Are there any offline tools available for Wordpress theme development other than Dreamweaver extentions? I'm looking for something that renders a page in a Gecko (or related widget) window in response to my editing of the theme code so I don't need keep editing files on a web server. Any ideas? EDIT: Should have been more clear. I ha...
I was just reading how can you tell whether you're ready to start your own blog. The answers are so good and inspiring that I made rush to start my own blog using blogger and stopped right in my tracks. I looked on the menu bar as I was creating my first post, and duh, there's no nice "code sample" formatting option like the one on Sta...
What are the best resources for Wordpress theme-development? I am currently in the phase of starting my own blog, and don't want to use one of the many free themes. I already have a theme for my website, so I want to read about best-practices. Any advice on how to get started would be very welcome :) I have now created my theme (woh...
I've noticed that a few Wordpress blogs have query statistics present in their footer that simply state the number of queries and the total time required to process them for the particular page, reading something like: 23 queries. 0.448 seconds I was wondering how this is accomplished. Is it through the use of a particular Wordpre...
This is a very specific question regarding mysql as implemented in WordPress. I'm trying to develop a plugin which will show (select) posts that have specific 'tags' and belong to specific 'categories' (both multiple) I was told it's impossible because the way categories and tags are stored: wp_posts contains a lists of post, each po...
I may just be missing this functionality, but does anyone know if there is a widget available: I need to list the subject for all the entries that are associated with a given tag. For example: I have 5 articles tagged with "Tutorial", I'd like to see a list as follows: Tutorial 1 - Installing the app Tutorial 2 - Customizing Tutorial ...
On the other end of the spectrum I would be happy if I could install a Wiki and share the login credentials between WordPress and the Wiki. I hacked MediaWiki a while ago to share logins with another site (in Classic ASP) via session cookies and it was a pain to do and even worse to maintain. Ideally I would like to find a plug-in or s...
Can anybody recommend a reliable and decently documented code highlighter for WordPress 2.6.1. I have tried Code Snippet by Roman Roan and Developer Formatter by Gilberto Saraiva. But they don't seem to work as described in the documentation and are mangling the code snippets instead of prettifying them. ...
In the latest version of Wordpress it gives you the opportunity to view a preview of what your site would look like using a different heme. You basically just click on the theme and it takes over the screen and you have a chance to activate it or close it (and return to the previous screen, which is grayed out in the background). I have ...
I have my Wordpress install and MediaWiki sharing the same login information. Unfortunately users need to log into both separately, but at least they use the same credentials. What I would like to do is cause a successful log in on the Wordpress blog to also cause a log in for MediaWiki (ideally both directions). There are two ways ...
I am looking at using a custom template for a set of categories. Is it possible to use a category template (like category-4.php) on a parent category and have the children use that template as well? So based on the answer so far, is there a way to accomplish this? I want to add text and images to all categories within a parent category....
I'm trying to write a Wordpress plug-in that automatically posts a blog post at a certain time of day. For example, read a bunch of RSS feeds and post a daily digest of all new entries. There are plug-ins that do something similar to what I want, but many of them rely on a cron job for the automated scheduling. I'll do that if I have ...
I'm looking for a wordpress-like blog interface to put inside a Joomla hosted site. The admin interface of Joomla is quirky enough and hard enough to use that daily updates are infeasible. What I am looking for is an easy-to-use posting interface that supports multiple users with different accounts/names, a tagging scheme, and easy f...
I'm managing an instance of Wordpress where the URLs are in the following format: http://www.example.com/example-category/blog-post-permalink/ The blog author did an inconsistent job of adding categories to posts, so while some of them had legitimate categories in their URLS, at least half are "uncategorized". I can easily change Wor...
Note: This question has been deemed to be a duplicate of another: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/76996/what-is-the-best-css-grid-framework Please don't answer this one. Once I figure out how to move the answers over to that question, I will delete this one. Original question: I am evaluating CSS grids for multi-column web sit...
I've got a site that provides blog-friendly widgets via JavaScript. These work fine in most circumstances, including self-hosted Wordpress blogs. With blogs hosted at Wordpress.com, however, JavaScript isn't allowed in sidebar text modules. Has anyone seen a workaround for this limitation? ...
I've recently embarked upon the grand voyage of Wordpress theming and I've been reading through the Wordpress documentation for how to write a theme. One thing I came across here was that the style.css file must contain a specific header in order to be used by the Wordpress engine. They give a brief example but I haven't been able to t...
I've got a standard Rails app with Nginx and Mongrel running at http://mydomain. I need to run a Wordpress blog at http://mydomain.com/blog. My preference would be to host the blog in Apache running on either the same server or a separate box but I don't want the user to see a different server in the URL. Is that possible and if not, w...
I am setting up a few Wordpress blog sites. I have created a user in mysql that wordpress will use to access its database. The docs say to give this user all privileges on the database. Does it really need full privileges? I expect not, so does anyone know the min set of privileges that it really needs? ...
I'm currently using Wordpress to run my website. However, with each new release I become more concerned with software bloat and the convoluted table structures used to store my data. Maybe this is a fruitless pursuit. Features are always added to blogging software until it claims to be a CMS--and at that point your data is probably st...