Questions tagged [posts]
Posts are the core of WordPress. They store content, are categorized, and are expansible with meta. Posts are grouped by post type, and within their post type by taxonomy (though a taxonomy can span more than one post type).
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Remove slug from custom post type post URLs
It seems that all web resources based on the subject of removing a custom post type slug ie
yourdomain.com/CPT-SLUG/post-name
are now very outdated solutions often referencing pre WP version 3.5 ...
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Get page ID of page that is set as the posts page
In WordPress settings you can set a page as the Posts Page. This can be found:
WP-Admin->Settings->Reading Settings->Front page displays
How do I retrieve the page ID that is set in this ...
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How to limit the number of posts that WP_Query gets?
I have been researching on Google and WPSE and the only thing I see repeatedly is to use showposts, that is deprecated.
I am familiar with WP_Query, and I thought that if I set posts_per_page to my ...
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Get Posts Under Custom Taxonomy
I am not getting the posts under custom taxonomy(fabric_building_types). I am getting cat_id and cat->name also but not able to get the posts.
$args = array(
'type' => '...
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Stop Wordpress Wrapping Images In A "P" Tag
I have searched high and low for a simple solution to this, but to no avail. Wordpress keeps on wrapping my images in p tags and because of the eccentric nature of the layout for a site I am working ...
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Stop WordPress automatically adding <br> tags to post content
Is there a way to stop WordPress from automatically inserting <br> tags when adding returns in the WordPress text editor.
I would like for it to behave more like a code editor where I can ...
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GET the excerpt by ID
Why is it that one cannot get the excerpt by ID like with the title and most other elements.
eg. get_the_excerpt(ID). I know how to use it with the $post->post_excerpt function but that does not ...
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When is the 'post_content_filtered' column in database cleared by WordPress?
Some WordPress plugins (although very few) use the post_content_filtered column in database to save some data related to a post.
For example, Markdown on Save stores the markdown version of a post ...
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Turn a URL into an Attachment / Post ID
Is there any way I can take a URL of an image and find the attachment or post id of that image in the database?
Here is the situation:
I'm in a loop going over all the 'img' tags that are surrounded ...
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How to update custom fields using the wp_insert_post() function?
The WordPress function is used for submitting data programatically. Standard fields to submit to incude the content, excerpt, title, date and many more.
What there is no documentation for is how to ...
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Hook for post and page load
I need to run a function when a particular post or page is loaded. Is there any hook that lets me check whether a post is being displayed during page load ?
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How to add an admin notice upon post save/update
I have a post type the uses post_save to take the address from the post-meta and retrieve the lat/lng coordinates from the Google API. I need a way of notifying the user if there was an issue with ...
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Determine if page is the Posts Page
On the Reading Settings page you can set a "Front Page" and a "Posts Page". You can check whether the current page is_front_page();
Is there a similar function for the "Posts Page". I have noticed ...
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How to get 'post_content' without stripping <p> tags?
I'm trying to retrieve the post content of a specific post:
$post = get_post(/* id */);
$content = $post->post_content;
However, this retrieves the content with no line-breaks and omits all <p&...
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Manually set global $post vars with an ID, in order to use template tags
I have a function retrieving ID's of posts by very specific means.
I need to be able to set the global $post in order to use functions like the_content(), which does not allow an ID as a parameter.
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Get the Current Page Number
In a situation where one has 20 posts per page. I would like to get the current page number in order to make some nice page links at the bottom. How do you get the current page. I tried this
<?...
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Print Current Post Index number within Loop
I'm working on WordPress where I have following code to get posts within loop.
<?php
$posts = $woo_options['woo_latest_entries'];
query_posts('post_type=...
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Should we trust the post globals?
@toscho left a comment to this answer which had me thinking again. How much trust should we have in the global scope, specially regarding the post globals like $post?
So what? The global variable ...
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Show a different number of posts per page depending on context (e.g., homepage, search, archive)
In the Reading Settings, there is place to set the number of posts shown that affects the number of posts shown in all contexts. I'd like to show instead a certain number of posts on the homepage, and ...
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Optimize post insert and delete for bulk operations?
Not much noticeable when working with individual posts, but when you create or delete multiple thousands in bulk and by code - process is quite slow.
Are there any good tweaks to apply and corners to ...
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WP_Query Pagination on single-custom.php
What I am looking to do:
Setup WP_Query pagination in a single-custom-post-type.php template file
What I have done
1) Created a post type called "authors". Each post within that post type is an ...
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How do you add thumbnail support for custom post types?
the thumbnail support is working for post, but I have another post type called product and it is not working for this. I am trying: add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails', array( 'post', 'product' ) );
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Change Posts per page count
In the wordpress settings => Reading => Blog pages show at most [input field] posts
I have it set to 3 posts at the moment.
On my index, date archives, tag archives, category archives, search ...
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Restrict custom post type to only site administrator role
How can I remove this custom post type from being shown in the dashboard for non admin users?
/* Add Websites Custom Post Type */
add_action( 'init', 'create_website_type' );
function ...
