Unanswered Questions
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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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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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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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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 ...
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Connect to live db whilst working locally
Please excuse my ignorance, as I'm entirely self taught (HTML, CSS, and some JS and PHP) as a hobby, and SSH is all fairly new to me.
I originally built a static website for my wife's childminding ...
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Insert custom data to custom table on wordpress database
i need some help here
i wanna create some form for user to subscribe our article and store the data to database. i have tried to search it on google, but nothing worked when i tried that. i know that ...
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Migrating October CMS to Wordpress
I've done a lot of research on this and cant figure out what option is the best and quickest to take.
We currently have our website on October CMS and are looking to move it over to Wordpress.
Has ...
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When using the block.getSaveElement hook can you output different markup based on whether or not you are in the edit view or the live page view?
I am trying to extend the core/image block to add an option for a deferred image. I want to replace the src attribute of the image with an empty string and add the url as a data attribute to be loaded ...
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Emojis getting converted to "?"
Emojis in posts and comments on a 500+ posts blog get converted automatically into single question marks in irregular and untraceable intervals.
The respective tables wp_comments and wp_posts are ...
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Is the usage of ON DELETE CASCADE wrong or not allowed on wordpress?
I have table with foreign key reference and i recently changed the create table query with ON DELETE CASCADE
$wpdb->query("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS $table_name2");
//CREATE TABLE ...
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How can I rewrite a plugin generated URL?
I'm using the wpForo plugin to create custom profile pages on the front end of my website.
The profile URLs generated by the wpForo plugin look like this:
example.com/community/profile/username/
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Change Theme from Plugin based on query_vars
I'm working from about 4 months on developing a Plugin.
This plugin make in a page an entire app, using the powerful of Wordpress.
So, I've decided to create a serires of rewrite rules using command ...
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Database with mixed collation (utf8mb4 & utf8_general_ci)
Each time I was uploading my WP install from offline to online, I was noticing strange characters in text and digging a bit I have discovered that wp-config.php on the online server was set to define('...
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Add custom field to category of custom post type
I want to add a custom field (for a icon) to categories of a custom post type.
I use the default category type and not a own create category taxonomy.
How can I add the custom field only to the ...