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Wordpress podcasting with youtube video hosting

I'm trying to build a site based on Wordpress for a client. Eventually it will be used to publish videos which could be hosted locally, but to reduce costs it would be nicer if we could host all our videos on somewhere like YouTube or Vimeo. I'm looking for a plugin or a way of hacking an existing plugin in order to achieve this. The id...

<a href=...> syntax

I am trying to append a link to the text as shown below: <a href=\"http://blog.sysil.com/?page_id=5\"&gt;Contact Us</a> <br />Copyright © 2010 Stanley Lee. All Rights Reserved. However, it is not linking properly. Do you know what is causing the linking error? Thanks in advance for your help! ...

Embeding EasyVideoPlayer Code into Wordpress Theme - Video not showing

I'm attempting to place some embed code into a Premium WordPress Theme. NOTE: I'm not great when it comes to php. The embed code is produced by a video player called EasyVideoPlayer. (Basically it allows me to use Amazon S3 and gives me feedback on when people stop watching the video.) This is the embed code I have: <div id="evp-3f0...

Wordpress $wpdb->options

Where does $wpdb->options come from? I can't see $wpdb-options() function or $this->options so how is this achieved? ...

I have a 18MB MySQL table backup. How can I restore such a large SQL file?

I use a Wordpress plugin called 'Shopp'. It stores product images in the database rather than the filesystem as standard, I didn't think anything of this until now. I have to move server, and so I made a backup, but restoring the backup is proving a horrible task. I need to restore one table called wp_shopp_assets which is 18MB. Any ad...

Ordering Wordpress posts by most recently commented on

What's the query to list wordpress posts by most recent, with posts most recently commented on going to the top of the order? (Standard "message board" style) This post looked promising: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/698438/ordering-wordpress-posts-by-most-recent-comment But the query is clearly wrong. Can anyone help? ...

How to limit the wordpress tagcloud by date?

Hello, I've been searching for quite a while now to find a way to limit wordpress tags by date and order them by the amount of times they appeared in the selected timeframe. But I've been rather unsuccesful. What I'm trying to achieve is something like the trending topics on Twitter. But in this case, 'trending tags'. By default the ...

how do I programically create a category in WordPress if it doesn't exist already?

Using a built in wordpress function (if available) how do I create a new category in wordpress if it doesn't exist. I'm using wp_insert_post to insert posts, but I want to be able to do custom categories. Thanks -Brad ...

Where does WordPress store image meta data?

I've had a look in the database, but have not been able to find it. I'm talking about the caption, description etc. I'm doing a custom gallery and I need to access this information. So where does WordPress store this info? Thanks ...

Wordpress duplicate comment detection

Hi, Does anyone know how to disable duplicate comment detection in Wordpress (2.9.2)? I'm looking for a way to do this programatically without editing core files. We're adding comments via XMLRPC and the duplicate detection in wp-includes/comment.php (line 494) is causing issues during testing. Thanks! ...

Wordpress Admin Panel Code Input

I've got a wordpress admin panel for one of my themes and one of the boxes has an input for some code to drive google adsense. when I put the code into the box and call it with my php tags the code comes out like this: <script type="\&quot;text/javascript\&quot;"><!-- google_ad_client = \"pub-9295546347478163\"; /* Leaderboard 5...

Wordpress won't load in chrome but other browsers?

I have a website where chrome doesn't even load at all on wordpress. Any ever had this happen to them? site: egore.globerunnerseo.com ...

Jquery uploadify just one file upload and other upload stay at 100% ???

Hello,first,I work on localserver,xampp,jquery uploadify just upload one file,and other files are on 100%,and stay like that.When click on x button to stop I get this message : 'uncaught exception: Error in Actionscript' ?? Any idea?This is wordpress project. my code : uploadifyObj={ uploader : '<?php echo $full_path_...

Wordpress v2.9.2 fails to create databases on MAMP

Hello I am familiar with previous Wordpress installers, but in this new version I've hit something new that I don't see documented. I am attempting to install wordpress to MAMP as my localhost and I'm getting errors that indicate the table creation has failed. PHP: 5.2.11 MySQL: 5.1.37 I've used the installer interface to set db set...

Wordpress Hooks vs. includes?

This is somewhat a subjective question. Noticed themes like thematic and carrington use hooks to display their themes. Trying to figure out which works best for a more efficient workflow. Which seems more efficient at theming? Trying to weigh in the cons and pros of hooks vs. just including static files. ...

Get the WPMU default blog domain

I have a network of blogs that link to each other. The problem is when I want to get the primary blog's domain. I need it for things like the the target of the logo when clicked. I can't seem to find a function in WPMU the retrieves this. I can see the value I want in the wp_site table. I could easily get it with $wpdb, but its a bit ov...

Apache mod_rewrite help with Wordpress

I administer my wife's site, namelymarly.com. Up until last week, the root page of the blog was namelymarly.com/blog/. Last week I changed it in the WP settings to be namelymarly.com. WP created the new htaccess file, and I moved the index.php to the root directory (but left the WP folder where it was in the /blog/ directory), as instr...

Can Wordpress Duplicate An Entire Page Structure?

I have a wordpress site that i've been working on that has some pages (as in NOT posts) that a client changes content on in order to target particular keywords. these pages have been using podscms for content management. The client now wants to be able to duplicate these pages any number of times and edit the text within them. So basica...

Questions about Wordpress 3.0 RC

I'm looking to upgrade my blog from Wordpress 2.5 to 3.0 RC, but I'm not sure if: It is stable? It will support existing v2.5 plugins? It will support my custom themes? Or do I have to design them from scratch for 3.0? Many thanks for your help! ...

Apache Virtual Hosts with Multiple wordpress blogs.

Hi, I'm running a VPS @ slicehost with Linux 9.10. I've got a basic Lamp setup so far. I am hosting a few sites and adding a half dozen more, and I'd like almost all of them to have word press blogs available. I tried installing wordpress into each directory following the normal instructions thinking that apache virtual hosts, since...