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How to display related posts from same category?
Is it possible to display related posts from same category as the current post?
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Add extra parameters after permalink?
How can I add extra parameters after a permalink, specifically if I'm using a custom post type?
For example, let's say http://mysite/album/record-name was the permalink. How can I make http://mysite/...
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How to mark every 3rd post
I'm working on a WordPress site for my band and I'd like to mark every 3rd post on our blog page to have a special class applied to it, anybody have any pointers on how to achieve this? Any help is ...
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Can posts have parents?
Are posts supposed to have parents? If so, what would that mean for a post to have a parent?
Also, if there are some constraints to posts having parents, then where is that enforced? Not in the DB as ...
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Keep featured content post in homepage with original order
I'm searching how to keep the featured post in my blog homepage without excluding it from query post. My blog uses the Twenty Fourteen theme. I found this solution.
Open the featured-content.php ...
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Is there a action hook for the "Empty Trash" button?
I would like to run a function when the user clicks the "Empty Trash" button for posts. Something like:
add_action('empty_trash','myFunction');
function myFunction(){
// My code
}
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How to end the excerpt with a sentence rather than a word?
Here is the excerpt of the post on my home page. I want to end the excerpt with a sentence. In this case it is ' opportunities. '. I know how to modify the length but it won't do what i want.
Here is ...
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How to get posts published between a date and today?
Is it a way to get posts published between a date and today with query_posts() ?
Example : All posts published since 2012-04-01
Thanks
EDIT :
How to add the filter date on this Query Posts ?
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How do I check if I linked to a post before I delete it?
If I want to "safely" delete a post. I want to make sure that no link exists (within my blog) to "to-be-deleted" post. How do I do that?
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How to check if post meta key exists or not in wordpress database
I want to check if post meta key exists or not, out side of the loop. Is there any WordPress function to check if post meta key exist or not in WordPress database. I have to check this outside the ...
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How to detect single.php (but not single-portfolio.php)?
When I'm using is_single(); in my <head> section to add some style to website navigation it executes correctly on blog posts but it also executes on single "portfolio" post type posts (so single-...
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How to change the case of all post titles to "Title Case"
I am helping my father with his WordPress website.
It has over 1,700 posts with TITLES IN UPPERCASE.
We'd like to change these to "Title Case" in the database (possibly using this PHP script).
The ...
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How to retrieve text only from wp_content() not from wp_excerpt()?
I'm currently developing a website with WordPress 3.5 and I need to retrieve Post Text (Only text, not include images) at Archive Page. I can retrieve it with wp_excerpt() method without any problems. ...
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Adding Page Attributes Metabox and Page Templates to the Posts Edit Page?
(Moderators note: Title was originally "How can I add the "Page Attributes" and/or "Page Attributes > Template" selector to POSTS editor")
WP currently only allows the assignment of a "template" to ...
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Appending content with <!--nextpage--> broken in 4.4
Update 2016-01-21
All current testing on my end is being done on fresh installs of 4.4.1 with the following settings:
Plain permalinks
Twentysixteen Theme
No plugins activated
If the post only has 1 ...
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How to show related posts by category
In my gallery site i want to show other pictures under the current picture (in single post). I seen more codes but it i asks to specify the category, but i dont want want specify the category manually ...
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Apply the_title() filter in post & page title, but not in menu title
I use the following code to change the title of WordPress posts and pages. But it changes nav menu item titles too, which I want to avoid.
I want to change the title of posts and pages in: home page, ...
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Change permalinks for posts but not for custom post types
Currently my permalink structure for posts is
domain.com/post-title
I'm using a static front page and a "blog" page for posts. I'd like to to change the permalink structure for posts, tags and ...
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ZIP up all images displayed in a [gallery] and offer as download link
I would like to offer my visitors the option to download the entire photo gallery (displayed on dedicated [gallery] pages) as a ZIP file displayed at the bottom of each gallery page. - The full-sized ...
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Keyboard shortcut for updating a page or post?
What is the keyboard shortcut key for updating a page or post? It could save me a lot of time as rolling down a page draft is time consuming.
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How to remove a column from the Posts page
In a previous question I asked how to add a column to the Posts page in the Administration section, and got a working answer. But now I need to know how to delete an existing column (e.g. the Date ...
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Rewriting post slug before post save
I need to retrieve an ACF field within the post, and change the slug(permalink) of the post before saving it to database. What is the approach to achieve that? I need the slug to be changed every ...
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Get the ID of the latest post
Been all over looking for the best way to do this.
I want to get the ID of the latest post of a certain post_type.
How can I do this in the cheapest way possible (by cheapest I mean using the least ...
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Submit post and upload image from front-end
I am trying to do something similar to the above question. I am trying to make users post and upload images from front-end. I have already done the post form and its working.
I just followed and ...
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Access post from post id in URL
I'm doing unit tests for my plugin, and in my unit test, I check some basic things such as posting a custom post type. My script can create new post, and I can retrieve the ID of the posted item (I'm ...
