In rails I can have pretty urls like http://mydomain.com/posts/2234-the-title-of-the-post where Rails only cares for the numeric id, 2234 in the example above. For example, ...posts/2234-the-post and .../posts/2234-whatever get the same page. How can I achieve the same in Wordpress? This is: Each post has a unique numeric id Wo...
I have a custom post type called 'real-estate' and a bunch posts (listings) within it. What I'm trying to do is create a handful of home styles and within them, specific listings of available homes. So right now, I have the search query pulling in only the home styles from the search by only showing results with the custom field "model...
How would one go about adding a custom page to a wordpress installation via a plugin. For instance the plugin adds a new page_template, the user creates a blank page using that template and the plugin populates the information there? ...
Hi everyone, Curious if any of you have a good solution for the following situation... because I've never thought of anything myself and usually have to resort to custom fields like "post-image-1" through "post-image-10" and manually paste the file name of a jpg in. Which is a horrible solution and only works for tech savvy posters. Ba...
I would like to display some values from custom tables in wordpress. This is what I've got so far. I am not sure this is all completely correct. function pr_forms() { global $wpdb; $table_name = pr_table_name(); return $wpdb->get_results( "SELECT id,name,place FROM $table_name" ); } This will return multiple rows as an a...
I need few Wordpress sites for testing purposes. It would be great if I can use only one db but I need few wordpress codes/instalations (because I need different settings and plugins for each site. Can I have all that running on one mySQL db? Would use the same db_name, db_user, db_password, etc… and the only thing I change for the...
i using word press, and i try to learn it, but is see the code which i didn't understand $post = &get_post($id); i see '&' before the get_post, what is '&' meaning? thank ...
function theme_based_on_domain( $template = '' ) { if ( preg_match( '/\S*\.?mydomain\.com/', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] )) { $template = 'ImpreZZ'; } return $template; } add_filter('stylesheet', 'theme_based_on_domain'); add_filter('template', 'theme_based_on_domain'); I have this in my theme directory right now and the ...
Hi, I would like to get last inserted id after $wpdb->insert().I got a solution with $wpdb->insert_id(); but unfortunately which retrieves the primary key plus an additional zero. ie, consider my primary key (or inserted id) is 2 $wpdb->insert_id(); retruns 20 .whats wrong with this method?anybody can please help me. ...
I have installed latest wordpress version on my WINDOWS 2003/IIS server, which has PHP support enabled. All goes well except few things: When I am trying to update a plugin automatically from wordpress dashboard, then it gives me this error "Could not remove the old plugin. Plugin upgrade failed." I tried to edit CSS of my theme, but w...
Hi, I need to read out posts and maybe write back comments to a WordPress blog. I found some documentation on their API's XML-RPC and AtomPub. But what would be the recommended way to go. XML-RPC seems more documented, as far as I can see. Any experiences/recommendations? ...
Hi there! I am using popularity contest for wordpress in a self-hosted website. Is it possible to the popularity contest only track the posts from a specific category? Thanks in advance. ...
I wasn't sure how to word this question, so i'll just explain. I want my form at www.blog.com/got-a-question/ to be sent to a verify.php however when I do it sends it to a non-existent www.blog.com/got-a-question/verify.php Where and how exactly do I direct to the verify page? ...
Is there any existing alternative on XCloner for Joomla or WP? Sultan ...
Hi guys and gals, here's one for the brightest of you: I've built a huge dynamic child page lister. I have 3 levels, here's an example: Parent child sub child sub child child child sub child sub child Here’s how it needs to work: When on the parent, show this: Parent (current) child child child When clicked into the ch...
I build a webisite with wordpress and i want to show my website to other client computers I run xampp server at server computer How can i do for that? plz answer quickly..** ...
So I've been asked to take over another persons code in WordPress with little time before launch date... Usually I would say no but it's an interesting project. I am a pretty good Drupal programmer but have little experience in WordPress. So I want to know, what is the difference between developing a Drupal module and a Wordpress plugi...
I've created a calendar plugin and now I want to show a event list in one of my templates. The code I'm using now, is this: include_once(WP_CAL_PLUGIN_DIR.'eventcal.class.php'); $calendar = new EventCalendar(); $events = $calendar->getMultipleEvents('5'); (...) <table> <?php foreach($events as $event) : ?> <tr> <td><span><?php ...
I've been trying struggling over the last 2 weeks to find a viable way to configure a Wordpress installation as a membership directory that pulls information from user profiles (custom and default) and displays it in a presentable (possibly sortable) format. Initially, something along the lines of the Sobi2 plugin for Joomla! was search...
Hi folks, I've tried the following method within a plugin: get_post_meta($featuredPosts[$i]->ID, "Thumbnail", true); within the following plugin code: $featuredPosts = new WP_Query(); $featuredPosts->query('showposts=5&cat=1'); for($i=1; $i<=$featuredPosts; $i++) { // second for() loop for post slides while ($featuredPosts->h...