Posts are the core of WordPress. They store content, are categorized, and are expansible with meta. Posts are grouped by post type, and within their post type by taxonomy (though a taxonomy can span more than one post type).
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Wordpress Posts Out Of Order after 3.1 Update
The first posts I wrote are now showing on the homepage. After Googling, the problem is because I am using query_posts to exclude a certain category on the main loop.
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Problem with quotes
I have a strange problem with the latest version of Wordpress: Some writers, when they write a story, you see the quote character ', replaced with /, something that does not happen to me. Is there any ...
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Adjust the order for returned posts
I have written a neat responsive slider for my Wordpress featured articles (feel free to use it):
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$responsive = 'on' != get_option('henrik_responsive_layout') ? false : true;
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featuring old articles without messing up with the archive
This is all about featuring content in WP.
Say, you got 1000's of posts that you accumulated over the years and each has their own original ( and true ) post dates.
And now you want to feature them ...
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Calling Permalinks With PHP
I'm developing a theme which supports WordPress' post formats. As a result I am using a big if statement, which can be found below.
I would like to link my post titles to the posts while ...
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How do I check if I linked to a post before I delete it?
If I want to "safely" delete a post. I want to make sure that no link exists (within my blog) to "to-be-deleted" post. How do I do that?
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GET the excerpt by ID
Why is it that one cannot get the excerpt by ID like with the title and most other elements.
eg. get_the_excerpt(ID). I know how to use it with the $post->post_excerpt function but that does not ...
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Find most recent authors
What I'm looking to do it get the 16 latest posts from 16 different authors. In other words there would be the 16 latest posts, but no one single author would have more that 1 post on the page.
The ...
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Show a different number of posts per page depending on context (e.g., homepage, search, archive)
In the Reading Settings, there is place to set the number of posts shown that affects the number of posts shown in all contexts. I'd like to show instead a certain number of posts on the homepage, and ...
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How to Display Network Post Count?
Is it possible to display the total post count for all blogs in a Network? get_blog_count and get_user_count do so for blogs and users, but I can't find any methods to do so for post count.
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Wordpress Queue like Tumblr?
Is there a way to give Wordpress the queue functionality that Tumblr has? Tumblr's queue, for those who don't know, is a way to space posts out without assigning specific post dates. For example, a ...
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using wp_update_post on save_post
im trying to update a posts date (-1 year), when you hit update. but it causes an infinite loop.
any other ways of doing this?
thanks.
function change_year($post_id, $post){
if ( ...
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Setting a custom sub-path for blog without using pages?
Warning: fairly pedantic request ahead.
I have a design that makes use of posts (I.e., the blog) and a custom post type called "howto". The site front page ("/") has a template that displays the ...
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How to force one column layout on custom post type edit page?
I've created a plugin using custom post types and I need to force the default two column post page to a single column. At the same time, the Publish metabox must move to the bottom. I need to do this ...
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How to limit user to publish post per day and per role?
I would like to know is there any way/Plugin to limit the user published post (in a given time span) by his role?
Like this:
Role A -> 1 post per day and 30 post total.
Role B -> 10 post per ...
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How to add a custom button to the tinyMCE toolbar?
I want to add a custom button to the tinyMCE toolbar in the 'Add New Post' screen which when clicked, will insert text into the new post.
I have tried using this code (from ...
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Add link on the top menu of the post table?
Is there any way to add links on the top, as pictured below?
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Front end post editing using a form
I have a custom-post type with the standard meta boxes and some custom fields. How could I edit a post through a form in the frontend?
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How to make comments work for a post loaded per Ajax?
I am currently loading a single post using ajax. While the post loading works ok, I cannot get the comments to load. Here is my code:
My javascript to load the post:
<script>
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Add a new post status in the post progression
I run a site with about 30 authors and 3 editors. Authors submit posts for review, and editors schedule or publish them. It would be useful to have another post status of "Editing" between Pending ...
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Different post sort order within different categories
I need to give each post a unique post order for multiple Categories (per post) it is in. I can imagine a solution using custom fields whereby for each Category there is a corresponding custom field ...
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How to add a quicklink to the Posts Admin Published|Scheduled|Trash menu
Here might be an interesting idea: is it possible to add a "quicklink" to the quick links at the top of the Post Admin page (e.g. above the Bulk Actions dropdown, where it says "All | Published | ...
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Prevent Authors from viewing each others Posts
I am setting up a site where there will be multiple users as Author, the owner doesn't want the authors to be able to view each others posts, since there are some meta fields with information he'd ...
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Create posts on user registration
How can I create let say 3 posts after the user finish the registration ?
The ideal outcome would be to create 3 posts using the user as the author of the posts and with some pre-defined values. ...
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Publish pending article from front end with a button?
Is it possible to take the blue publish button in back end of the wordpress and place it in the frontend near the post in my index.php. I need a way to publish the pending article without going to ...
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Facebook sharing link is not showing a thumbnail of the images within the post?
