Questions about wordpress.org and its interactions with APIs, the theme and plugin repositories, Trac, Codex, project development teams, and similar topics. Do not use this tag just to mark a self-hosted installation.

learn more… | top users | synonyms

0
votes
2answers
79 views

Does having two installations of Wordpress negatively affect SEO?

I found a similar thread Here but it didn't seem to answer what I needed. Basically, I'm running a core wordpress install on " www.domain.com " One of the pages on that site needs to run on a ...
1
vote
1answer
279 views

Overiding functions.php with child-theme

I've been searching for a proper solution to override functions and hooks in my parent theme's functions.php. My parent theme has: define('TS_INC', TEMPLATEPATH .'/inc'); require_once( TS_INC ...
0
votes
1answer
50 views

Is it possible to get rid of admin new updates notifications?

I am doing projects for clients and sometimes an update messes a lot. So, can we leave error messages and get rid of new updates notifications in wordpress admin side? Thanks!
1
vote
2answers
270 views

Character Limit w/ Excerpt removes Images Why?

So I limited the amount of characters per post via the_excerpt('50') but it removes the image that I added to my post. How can I bring that image back so it shows up above the post then limits the ...
1
vote
1answer
229 views

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 ...
1
vote
1answer
255 views

Author Specific URL's in WordPress

In continuation of this thread Mapping multiple URLs to same page in WordPress is there any other way except redirect similar pattern URLs to same page. Our goal is to provide our guest and other ...
0
votes
1answer
159 views

Custom Queries - Child Categories not showing up

What I'm Doing I have a cities category and normal categories. Right now I have them filtering by category, then when the user clicks a city it will filter by category AND city query_posts(array( ...
0
votes
2answers
61 views

Minimal WordPress Functionality on Existing Website

I have a client that wants the ability to remove or add a special offer from the front page of her website. I thought of creating a custom loop using a featured image etc, which would display the ...
0
votes
1answer
197 views

add image caption

I would like to add caption to a image I just uploaded through a from. So I have the attachment id and the caption text in a variable. I found wp_update_attachment_metadata in wordpress codex .. but ...
0
votes
1answer
92 views

How to send home page of wordpress website as a newsletter to subscribers?

How to send home page of wordpress website as a newsletter to subscribers? Is it possible? I want to send some part of home page as a newsletter on weekly basis
2
votes
1answer
1k views

how to add a .php file to wordpress

I have a php file in my server (say www.example.com/up/up.php). If i access that file through the url, my site says no page found. but i want to call that php file using url parameter. I want to call ...
2
votes
1answer
1k views

Edit Comments Form in TwentyEleven

Is there a way I can edit / change the layout of the comments form (leave a reply form) in the TwentyEleven theme? I want to put the textarea on top and I can change the styles via css but physically ...
0
votes
1answer
73 views

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected

I get this error when I enter data in my form Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in \functions.php on line 77 return '<span ...
0
votes
2answers
399 views

Differentiate Between Parent & Child Categories

So I'm working with a non-wordpress theme called "Misty" and it uses this code to pull categories: <li class="sidebox"> <h3><?php _e('Categories','ml'); ?></h3> <ul ...
0
votes
1answer
54 views

Creating an RSS feed with all of the prior month's posts

How can I create an RSS feed that will display all posts from the prior month. So on any day in December, the feed will show all posts from November and so on. Thanks.
0
votes
1answer
80 views

Keeping LaTeX contents in line with non-latex text

I am using LaTex from the JetPack plugin, which is similar but not identical to TeX for maths, for my WordPress blog where I post course work. How do I get the generated formulae to centre on the line ...
-1
votes
1answer
538 views

Changing color of specific tab of top menu !

I am messed up with a problem and still i am unable to find it's solution. I am trying to change color of only 1 tab in whole navigation menu ! I mean if my navigation bar include 5 tabs and i want ...
0
votes
1answer
669 views

Custom Post Type Query W/Category Dropdown

I'm having a bit of trouble getting a custom post type query working coming from two drop downs. Let me show you what I'm using: The Form: <?php require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . ...
-1
votes
1answer
122 views

which table updated after logout?

I am working on wordpress in which on clicking logout button user will be logout using <?php wp_logout(); ?> function when I followed some guidelines on wordpress site I came to know that it ...
0
votes
3answers
63 views

Moving wordpress to an unknown outlet

I have some wordpress websites on one server that I want to download. The problem is I don't know what url or what server I am moving it to. The problem is I do want the original to work. Suggestions ...
1
vote
2answers
183 views

Can I develop a social networking Site using WordPress and its Plugins?

I am completly new to WordPress. I have a requirment where I need to develop a site where people will form communities and will blog around. They will make friends and send friend request. So its much ...
0
votes
1answer
185 views

Custom Page Template and Category Exclusion

I have a blog (bernsteinbear.com) that uses the TwentyEleven theme. I'm trying to make a custom page template for the front page (a blog page) that gets all the posts except in the "Comic" category. I ...
0
votes
1answer
63 views

getPost() method and Pagination

i am creating a related post article feature for my wordpress enabled site.being new to php and wordpress facing some issue. though i can user wordpress build in feature to show related post of author ...
1
vote
3answers
290 views

will post_id ever change? Can I safely use post_id for custom queries?

What are the best practices for using post_id? Can I use this safely in my templates to call specific posts, or will these post_id's ever change? The reason I ask is that randomly today the ...
3
votes
4answers
2k views

Tinymce/Wordpress is removing all line-breaks?

