of very high quality, under the hood. Stuff I can use as an example while I design the framework for my ...
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How to implement a customizable free OpenID authentication?
OpenID is a standard commonly used nowadays. I am trying to implement OpenID on my blog, but I have many difficulties.
I tried OpenID plugin but it seems to be incompatible with Wordpress 3.0.
I ...
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What Features would you Most Like to See Added to WordPress? [closed]
I'm creating a community wiki to ask the following question:
What features would you most like to see added to WordPress?
This Question Implies a Few Things:
It should surface the features ...
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Add multiple plugin directories
The task
You can register add additional Themes directories using register_theme_directory() for your WP installation. Sadly core doesn't deliver with the same functionality for plugins. We already ...
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Who are the most trusted plugin developers? [closed]
Note: Please vote on the question, and any answers you find useful by clicking on the UP arrow on the left hand side of the question or answer.
There are so many plugins out there. Whose plugins can ...
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Should all plugins be encapsulated in a Class?
When developing a plugin should the functions be grouped together into a Class to avoid namespace conflicts?
Does using classes create performance overheads for PHP?
If there is a performance hit, ...
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How to enable suggested edits?
I like the idea of enabling any user of my website to suggest edits to a page. Much like the edit system on Stack Exchange but different in that anyone should be able to edit, not just registered ...
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'Global' settings page for multisite plugin
I'm working on a plugin that will be installed in a multisite instance.
How do I create a single settings page that is visible at the "Network admin" level only - most of the guides i've seen relate ...
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What Are Security Best Practices for WordPress Plugins and Themes? [closed]
As suggested in this question, I am adding this topic as a new question, for community discussion/voting regarding best-practices for Plugin/Theme security.
Here is the starting checklist, based on ...
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How to structure a plugin
This isn't a question about how to build a WordPress plugin. Rather, what, if any, guides could be applied to how to put together the file architecture of any plugin.
Some other programming languages ...
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Where can I sell WordPress themes and plugins? [closed]
I've been building some WordPress themes and plugins. What are the online marketplaces I can sell them?
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How can I stop WordPress from prompting me to enter FTP information when doing updates?
How can I stop WordPress from prompting me to enter FTP information when doing updates?
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Add Google Analytics manually, or use a plug-in?
Our situation is that we only dabble with Wordpress, however one of our Wordpress customers wishes to add Google Analytics to his site.
I'm assuming we can do this manually, relatively easily. And ...
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Show a different number of posts per page depending on context (e.g., homepage, search, archive)
In the Reading Settings, there is place to set the number of posts shown that affects the number of posts shown in all contexts. I'd like to show instead a certain number of posts on the homepage, and ...
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Create custom page templates with plugins?
Is it possible to make custom page templates available from a plugin?
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If I rename a plugin (in its main php file) do I still get update notifications?
I've recently been forced to edit the core files of a plugin. I've updated the title of said plugin to indicate that its been edited.
My question is will the plugin still get update notifications? If ...
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Implementing a CrunchBase.com Clone using WordPress?
I wish to create something like CrunchBase.com
with WordPress.org (So to have one website that is a "database", and another one, which is a blog, that connects to it).
Is it possible? and how?
...
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What are the common security flaws I need to look for? [closed]
As a wannabe WP plugin developper, what are the main security flaws/holes I should look for?
I'm about to create a new plugin with a configuration panel (ie input fields and stuff). What should I be ...
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Open Source Forum for wordpress similar to stackexchange or stackoverflow [closed]
I have to add forum feature in my wordpress blog.I see bbpress but would like to add forum similar to stackexchange or stackoverflow.
Please let me know.
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Using WordPress as a CMS: Developer preferences for custom vs existing plugins
I was just wanting to gauge some general feedback on how developers use WordPress as a CMS. I've started having a few client requests for websites built on WordPress. Most of the time, they're pretty ...
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How to maintain W3C standards compliance of a theme
When I wrote a theme, I made sure it was compliant with XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.1. Then I added plugins and the theme is no longer compliant with XHTMl 1.1. Then I used Google API font in my CSS and it is ...
