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Wordpress: how to call a plugin function with an ajax call?

I'm writing a Wordpress MU plugin, it includes a link with each post and I want to use ajax to call one of the plugin functions when the user clicks on this link, and then dynamically update the link-text with output from that function. I'm stuck with the ajax query. I've got this complicated, clearly hack-ish, way to do it, but it is ...

Is there a WordPress plugin to selectively add posts to a newsletter?

I'm looking for a Wordpress newsletter plugin that allows the user to selectively add posts to the newsletter. Does such a plugin exist? Thanks! ...

Using - Instead of + in WordPress Search Permalink

Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+ /(#[^?& ]*)??([^& ]*&)?s=([^& ]+)[^ ]* HTTP/ RewriteRule ^$ http://wordpressblog.com/search/%3? [R=301,L] Currently I use the above .htaccess mod_rewrite rule to convert default WordPress search permalink: http://wordpressblog.com/?s=key+word into nice per...

Wordpress - use comment-system outside of pages and posts

Hi, so currently i'm using pods to create some individual pages for a log, filled with custom stuff. now i want to use the comments-system for each of this pages e.g.: mydomain.com/podpages/page1 mydomain.com/podpages/page2 mydomain.com/podpages/page3 this are not pages created with wordpress so simply adding <?php comments_template...

PHP & WP: Render Certain Markup Based on True False Condition

So, I'm working on a site where on the top of certain pages I'd like to display a static graphic and on some pages I would like to display an scrolling banner. So far I set up the condition as follows: <?php $regBanner = true; $regBannerURL = get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); //grabbing WP site URL ?> and in my markup:...

Should Wordpress be used to create a real estate listing site?

I have a real estate agent client who wants a website to list the properties he's selling. Although there are great 3rd party web apps out there that do this, he adamantly demands that I recreate a simple and custom website for him. I can do this quickly with a php framework like Code Igniter that comes with MVC, data access objects an...

DOM manipulation

Hello everyone, Im trying to use the DOM in PHP to do a pretty specific job and Ive got no luck so far, the objective is to take a string of HTML from a Wordpress blog post (from the DB, this is a wordpress plugin). And then out of that HTML replace <div id="do_not_edit">old content</div>" with <div id="do_not_edit">new content</div>" i...

Jquery Galleryview

I am working on a site that requires a jquery Galleryview now I have everything set up but my images are not showing. here is my header code: <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery.easing.1.3.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery.timer...

WordPress Custom Taxonomies

I have the following code to build a custom taxonomy for my portfolio: add_action( 'init', 'create_pc_db_taxonomies', 0 ); function create_pc_db_taxonomies() { register_taxonomy( 'type', 'post', array( 'hierarchical' => true, 'label' => 'Type', 'query_var' => true, 'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'type' ) ) ); } I have created a po...

What's the process for getting a plug in in wordpress.com?

What's the process for getting a plug in in wordpress.com? Do they pick plug ins from the same directory as a local Wordpress installation? Is there any further approval? We are considering making a Wordpress plug in but it only makes sense if people with blogs at wordpress.com can use it. ...

Wordpress throws 404 when I try to use a custom template page

I made a custom page template (for example, for About page), added Template Name inside the file and saved that. Then I tried to add a page in wp admin console using that template. It said that the page had been created successfully but when I try to open it in browser, it shows me 404 error. What did I do wrong? Thanks. I forgot to say...

Wordpress plugin $post

I have already get how to insert in the database. My only problem is to get the value of text box to insert in the database. Here is my code: function dbAdd() { global $wpdb; $new_title = $_POST['new_title']; $new_author = $_POST['new_author']; $new_url = $_POST['new_url']; if($wpdb->insert('wp_podcast_data', array( 'mp3_id'...

In Wordpress CMS, the controls under the WYSIWYG editor

I want to create a wordpress plugin where it adds additional controls underneath the WYSIWYG editor when adding pages/posts. But I don't know what keywords I'm supposed to google for to find relevant tutorials on how to do it. Can someone provide me with resources? ...

Different sidebars for each Wordpress page

I'm making a Wordpress 2.9.2 theme, and I'd like each page to have its own sidebar than can be edited as easily as the page's content. It would be cumbersome to make a different template file for each sidebar. It would also be weird to add a "custom field" containing all the sidebar text, since I wouldn't be able to use the Visual/HTML e...

WordPress: Giving a sticky post a specific fixed order

Is there a way to give a sticky post a specific order, rather than always displaying at the top of the list? For example, I want one sticky post to always display as the 5th post, and another to always display as the 8th. Thanks! ...

Visitors stats for Wordpress

What is the best way to provide information who is using visiting blogs on wordpress installation? Is there a plugin that provides this information? ...

jQuery slideToggle Hide / Show Issues

I am having a couple problems trying to manually insert some jQuery features into a wordpress theme. I have a lightbox wordpress plugin that is jQuery based that is working fine. So if I manually load the jQuery script into wordpress the functions seem to work but instead of say a slide being hidden it is revealed when it should still ...

Tweet blender takes a long time to show tweets

On my wordpress site I have tweet blender plugin to show twitter tweets. Everything is ok except for some resason it takes a long time to show the tweets on my site. When tweet it takes anything between 15-70 minutes to show on my site. Any idea why is that? Everything should setted right. ...

How much PHP do I need to know to design wordpress themes

So I want to start developing Wordpress themes, but I don't know PHP. How much knowledge should I have of PHP before I begin Wordpress development? Can anyone recommend any PHP books? ...

wordpress query custom fields and category

I have a query that creates a table view and then another that queries the view. The results are extremely slow. Here is the code: create or replace view $view_table_name as select * from wp_2_postmeta where post_id IN ( select ID FROM wp_2_posts wposts LEFT...