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advantages/disadvantages for building in Wordpress

I work at a more traditional ad agency and I am the sole web guy here. Recently a designer here redesigned our website based on the popular blog style seen about on the internets at the moment. Design is similar to this blog: http://effektiveblog.com/ I put forward that this would be a Wordpress job, due to the designed features (tag cl...

How to customize Subscribe2 button appearance in WordPress?

Hello, I'm very new to WordPress and have no PHP or CSS experience... I'm want to use Subscribe2 plugin in my blog, together with iNove theme. When I add the widget, the Subscribe/Unsubscribe buttons are rendered in the "classic" way, which makes the page quite ugly (the blog is at: http://www.adlerr.com) How can I customize the ap...

How do I order subpages within my static ones in Wordpress.org 2.8.4 ?

I already applied a custom order for the toplevel navigation of my page, but it doesn't automatically sort the submenus alphabetically, although i assumed this behavior: Pages are usually ordered alphabetically, but you can put a number above to change the order pages appear in. (We know this is a little janky, it’ll be better in future...

Wordpress: Two different Permalinks for same Blog

Is there any way we can have two different Permalinks in a Wordpress blog? This is because lot of us starts blogging when we have limited knowledge of SEO and end up in some URLs which are not that SE friendly. Hence lot of pages from Blogs are already indexed by search engine and we do not want to spoil old URLs. Thus I want to creat...

Need a code sample showing how to post to Wordpress using Codeigniter.

Does anyone have a code sample they can share that show how to make a basic blog post to Wordpress using the CodeIgniter xml-rpc library? So far, I have this, which always results in "Bad login/pass combination", although I am using the correct combination. function doPost(){ $this->load->library('xmlrpc'); $bloguser = "theUserid"...

CMS vs. Straight HTML for a site?

I'm going to start work on a site for a client and I'm struggling with how to go about doing it. They want (in order of priority) A site that looks pretty and is functional in that it will present the information they want in a way that makes sense. A site that is easy to update and add to. The guy who will be doing the updates is a sm...

jQuery ready function doesnt work in wordpress

I'm using jQuery at wordpress (@the HOME page) and the ready function doesnt work for me. I have a index.php which is including (php) a header, footer and a sitebar. I tested this code: <script type="text/javascript" src="path_to_jquery/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { ...

Sending custom GET requests in Wordpress as clean url's

I have a page called "user" and on that page I show stats about specyfic user,but the url is like http://somepage.com/user/?u=ID , I want to make http://somepage.com/user/ID , tried htaccess, but no result ...

htaccess in wordpress, problem with sending get data

I have htaccess file : RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^user/([a-z0-9-\s]+)?/$ user/?u=$1 [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^user/([a-z0-9-\s]+)?/$ [NC] RewriteRule ^.*$ - RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRu...

Guitar Tablature and Music sheet oriented plugins for wordpress or Drupal

I'm familiar with wordpress and cakePHP; however, I'm building a small community website (hobby) that allows users to post music sheet (pdf/image) or guitar tabs ( text files). These music sheets should be organized by artists and songs. I've already built my own cms, but I'm not looking forward to maintain it as i'm scared I won't have ...

Format dates in a WordPress plugin

I'm modifying the Recent-Changes WordPress plugin to display dates. I can echo the date but can't format it; e.g., mm/dd/yyyy. I'd like the post_modified date to be in mm/dd/yyyy. I've tried-- echo '<li>'.$RecentChange->post_modified('m/d/Y'). -- but that caused the plugin to stop displaying posts, and generally broke the site. Bel...

WordPress Subscribe2 plugin escapes characters in blog name when sending email

Hello, I'm using Subscribe2 plugin in my new upcoming WordPress blog (http://www.adlerr.com). My blog's title is "Roee Adler's Blog". When sending an email, Subscribe2 escapes the apostrophe in my blog's title, and the e-mail subject is received as follows: [Roee Adler&#039;s Blog] Please confirm your request The e-mail body is: Roe...

What is the best Wordpress Plugin for Email?

Hi Could anyone recommend a good wordpress plugin that simply allows me or any user with a certain roll/capability to access an email page. Here they can select a role to send emails to, write the subject and content of the email. Also it would be great to have some hooks such as: %firstname% %lastname& I have looked at WP-Email and...

custom fields in wordpress rss feed

I have 2 customfields in my wordpress system when creating new posts. 1 called homethumb (is the title of an image) and another called description. I would like to edit the rss feed so it shows the image and the description rather then the complete post. But I don't know how to do this. cause I would like to fetch that rss with simple ...

What is the simplest library for consuming wordpress xmlrpc API

Hi guys, I want to consume wordpress XMLRPC API for my latest experiment. Do you know what is the simplest library to do this? PHP4 compatibility is not important as it's obsolete anyway. ...

Can my user log in and show their reputation?

Hi there guys and gals. We just started a new hosted wordpress blog. And since we have a log in system, we wondered if we could tie in a reputation system with it. We aren't that much into technical wizzardry... so any help will be appreciated! ...

How can I filter blog posts by author?

I'll use have_posts function to fetch messages, how can I filter posts by author name? ...

How do I display a preview of an unsaved article in Wordpress?

I'm working on a site where we are accepting article submissions from the public. The plan is to create user records and article records at submit time. But we'd also like to show a preview, either in an iframe on the same page or in a separate window. Any suggestions on how to get a reasonable preview without round-tripping the dat...

Complex SQL query, involving three tables and variable table names

I have two different tables from which I need to pull data blogs which has the following column blog_id and another table which has a variable name, like $blog_id . "_options Which has the following columns: option_id, option_name, option_value For example: option_id = 1, option_name='state', option_value='Texas' option_id =...

Display Twitter tag cloud in Wordpress

Is there a way to display a tag cloud of terms from a single Twitter account within Wordpress i.e. on a page or in the sidebar? I know there's a Delicious Wordpress sidebar tag-cloud - so figured there might be. ...