Unanswered Questions
5,097 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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 ...
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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 -...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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How to allow users login to WP from external domain and make REST requests
Basically what i want to do is:
Use Wordpress as a login system and data storage for web-application on another domain.
Make users able to register and perform REST calls from the application.
Let ...
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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'...
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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....
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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.
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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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AJAX handler throws 400 (Bad request) - why?
I am trying to apply a "Load more posts" function to a post loop, but I am dealing with a 400 Bad request, when admin-ajax.php is referred to.
The reference I used is this - https://rudrastyh.com/...
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Creating a post with the REST API, curl and oauth returning 401 error
I'm trying to create a WordPress post using the REST API, OAuth, and cURL. However, I'm running into some trouble.
I'm able to create a blank post (no title, slug, etc) using the following code:
$...
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load/require specific php files for specific pages/templates/post types
I have a plugin with multiple php files. I want to load some of them only when specific template files are loaded. I don't want to load everything.
Currently, I'm doing it with
add_action( 'wp', '...