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.
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What is the Plural of WordPress?
I mean, for what I remember of my english classes it should be WordPress', or not?
Would this be a Meta Question?
Or a English Language & Usage one?
[update]
What I ended up writing (in an ...
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Performance of my permalink structure?
I have read the discussion on the performance of different permalinks on the wp hackers mailinglist, THIS forum and around Google.
I could however not really deduce if the permalink structure I have ...
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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, ...
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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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How to share WordPress core library
We have ten blogs running on a little EC2 instances, we want to see if all the blogs can share the same wordpress php code so
When I update the Wordpress, all the blogs get updated
Save memory in ...
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Wp get all the sub pages of the parent using wp query
Here is my code
$my_wp_query = new WP_Query();
$all_wp_pages = $my_wp_query->query(array('post_type' => 'page','post_parent'=>$parid,'orderby'=>'title','order'=>'ASC' ));
It displays ...
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WordPress.org API - Get plugin authors favorite plugins
There have been some recent additions to the WordPress.org plugin repository. Most notably the changes to the plugin page and the author profile page which now shows an authors favorite plugins.
I ...
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1answer
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Allowing Two Developers Access to a Plugin on the WordPress.org Plugin Repository?
The question is "How to Allow Two Developers Access to a Plugin on the
WordPress.org Plugin Repository?" This question was asked on the wp-hackers list and @EAMann answered it nicely and it's a great ...
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1answer
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How reduce wordpress login session timeout time?
I want to logout user autometically when user is idle for more than 10 minutes.That mean suppose user is logged in to a site and user didn't browse any pages for more than 10 mins.when he browse any ...
4
votes
1answer
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Check if post/page has gallery?
I'd like to run some code only if a gallery (inserted with the [gallery] shortcode) has been inserted into a post/page. I did the following:
gallery_shortcode($post->ID) ?
$gallery = 1 : ...
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1answer
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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 ...
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4answers
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Auto-post to multiple sites like Posterous?
I'd like to be able to autopost from my wordpress site (private wordpress.org, not on wordpress.com) to multiple sites with one plugin/hack from within wordpress. I'd like my posts to be able to be ...
4
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1answer
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Hide Twenty Eleven Theme From Themes Page
Is there a way to hide the Twenty Eleven theme from the "Themes" page in wordpress? I have 10 themes for clients to choose from and i don't want them to be able to see the Twenty Eleven theme or be ...
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2answers
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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.
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2answers
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Things to take care when moving from hosted wordpress to self-hosting
I have a hosted free wordpress blog. Now I am thinking to move that blog to self-hosting.
What I already have /know/tried:
1: I have a domain name purchased from a companyA.
2: I have hosting ...
3
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1answer
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Theme Review: post thumbnail, header image, content width
A followup to my previous question about my theme that was rejected for the WordPress.org theme directory:
RECOMMENDED: No reference to the_post_thumbnail() was found in the theme. It is ...
3
votes
1answer
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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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2answers
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Easy WordPress theme creation tutorial?
I've been looking for a truly simple wordpress theme creation tutorial and haven't been able to find one. I'm specifically looking for something with sample code, a basic introduction to the syntax, ...
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4answers
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Plugin directory “Last Updated” not changed after initial commit?
I released the first version of my Rewrite analyzer plugin with a commit on 2010-05-12. The WordPress.org plugin directory however still displays 2010-11-27 as the "Last Updated" date - this is the ...
3
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1answer
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Using preg_replace to clean widget output HTML
I am working on a wordpress site that uses a plugin / sidebar widget. The issue I am experiencing is that the widget generates HTML that is not valid, an example of this is below...
<p>
...
3
votes
4answers
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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
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1answer
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Ads Restricted on WordPress.com?
I am creating a WordPress blog myself - downloading it and installing it myself - as well as buying a domain name and hosting it using something like simplynames.com.
I read somewhere though that you ...
2
votes
1answer
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Can I change ownership of my plugin?
By adding a new committer and removing the original committer can I effectively change ownership of plugin? I would like to transfer a plugin to a new wordpress.org profile. I am the author.
2
votes
1answer
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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 ...
2
votes
2answers
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Buddypress - Send New User Activation Link to Admin
How do I send the new user activation link to my own email address instead of the user? Is there a simple function I can use to switch things out?
function ...
