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8 votes
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Pass media upload value to input field

I have created a meta-box that provides a upload function via the default media uploader from WordPress. This works fine as long as I have one upload option. But guess what? I want another one. If I ...
8 votes
1 answer
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static variable loop not working in Wordpress

I have a function in my wordpress theme that deletes the first embedded video in a video post. See code below. This is in the functions.php file. /* - function that hides first video in post content -...
7 votes
1 answer
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Registering menu with 'Automatically add new top-level pages to this menu' selected

Is it possible to register a menu inside of a theme functions file and have 'Automatically add new top-level pages to this menu' pre-selected? I can't find any info about this in the ...
7 votes
2 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 ...
6 votes
0 answers
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Gutenberg Blocks doesn't render correctly when using do_blocks

I'm trying to render a post_content with blocks using the do_blocks function, that takes a gutenberg content, parses every block, and returns an HTML string. The problem is that some blocks aren't ...
6 votes
2 answers
661 views

Link to Author archive from Navigation Menus in dashboard?

I'd like to display a grid of authors on my site showing the name of the author and their avatar. The tricky part is, I'd like to be able to control this from the Menus page in the dashboard so I have ...
6 votes
1 answer
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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, ...
5 votes
0 answers
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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 ...
5 votes
3 answers
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Find out what is using PHP sessions in WordPress

Is there a way to find out what is using PHP sessions or spawning PHP processes? My Wordpress site gets heavy traffic (3.5 million hits per month). We discovered recently that we had permissions set ...
5 votes
1 answer
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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 ...
5 votes
1 answer
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WSOD but WP_DEBUG not giving any errors

I am running Wordpress on a WAMP stack and I'm trying to debug a WSOD error, which I think is a PHP error, as I have tried disabling all my plugins and themes and they don't seem to be the problem. I'...
5 votes
3 answers
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Making plugin unique to not conflict with plugins with the same name

I have plugin that has the same name as other plugin uploaded to wordpress.org How can i make it unique so it doesn't share "View Detais" link and auto-update with other plugin uploaded to wordpress....
5 votes
1 answer
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Cropping, Re-sizing and Saving images from one folder to another folder in wordpress

I'm adding an upgrade for the WordPress plugin which I have developed ages ago. This plugin is just a product catalog, so just show products and their images. Products can have more than one images. ...
4 votes
0 answers
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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 ...
4 votes
1 answer
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WordPress “Link has expired” error on updating posts

I'm maintaining a WordPress site on GoDaddy for a client and they started to get the "this link has expired error" when they saved a post. It does not happen when I upload a file. However, I am ...

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