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How to automate WordPress database migration?
So I have several WordPress sites that I do work on locally, and then migrate changes to a test.sitename.com (to check for issues), then to sitename.com.
I want to write automation script myself, I ...
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Statically populate menu with childs
My problem is very simple. I want to add all pages and subpages of a given parent page inside a menu.
The problem is that the few plugins I found for this purpose, JC's Submenu or Gecka Submenu, do it ...
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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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Advice on automated testing
Hey I need to automate e2e tests for a site in wordpress I normally just use WDIO, Cucumber and Selenium for my web tests but this isn't working for this site the content is always in flux customers ...
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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 script to install a WordPress webapp on Nginx
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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Auto create a new templated page on user registration
Legends and Legendettes
I'm needing to create a page that uses the client username as a slug. Is there a plugin or some coding (I am completely green so talk English please) that will create a new ...
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How can I automate a document upload-->process via python --> email report [duplicate]
I am a scientific programmer and am helping out a friend with his business. Currently, he is having users email him csv files, he does loads of manual analysis and analytics, then puts together all ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Auto draft posts when scheduled date is reached
I have a plugin that allows all scheduled posts to be visible immediately...
I'm looking for a function that will automatically set a post's status to "draft" when it reaches it's scheduled date and ...
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Feed format for woocommerce [closed]
I am using woocommerece for my website. I get product feed from different suppliers in excel format with different information in different columns (no consistency in product attributes such as price, ...
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Auto-Tagging a Custom Post Type
I have a custom post type called 'community' and I am trying to automatically generate the tag 'community' upon publishing anything from that custom post type. In layman's terms, a kind of 'if this is ...
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What is the Best way to post each pictures uploaded separately and automatically?
I have a lot of pictures which I should upload them to my website everyday (about 100 pictures per day). These pictures are uploaded to the website with a Title and a specified little Description. ...
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XMLRPC and Underscored custom fields
I was creating my application to automate all of my blogs from my desktop.
Target, I'll post blog. That's all.
I used XMLRPC service, as you know "xmlrpc.php".
I built many of parts, near to done... ...
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When a user registers, create a page from an existing template with their username as the page name
I am wondering if something like this is possible? If so, where would I start! I'm certainly not looking for someone to explain 100% fully and give free code examples etc, only a nudge in the right ...
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How to enable to the user send content and save as draft entry?
I was wondering if is there a way to enable to the user to send content using a form, to select different options like categories, attach images and so on, and after submit the content save as a draft ...
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Posts to expire (deleted) after a date
I am creating a coupon site from scratch. I have reviewed many code examples on the Internet, but have not found anything that will work, as my requirements are little different.
I need help in ...
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What is the best way to hook a rewrite function for certain php code when plugins are updated?
I often times make a bunch of customizations on plugins I install from the WP repository. Typically the reason I find myself preforming these edits is to fix, rewrite or delete certain functions a ...
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Automatic publishing after some fixed intervals?
Is it possible to publish "pending posts" automatically after some interval around the clock, using WP Cron or something else?
I receive over 2000 posts daily, submitted by visitors, and they all go ...
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Automatically add a character to field in edit post page
Currently I am facing an issue involving making two plugins work well together. I am using a form plugin called formidable to create a new location custom post (custom post was made from a plugin ...
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How can I send edits to my blog programmaticly?
I have started a very simple wordpress blog for a hockey pool I run. The site is located at: http://thekeeperpool.wordpress.com/
I manage the actual stats counting and player movement using a local ...
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How to load script-related styles automatically?
Scenario: It is common that a JS dependency is bundled with a style file to work properly (just think about your favorite slideshow jQuery plugin). AFAIK, in this situation, the script and style have ...
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Automatically create child pages when saving a (parent) page
I have a bit of a tricky one...
I have a hierarchical Custom Post Type ('shows') that represents events. Is it possible for the user to create a new page (ie show), save the page and for Wordpress to ...
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How to add/assign or change featured image in post programmatically?
I have written a plugin that (besides other functionality) makes posts from existing content. For each post I have one picture - how to make them featured programmatically?
I do the:
$id = ...
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Assign post format to categories
I'm looking for a way to allow Wordpress (via a plugin?) to assign a specific post format to categories. (I can assign categories via a third party like IFTTT)
Then all my posts in a certain category ...
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Automatic linking terms
I am trying to link words that show up anywhere on the website to go to a pre-defined internal url.
In the post editor the author is able to choose a product from a drop-down menu using custom ...
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Alternating CSS classes for dynamic content [closed]
This is for a gallery that's populated automatically, images are pulled in from child pages. Layout is: 2 images in a row and they must be left- and right-aligned respectively.
I can't figure out a ...
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Multisite/network--automatic self-registration, blog setup
I am creating a WordPress Network multisite blog in a university environment. It's set up in subdirectory mode, so that each new blog appears as a subdirectory off a common domain name.
The Network ...
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How to automate setup of theme, pages, widgets, etc for a new site in multi-site?
I have a large MultiSite network, and each page is designed a bit differently. I'm looking to write some custom code to automate the setup of a new blog as much as I can.
Things I'm looking to do ...
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Automatically determine minimum WordPress version required for a plugin?
When developing a plugin, is there a way to automatically determine the minimum version of WordPress that's required to run it? I want to make sure that the Requires header is accurate, but manually ...
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Disable a Custom Taxonomies default save mechanism
I have a custom taxonomy X.
I've specified that the UI should be shown (for debugging purposes), however the UI is now interfering with my automation. I have code that automatically mirrors terms ...
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Automating deprecated call checks?
I've recently started revamping and re-releasing some abandoned (yet important) WordPress plugins. As I walk through the code patching other bugs, my IDE highlights deprecated function calls for me, ...
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Have users created automatically when a network site is created
Trying to figure out how to have users created automatically when a network site is created.
So currently when a new user registers, their account is created and their network site is created. That ...
