Unanswered Questions
3,010 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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why is translation not working on theme?
Background
I am using the theme Rookie from Sportpress.
I created a child theme.
Translation files are existing, especially german in my case.
Wordpress is set to german language.
The Problem
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How can I safely increase the character limit for post passwords?
When I want to protect a post on one of my blogs, I like to use a passphrase instead of a password (albeit purely for the sake of creativity, not security — they're stored plainly anyway). However, ...
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Exporting revisions
How do you export revisions for posts?
I cloned a site with it's complete Wordpress DB 4 months ago.
After the clone revisions have been made to the existing posts and new posts has been added to ...
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WP-CLI methods for get_current_blog_id, get_blog_details or $wpdb->prefix
I'm looking for some extra information about an mu site (--url) when attempting to export from a remote server to my local testing environment.
One requirement for migration is the existing blog_id ...
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Disable plugins on cron and ajax page
I want to disable few wordpress plugins on my cron and an ajax page. I have already tried option_active_plugins filter but it's not working. I have checked and found most of the people say that ...
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Looking for a way to load a function after customizer preview refresh complete
I need to load a callback function after a wp.customize.previewer.refresh(). I need this because I want to update a template position which is displayed with a custom hook in my theme and scroll the ...
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Is it safe to delete from db orphaned posts i.e. whose post_parent no longer exists?
I inherited a couple of WP + WooCommerce shops with roughly 30,000 products for sale each, and a wp_postmeta which is over a million lines. The former webmasters ran away.
In an effort to clean up old ...
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How can I list only sites that use a particular theme or plugin?
I need to search through dozens of WordPress multisite (network enabled) installs for sites that use a particular plugin.
How can I list only sites that use a particular theme or plugin, preferably ...
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Using Primary Color in Plugin Block
I'm developing a Gutenberg block, and I want the block to fit in as nicely as possible with the users site. So I'm trying to include as little styling of my own as possible, eg. allowing buttons to ...
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Gutenberg Blocks - Attributes from comment delimiter or from HTML?
I wrote a custom block and am trying to better understand the interplay of the JavaScript and PHP on both front and back end regarding blocks.
Say I have some block that I want rendered dynamically. ...
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Strange characters on wordpress site - Not UTF8 Issue
I've imported WordPress post data onto a new site and noticed I have strange characters showing on pages and Blog posts.
It usually shows where apostrophes should be.
I've searched multiple ...
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Importing users from one database to another and saving passwords
I have been trying to formulate a way to take a database SQL file of users from one database and add it to another WordPress database while saving the old WordPress site passwords on the new WordPress ...
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Wordpress generating 404 on .mp4 file in theme folder
I am trying to load a full width video on my homepage. My situation is almost exactly like:
Video Background - (php & css) - generating 404 error on page load - Wordpress Theme File Structure ...
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Prevent Deletion of Blogs
I'm trying to prevent the deletion of blogs in a WordPress Multisite installation. There is already a plugin that does this, but it uses wp_die() as the solution, which in my scenario does not work.
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Should I hint table index for search query on wp_post
I'm currently inspecting a WordPress setup with multiple custom post types that should be included into search results.
The database query for a search after the word Search looks like this:
SELECT ...