2
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1answer
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Previous & Next on Index Page broken
So the Next/Previuos on my index page is broken. It goes to page 2 but doesn't refresh the posts. It will work on my categories and it will work on my posts but it just won't work on the from page. ...
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2answers
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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 ...
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2answers
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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 ...
2
votes
1answer
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How to create a public profile for authors/contributors/users in WordPress
I would like to add a public profile page to the authors and others contributors in my site. where visitors can see their profile info.
I dont wanna use Buddypress, is it possible with WordPress ...
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votes
2answers
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Custom Author Fields + Existing Taxonomy - Integrating the Two Dynamically?
I am trying to integrate both the values from an existing custom taxonomy and custom author profile fields. I would like the values to be used as the options from which an author can select when ...
2
votes
1answer
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How could I execute my plugin just in frontend (not in backend)
I don't need my plugin running through wp-admin, including wp-login. How could I prevent it? is_admin works fine but i don't know how to ignore everything related to wp-admin (like wp-login.php).
...
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2answers
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what's meaning of it when submit a theme?
REQUIRED: Comments are displayed as "Off" while they aren't in wp-admin. Comment form is not displayed in these cases, while it is when a unit test post already has comments.
i have installed the ...
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WordPress.com vs WordPress.org
This question might seem a little silly but I was wondering what is the differences between WP.com and WP.org?
I know the main differences like you can't edit a them file without paying for it, you ...
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1answer
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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 ...
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1answer
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Reblog from Tumblr to Wordpress
If you have a Tumblr blog, you can 'reblog' from other Tumblr blogs, much like a trackback. I follow a couple of Tumblr blogs and sometimes want to quote from those websites. And, on these Tumblr ...
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3answers
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WP.org API: Accessing plugin downloads “Today” value?
I'm developing a plugin to display stats for downloads and various other information that developers might want to display on their sites about what they have developed.
I've found documentation on ...
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How do I add a new custom post format?
How do I add a new custom format while making a post in WordPress?
The default formats are standard, aside, image, gallery... I want to add a new format of 'xyz' name. How can I do it?
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2answers
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Install widget on plugin activation
Anyone know any resources to help me install my widget when my plugin is activated?
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2answers
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Creating external apps Wordpress / How they work
I was wondering how does external app works for wordpress.com or wordpress.org.
Directly connecting to the wordpress database seems a bad idea to me.
Questions
How can I create an app or get / ...
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1answer
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wordpress.org codebase
Is the codebase that runs wordpress.org publicly available? Specifically, I'm interested in the part that parses the plugins SVN repository to determine the current and past versions of plugins.
I ...
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1answer
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Changing wp-content to other name? Multisite set up
Is there an easy way to change the words wp-content that show in the source code to xyz-content without breaking my site?
I want to do it for branding purposes.
I tried:
Url rewriting but the ...
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2answers
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Prerequisites Skills to learn WordPress
I'm new to WordPress and I was going through skills sets on some of the projects that are to be built in WordPress. The prerequisties that were mentioned are listed as below:
HTML (obvious)
CSS ...
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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 ...
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2answers
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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'.
...
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1answer
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Questions about WordPress.org theme review
I have created one theme. The theme was denied today for the following reasons:
Theme Review:
Themes should be reviewed using define('WP_DEBUG', true); in wp-config.php
Themes should ...
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1answer
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website is still in localhost
I upload my website to the server and I changed the website url and home from localhost to mysite url. But it still is in localhost if I turned off wampserver it won't show the website. Just show me ...
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Can WordPress Plugin Directory Cache Delay the Upload of Images?
I've updated my plugin and I can see the updated text on the plugin page but I don't see any of the screenshots or header image. Is it possible that the cache will move the image files over later? Or ...
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CSS for Custom Post Types
How do I assign CSS to custom post types so it displays different from other Custom Post Types?
Example:
Custom Post Type 1:
Row of 4 Images
Custom Post Type 2:
a 2 column with an Image in the ...
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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 ...
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Editor doesn't load properly on my self-hosted WordPress 3.3
I have a self hosted WordPress install on my small VPS running WordPress 3.3.1 powered by nginx. As of the last 3.3 update, the editor fails to load properly - I cannot see the toolbar etc.
When ...
