Tom Auger

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WordPress developer. Always learning. Hoping to contribute.

	1,494 reputation	bio	website	tomauger.com	visits	member for	2 years, 2 months
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63 Questions

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Run an action only when Widget actually instantiated (not just registered)

widgets

may 16 at 16:20 Tom Auger 1,494

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How to obfuscate theme directory URLs

may 16 at 3:54 toscho♦ 44.9k

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184

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Using the on-board image editor for featured images: edits are not being used

images post-thumbnails

apr 10 at 23:56 Jeremy Clarke 769

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After Installing APC Object Cache Backend transients stopped working

cache transient apc

feb 20 at 15:09 Seth Gottlieb 1

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add_role() run only once?

user-roles actions add-cap

feb 20 at 11:57 Andrelost 1

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Display navigation menu item conditionally based on user capabilities

feb 2 at 21:23 somatic 1,788

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Why does save_post action fire when creating a new post?

actions save-post

jan 10 at 0:39 Misha Moroshko 117

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Is there a WP Way of getting a filehandle?

filesystem

nov 30 at 22:34 toscho♦ 44.9k

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195

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How do you allow plugins to be updated using the GUI without breaking your subversion repository?

plugins svn

nov 27 at 21:19 Otto 13.7k

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How should I intercept the main query and inject custom join / order by / group by criteria

query-posts hooks loop sql

nov 18 at 12:02 Community♦ 1

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remove_action or remove_filter with external classes?

actions filters

nov 6 at 7:55 herewithme 11

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Opinions and recommendations on the best barebones base theme [closed]

themes templates child-theme best-practices theme-recommendation

sep 22 at 13:03 Chris_O 12.5k

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Elegant way to include only published posts with get_objects_in_term()?

posts taxonomy publish get-post

sep 15 at 20:22 chrisguitarguy 9,761

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Custom Post Formats

post-formats

aug 13 at 9:17 SEOPeter 11

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How effective are cacheing plugins for dynamic pages?

cache memory optimization server-load

aug 4 at 4:47 Wyck 10.7k

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What would cause the 'wp' action to fire twice per page (but only once per post) in Firefox only?

actions

jul 6 at 23:51 David Saba 11

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406

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Better way to enforce category hierarchy in post_categories_metabox?

taxonomy filters metabox actions hierarchical

jul 6 at 0:40 Community♦ 1

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411

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How to override pluggable function in theme?

theme-development pluggable

jun 20 '12 at 20:19 Andrew Nacin 971

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Custom metabox field help tips popups

jun 12 '12 at 3:34 Community♦ 1

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Can I attach a document (eg: PDF) but have a JPEG as a thumbnail?

attachments uploads thumbnails

jun 8 '12 at 21:45 Community♦ 1

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Is Timthumb still broken? What security measures should be taken?

plugins security timthumb

jun 5 '12 at 11:49 toscho♦ 44.9k

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862

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Is there a maximum slug length?

slug

may 31 '12 at 15:37 syslogic 165

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288

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Public posts - preventing duplicate form submissions

nonce

may 4 '12 at 7:04 Dan 1

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407

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Why does get_term() require taxonomy? Are term_ids not unique?

taxonomy database core

apr 24 '12 at 20:39 Tom Auger 1,494

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179

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WordPress Admin back-end - advanced options page?

admin options

apr 24 '12 at 18:07 kaiser 21k

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Debugging / displaying errors in WP_Widget->form()

widgets errors

apr 16 '12 at 5:07 Community♦ 1

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Apache/Linux configuration changes to make automatic upgrade more straightforward

server apache

mar 10 '12 at 13:50 Community♦ 1

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325

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What's $object->filter for?

posts core

mar 6 '12 at 23:39 toscho♦ 44.9k

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768

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Change sign-on URLs for security purposes

feb 22 '12 at 20:14 Tom Auger 1,494

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Leverage WP_Rewrite to pre-validate links / detect invalid links

rewrite-rules

jan 26 '12 at 16:53 Milo 24.3k