Usually facebook share gets an image from the site to post and shows it as thumbnails.
If you press the share this on facebook link in my test page it doesn't.
This is my test site: ...
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Pre-fill fields with content from outside when creating a new post
I'd like to find a way to fill some of the fields from the /wp-admin/post-new.php page from an external source.
It works for the title: loading /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_title=title1 fills the ...
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Plugin for changing a post's category based on it's post date?
Is there a plugin for Wordpress that will change a post's category based on how long that post has existed?
I have seen other Wordpress plugins that use a library called "simple pie" to manage a ...
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Restrict access to the Trash folder in Posts
I want to restrict users from deleting posts permanently. How do I restrict access to the Trash folder in Posts? This is the only page were the users can delete their posts permanently.
The only ...
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Show Custom Taxonomy Categories, Listing of Posts, and Single Post via AJAX
I need to be able to do the following:
List all terms in a custom taxonomy (categories for custom post type)
When a user clicks on a category, a listing of all posts in that category appears
When a ...
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Delete posts from a post type automatically via Cron
how can I use Cron to delete posts of a certain post type once they reach a certain limit, like keep maximum 50 posts?
The reason is that these posts are being imported automatically periodically, so ...
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Frontend Post Form Validation
OK, there have been several posts on here about frontend posting forms. I've read them all, which got me to where I am. Now every form I come across has some form of validation which seems to check ...
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Post from front-end only by logged in users, form posts as “posted by: <logged-in user's username>”
I've handrolled a form for posting from the front-end, with some custom functions that I needed. However, I've made the form only accessible when a user is logged in, and I'd like to have the articles ...
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order posts by date like craigslist
the image is worth a thousand words. take a look at it.
you know how craigslist has posts organized by date ..ex
Tue 3
post links for tuesday
Wed 4
post links for wed
Thurs 5
post links for ...
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How to add category to: 'wp-admin/post-new.php'?
I want to have a link to create a new post that sets the category also.
I have tried wp-admin/post-new.php?post_category=12 and wp-admin/post-new.php?cat=12, but neither worked. I also tried using ...
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Sort posts by popularity/page views
How can I sort posts by popularity or page views in my template file?
I guess I need to count page views first, is there any good plugin to integrate with to sort posts by views or what is the best ...
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Add a checkbox to post screen that adds a class to the title
I'm needing some posts to have different title colors than others, and I figured this would be most conveniently accomplished by some sort of check box on the post creation/edit screen. How would I go ...
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Disallow Same Post Title
I am looking for some code where member can't use the same title as another post already having or used.
e.g if there is a post with title "Amazing Australia Tour" than it should not allow to use the ...
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In what sequence are the hooks fired when a post is “published”?
I would be grateful if someone could point out a link. I understand this may have a very lengthy answer but I searched and couldn't find any resource.
Alternatively, it would also be nice if someone ...
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How to add option box in “Edit Post” plugin API?
This might be kind of simple, but I couldn't find a way to do so in the WP docs. My plugin currently uses custom fields for things I could just have radio buttons/check boxes for each post. How do I ...
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Display post number not post ID number
I am wanting to display the number order of a post. I tried using<?php the_ID(); ?> but this just displays the post ID and doesn't seem to do go in sequential order due to post revisions and ...
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Want to have the Post editor remembering the last editing position
As you probably know the WordPress theme editor remembers its last editing position, but I want my post editor to do the same (it jumps to the top if you save a post/page).... Any tips/hacks how to ...
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blog posts sorting doesnt work while using get_query_var
I'm trying to show the latest posts using the get_query_var function. The function filters the posts according to their category.
When I'm displaying the posts on the page they appear unsorted ...
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Add code just after Post content
I am in a bit of dilemma here so bare with me. I want to add something like this code just after the content in a post:
<p>Please let me know what you think by <a href="#comment">leaving ...
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which action to hook to in order to perform post-publish action
I have some functionality I've written in order to post the title and link for the post to twitter whenever a post is published.
I'm wondering which wp function to hook this to? save_post has no real ...
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Add a special filter link to All Posts in admin
I have a featured posts slider on my site's front page. It displays n posts (5 right now) from the category featured. If I have 5 posts in that category, and publish a 6th, the oldest of the 6 doesn't ...
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Custom permalink structure only for default posts
Does anybody know how to modify the url struct only for the single post page?
When I go to a post page, the url should look like: example.com/xxx/my-post. All other urls (with the exception of the ...
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Change Posts per page count
In the wordpress settings => Reading => Blog pages show at most [input field] posts
I have it set to 3 posts at the moment.
On my index, date archives, tag archives, category archives, search ...
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How to display related posts from same category?
Is it possible to display related posts from same category as the current post?
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Post & edit a post from front end along with upload, dropdown, and other inputs
I am following this tutorial to post from front end. I am able to post the title, content, category, tags, I would like to know is it possible to add more fields like in the image below. How to ...
