Questions tagged [automation]
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PHP variable not regenerating when publishing multiple posts at the same time
Context: I am building an automated system which will grab record from a database and immediately publish them en masse as a CPT. When they are being published, I have a function in the functions.php ...
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Setting a default text for excerpts of a particular category
I am extremely new to WordPress Development and PHP in general, and was wondering if there is a way to create a function that would automatically add some pre-determined text to the excerpt of posts ...
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Gravity forms to local excel doc
Website uses gravity forms, we have a local excel document we use for business processes. We are aiming to either use an integration or an automatic regular download to bring form submissions into the ...
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Auto-login from Wordpress Page to CRM Tools
I was asked to build an "intranet" with WordPress. Users should have different dashboards here with links for tools. These include tools such as Hubspot, Salesforce, but also simple links to ...
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Realtime database update from 3rd party apps (notion, airtable, sheet, etc)
Can I achieve Realtime database update from spreadsheet?
My requirements:
I have many posts with custom fields that have certain values. I have all these values stored on a spreadsheet (GoogleSheets, ...
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How can I automatically display the section link on my one-page Elementor website?
My website is using long one-page posts for each issue of our magazine and these are navigated through anchor links. I add the anchor links through Elementor. I want to be able to display the section ...
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function that gathers all gallery shortcodes
So basically I have a gallery plugin that creates galleries with a specific shortcode. So every time I create I gallery, I first need to create the gallery, and then create a post for it, and the ...
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Send a review notification email to admin when a post is 12 months old
I'd like to send an automated review email to the site admin whenever a post has been published for more than 12 months.
I've tried using the following code but can't seem to get it to work, or ...
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Is it possible to populate my wordpress site with many random posts for testing purposes?
I have just deployed the Wordpress application on my Kubernetes cluster following the instructions from https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/stateful-application/mysql-wordpress-persistent-volume/
Now ...
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Wordpress Body Content How to add current page title automatically in different places?
I'm new to wordpress with very limited/low knowledge in coding,
I'm trying to build a faq section for different pages, where I need to insert the page title, post date, author etc. in multiple places. ...
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Adding Tracking Details for Advanced Shipment Tracking Plugin From Order Notes
I have a woocomerce site which is connected to UPS e-fulfillment and when they they ship out an order, the tracking number ends up getting updated to the order notes like in this example:
To put ...
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How do I automatically generate pages from a database?
I have a spreadsheet of information I'd like to publish online. I'm trying to find the easiest and best-looking way of doing this. The page will be informational and not intended to generate revenue ...
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Automatically create tags and merge with categories
In the following code I can set tags automatically and add to a pre-existing category:
<?php function update_post_terms( $post_id ) {
if ( $parent = wp_is_post_revision( $post_id ) )
$...
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Automatically delete post in a single category when a new one is created
Is it possible to delete/move to trash a post in a single category each time that a new post in the same category is created? I mean, I need to always keep just one post (the most recent) visible in ...
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How to auto empty comment trash after X days
I know how to programmatically delete comments that are X days old but they then go to the trash. How do I empty the comment trash every X days?
function ...
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Activate and deactivate plugin automatically
How I can Activate and deactivate plugin automatically?
For example,
I want the "Yoast Seo" plugin to be active only on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and the other days deactivated.
How can I do ...
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How can I post exact same post but with a few things changed? (with some sort of Automation)
I wanna duplicate some of my posts but want to change a few variables. For example, I would just like to make some variable in my posts that will be changed every time I give inputs. These can be ...
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allow multisite in the installation process
So I want basically to automate wordpress installation for multisite, I looked a bit and found that I can do that using the drop-in plugin wp-content/install.php, It obviously works for normal ...
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Auomated crash recovery?
Is there, or do you know of any in development, a solution that will provide push-button recovery when a plugin update causes a crash???
Many systems now provide push-button rollback to a backup if ...
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WP Cli - post add meta in xargs after wp post generate - add multiple fields
This command will generate posts and create a field with key "bar" and value "foo"
wp post generate --format=ids --count=10 | xargs -d ' ' -I % wp post meta add % foo bar
This does not seem to work:
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Checkboxes to automatically create pages when I activate a theme
So, I want to create pages automatically on theme activation. This seems kinda easy with wp_insert_post().
The problem is: I need to select only certain pages to be created. Is there a way to do this?...
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Automate dir and DB stack creation with WP-CLI
This is how I create a database stack and a directory for WordPress in my Ubuntu environment:
cat <<-DBSTACK | mysql -u root -p"${dbrootp}"
CREATE USER "${domain}"@"localhost" IDENTIFIED BY ...
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Shortest possible shell script to install WordPress on Nginx server?
The following script is the one I use on Ubuntu-Nginx environments, to get a WordPress webapp up and running.
I run it with a domain as an argument:
bash ~/nwsm.sh example.com
My question is what ...
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Automating WP application directory creation (domain name passed as a variable argument)
This is the farthest I've get so far automating Dir creation for WordPress. How I could I further automate this in the Linux command line?
#!/bin/sh
domain="$1"
echo "Please save your DB user ...
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Making sure updates didn't break anything
I am tasked with updating plugins and core on a number of blogs that I am completely unfamiliar with (nothing weird about them, but I haven't worked with them before today).
What I need to do is ...