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How Can I Securely Implement a Password-less Login Feature?
Just posted a new plugin: No More Passwords
I currently have it tagged beta because logging into a platform is a sensitive issue and I don't want to release something that may have security holes. So ...
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How to include code only on specific pages?
I'm learning about plugins and shortcodes. I noticed that when I activate my plugin its code gets loaded on all of my pages-- even pages that don't have my shortcode. (I don't mean content vs. admin ...
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Between functions.php, widgets and plugins, which is loaded first?
Customer asks if a specific carousel plugin he uses can be widgetized. That means i should create a widget inside functions.php which calls the plugin's function. That means that the plugin's code has ...
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Can a developer adopt a plugin marked as “not updated in over 2 years”?
I have come across a few WordPress plugins on http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ with this warning:
This plugin hasn't been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be
maintained or supported ...
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Is it bad practice to create own table for a plugin?
If I want to save settings for my plugin then it is pretty easy and straight forward.
Now I would like to save to the database a bit more.
A file name, and 3 other values that only apply to that ...
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Is there a WordPress plugin that registers a plugin file as a custom page template?
I need to create a plugin that makes custom page templates available in wp-admin. I'm wondering if someone has tackled this already, as it seems like a pretty typical process?
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Conditionally enqueue a widget's script/stylesheet in HEAD (only when present on page!)
I've been trying to load scripts and styles for a WordPress widget with the following conditions...
The scripts MUST load in the HEAD (else they break).
The scripts must ONLY load when the widget ...
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How can I make add_image_size() crop from the top?
I have a series of posts, all with featured images, but I need to be able to customise the crop top right corner. In this instance, I need them to be cropped from top right, but it would be useful to ...
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Is there a StackExchange-like voting plugin for Wordpress?
The Vote it up plugin is nice but once you vote something you can't undo.
Is there a voting plugin which is similar to the one you find here at StackExchange?
(You can undo your vote and vote ...
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Delete Wordpress plugin Repository
I wanted to create a WP plugin. So I requested and my request was approved by Wordpress.org But I don't want to develop that plugin anymore. How can I delete the repository forever or request its ...
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Does the number of downloads displayed for a plug-in in the WordPress.org plug-in directory include automatic updates?
I'm wondering how the number of downloads displayed in the plugin-directory correlates to the number of actual websites using the plug-in.
I realise some people will download and never install and ...
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How to add field for new site-wide option on Network Settings screen?
I'm working on a plugin, and part of it involves setting an option value that applies to all sites in a WordPress network. I know about the add_site_option and get_site_option functions that let you ...
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How to get a variable number of posts per post type on the main loop?
I'm looking for a way to balance the content at the homepage of my blog:
the blog has a few post types like Poscasts, Videos and Blog and I'd like to have let's say 10 Posts on the homepage, but I'd ...
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best way to overide plugin CSS?
currently, I use CSS specificity to override plugin styles. I prefer this to editing the plugin as it makes for less headaches when you update.
What would be nice is if my style sheet loaded after ...
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Passing a parameter to filter and action functions
Is a way to pass my own parameters to the function in add_filter or add_action.
For example take a look in the following code:
function my_content($content, $my_param)
{
do something...
using ...
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How can I delete orphan keys in Wordpress database tables?
In particular in table wp_options. After almost 2 years of blog production it seems increased a lot, and I don't know how many crap is in there.
Do you know a plugin that works with Wordpress 3.0 or ...
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How can I use WordPress functions in my stylesheet?
I have my style.php file looking like this.
<?php header('Content-Type: text/css');?>
#div{
background:<?php echo get_option('bgcolor');?>;
}
This does not work, but when I do ...
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Plugin Development: WPMU or WP?
I was thinking, what kind of issues might I face if I port a plugin from WPMU to WP or vice versa.
Say I developed a plugin from scratch and wanted that plugin to be compatible with both, should I ...