In my wordpress theme, I have a custom options panel with textareas that utilize the tinymce script included with wordpress. This was working fine until I upgraded to the latest version of wordpress ...
2
votes
2answers
84 views

Change Wordpress.org hosted plugin readme.txt

is it possible to change the readme.txt of a plugin that is hosted at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/plugin-name without tagging a new version? I would like wordpress.org to show the new ...
0
votes
1answer
124 views

HTML link within my plugin settings page

My plugin has a settings page. It's working fine. Now, i want to put a html link within this page. This link will go to another settings page. How could I do that? Thanks.
-1
votes
2answers
3k views

Blog has an infinite redirect loop

Why is http://compassionpit.com/blog/ going through an infinite redirect loop? Here's my nginx conf file. The site is run by a nodejs server on port 8000 and Apache serves up the blog (wordpress) and ...
1
vote
1answer
259 views

How to display a category list in a mediawiki like way?

I would like to reproduce on Wordpress the same behaviour of mediawiki when it comes to display the posts of a certain category (with an alphabetical order, in columns and using first letters in bold ...
2
votes
2answers
78 views

Licensing: Can I include SWFs without source in a plugin released on wordpress.org?

Suppose I create a WP plugin that includes a couple of SWFs that I create (not third-party SWFs). According to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/ , if I want to publish that plugin on ...
1
vote
2answers
144 views

Any way to check the integrity of a Wordpress site?

is there any way to check if the installation has gone well or if there is something wrong with the backend of WP? I've gone into a few errors and I've tried to reinstall Wordpress within the ...
0
votes
1answer
64 views

Permalinks Won't Work

Permanents won't work for some reason. I click on the radio button for option 3, and click save, but it reverts back to option 1. What's going on? (It shouldn't be a FTP problem - it has localhost ...
0
votes
1answer
103 views

Is it posibble to have alink to display all posts on index.php?

I have restricted to display 20 posts on index.php, but also I want to add a link to display all posts without restrictions. Any advices on how to achieve this? Thanks!
3
votes
2answers
1k views

What's the difference between get_the_time and get_the_date?

Both function returns date and time. What's the difference between them? Do you have any example? Thanks.
0
votes
1answer
515 views

Admin bar stats widget plugin image broken

Using Wordpress Stats on my site. On the admin bar when logged in and viewing the site, the spark image with daily stats is broken. It's not a critical issue, just an annoyance. Any ideas? Edit: ...
4
votes
1answer
2k views

Making my plugin multi-site compatible

I want my plugin to be installed on each blog and create database tables per blog. I have this code: register_activation_hook( __FILE__, 'install1' ); function install1() { global $wpdb; if ...
0
votes
1answer
353 views

looking for wordpress action hook for new pending post?

Im looking for an action hook to link my function to when a completely new post is created with a status of pending? I'm aware of 'save_post' and others but want to target specifically when a post ...
0
votes
2answers
179 views

WordPress : displaying last comments on home page

Is there a way to select and display the last X approved comments regardless of which posts or categories they belong to ? I just want to show on my home page the last comments added on my site, but ...
0
votes
1answer
79 views

Are there any action like 'init_frontend'

I've found init and init_admin. Are there any action that executes just in the frontend? Thanks.
8
votes
2answers
199 views

Which of my blog and personal data is being transfered when Wordpress automatically checks for updates?

I'm generally concerned about privacy and I've heard that with each contact to the Wordpress API for update checks and similar a lot of my blogs data is being transfered. To get a better impression, ...
0
votes
1answer
112 views

problem redirecting users to page on login

I'm trying to redirect certain users to a part of my site but I cannot seem to make it work... can you take a look at this and tell me what I'm doing wrong? if ( ! function_exists( ...
0
votes
2answers
188 views

Are get_bloginfo queries cached to start, or should they be cached?

I was just wondering if calling get_bloginfo too many times was going to harm performance in a theme and if the data should just be put into its own var?
0
votes
1answer
75 views

How can I make my website with wordpress having on-spot editing feature as compared to concrete5 CMS?

I hope you were easily able to understand my situation through the question. 1.Do we have any theme or plugin for on-spot editing the post by people or by me after the blog post is posted? 2.If ...
1
vote
1answer
710 views

how do I exclude child categories from a wp_query?

I'm doing a category-based search that looks like this: $feed = WP_Query("category_name=noticias&showposts=3&order=DESC"); The problem is this also brings me posts from the child ...
0
votes
1answer
121 views

how to have custom post template including custom write panels for the users to post

I would like to have a separate custom page where the logged in users can post their content. Add post title, add content, add check boxes, image/file uploads, Is there any way to do so?
0
votes
2answers
77 views

Some questions about WPMU

I just activated wordpress multisite in my site. I have few questions. 1) WPMU and wordpress multisite both are same? 2) I created a network in my site. I created like site1.mydomain.com, ...
0
votes
1answer
32 views

What is the general cut-off date for reviewed themes in the WordPress.org repository?

I know that the theme review team has been active for about one year now. Thanks to their hard work and diligence, the themes in the repo are much better now than ever before. However, I have noticed ...
1
vote
2answers
291 views

Install widget on plugin activation

Anyone know any resources to help me install my widget when my plugin is activated?
1
vote
2answers
1k views

query_posts: how to show all 'meta_value' containing a specific word?

How could you display all the post in a loop with a (custom) meta_value containing a word/phrase? for exemple get al the post where meta contains 'test'. ...
0
votes
3answers
608 views

What happened to WP No Category Base?

What happened to the plugin in Wordpress plugin repository? The link doesn't work: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-no-category-base/ and search for this plugin doesn't list it. Yes, I know I ...