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Scheduled emails to include only posts and calendar events for the upcoming week
Please be kind, I'm new to WordPress and PHP. :)
I volunteer with a local animal rescue group (non-profit). We are migrating our web site to be WordPress. On our current site, we can go in and create ...
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Is there a solution to auto-post data to a WP post from a database
I'm looking to add posts to my WP website from a (self managed) database source - could be form or excel/CSV data, either internally (in WP itself) or external, i.e. from an excel sheet in Dropbox.
I ...
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Automatically Add Page Links to Nav Menu
I wrote this code in my functions file to automatically add page links to the nav menu if a plugin is activated. It works perfectly on my test server but pages don't load any content below the header ...
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automation of plugin installations
My business is building and establishing websites for all kinds of businesses and companies.
So, every time I start a new site for a client of mine, I have to install the same plugins over and over ...
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Automatically generator a Wordpress installation on my subdomain
i am currently working on a project which i hope will result in a e-commerce platform as Shopify. The reason im building this project, are so my customers are able to pay monthly for day Wordpress ...
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Automate configuration after new/hosted installation
Lets say I launch a new WordPress site at a hosted provider such as WPEngine. As I start to configure my site (install a template, install plugins, create layout and content for my pages, etc.), is ...
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Automating Page Creation
I have a huge website, with thousands of pages. It's a reference site, with a page for every country, each U.S. state, every species of mammal, etc.
I've tried WordPress on some smaller sites and ...
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How to populate a Mailchimp newsletter with latest events from Wordpress plugin EventOn?
Once a month I send a newsletter with upcoming events. I also publish all the event on a wordpress site with EventOn. I was wondering if there is a way to import the latest events in a mailchimp ...
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Adding a variable to a meta field in the backend?
I have a plugin which lets me create retailers. These retailers all have a meta field called commission - the value of which I might need to change down the road. Most of them are just set to 15 at ...
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Automatically convert standard posts with custom fields to custom post types
I am just beginning a page, and for my current purposes it seems that the only extra things I need are a couple of extra fields for posts of a certain category. Because I only need to add a little ...
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On install, automatically create page and set it as front page
On install, I want a page automatically created and being set as front page. I able to create the page but unable to set it as front page.
Below is WP Install Defaults codes which automatically ...
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Best way to schedule daily change in CSS parameter
I have a few CSS values on my WP site that I would like to change once a day on a daily basis using a random variable and I am trying to determine the most elegant way of doing this. For the sake of ...
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database - multiple wordpress installations using same database - can they share plugin settings?
I have multiple Wordpress installations sharing a database. They are also sharing the same wp-content folder. Is it possible for the sites to also share the same plugin options? I found a method for ...
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How to auto create site after user sign up on multisite(network)
I'm wondering if there is a way that we could create a site while user is registering in a sign up form.
So the idea is I want to create a form with for exemple title, username, email, password and ...
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Automate specific steps on WordPress install
When I set up a WordPress project, I complete the following steps before I get to work:
Unpack WordPress
Delete pre-installed themes and copy over _s theme.
Set up repo via BitBucket and add to ...
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How to incorporate Documentation into wordpress?
I am building a site, and I would like to have my documentation built into the site.
For example if I use JSDoc to generate documentation for javascript, I get the auto generated files, I can just ...
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Generate WP-CLI @alias for each site on multisite
I have a few multisites, each with several sites, that I want to auto-generate @aliases for. Is there way to sync those sites as aliases in my site list?
I'd like to be able to target a single site ...
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Fastest way (least amount of steps) to locally import a remote database using WP-CLI
I'd like to automate the task of importing a remote database using the WP-CLI.
The current process is to ssh to the server, and run an export to file using WP-CLI, copy the file to a local directory ...
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How to Submit Post Via cURL & PHP
Thanks for reading.
I'm trying to submit a post via PHP. I'm filling in a large number of posts from a good amount of data I've scraped so I need this to be automated. I don't have the time (or ...
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How to create a WP Cron hooks based on schedules from Advanced cron manager plugin?
I need to run the following script once per 24 hours:
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http:domain.com/wp-cron.php?import_key=Iq_GCn7v0&import_id=36&action=trigger
the following one to run after the above, once or twice ...
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Force update all posts in custom post type, no content changes
I have imported data from a custom post type that has location data for a map plugin (Progress Map). I have about 500+ posts each with different location data. For some reason the location data isn't ...
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Altered media sizes (in dash), not updating to existing images/posts
(I have searched but not found a satisfying answer – bear with me).
I have a client that has a website with 1500 posts. Each post
consists of ONE image, no text.
I have changed to the Oria theme (...
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redirects for removed/deleted woocommerce products
I need to remove some discontinued products from a woocommerce site. I'm just wondering how to go about automating this. I haven't figured out whether to throw a 301, 404 or 410 error, but either way, ...
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Macros for Wordpress, creating subdomains out of registrations for current domain
I have a website: atmydevice.com and I want people to register on the website. That's easy. But I want the registration to create an automatic subdomain like ac.atmydevice.com with a different theme ...
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Delete expired posts after a number of days after they expired
I use the below code to delete custom posts with status 'expired' (thanks to Jamie Keefer). Posts are set as 'expired' by a 3rd party plugin. Users have only a frontend access to their posts (adverts)....
