I have never messed with wordpress much and am real stuck. I am trying to add a video playlist/gallery via jquery. Not a wordpress plugin. I am not even sure what I am doing wrong and am hoping someone could help me through it please. The site is here, http://okaysewwhat.com/ it is just a skeleton now since this does not work yet. Th...
I never know what to do when my Wordpress installation tells me there's an update available. I am using version 2.8 so whenever there is an update, all I have to do is click update, some magic happens behind the scenes, and it gets updated. But should I create backup files? And how? I have custom themes and plugins that I don't want to g...
How to get the currently logged in user's role in wordpress? ...
Hi friends, I have a commercial site (php), and have a Wordpress blog in a subdirectory. I need to display latest posts at homepage which is out of Wordpress :/ site: http://www.blabla.com blog: http://www.blabla.com/blog/ So I need to display posts at www.blabla.com/index.php. How can I access Wordpress functionality? Thanks a lot!...
I am looking for a way to limit the amount of characters displayed in a heading using jquery. Essentially the heading is retreived from the database but I only want the results to display on one line of a set width so would like to limit the output or abbreviate it to stop the images below being pushed too far down. The following Live e...
I currently run several Wordpress MU installations. My users are asking for the ability to post video (not just Youtube, but from our own Flash Media Server). By default, Wordpress strips out <embed> tags. Now, I would never allow users to include PHP or JavaScript in their posts, do I have to worry about Flash vulnerabilities? How d...
hi im using the newest version of wordpress version 2.8.4 im wondering how i would add an additional page. i have a navigation that looks something like this. home | about us | contact us | ... etc. i read somewhere to go to pages -> addnew but it forces me to put the content within wordpress rather than edit a php file itself. how ...
I need to change the default email text that will be sent while creating a new user in wordpress. Where can i find the option to change the default text: Welcome [username] to [blogname] Please find below your login details: Username: [username] Password: [password] [blog url] ...
Hi, I have a website with around 500 html pages. I have now posted all these html pages into my blog as blog posts. I now want to now redirect users from the page to the blog. I could do that using mod_rewrite or JavaScript Since Google will re-index these posts, which of the these two methods would be a better option for SEO? Kindly ...
Does this plugin works with wpmu? If not, what are alternatives for wpmu? ...
Regarding Wordpress: Is it best practice to distribute a functions.php file (to be stuck in a WP theme) filled with helpful functions, or distribute a plugin for wordpress that enables these functions anywhere? ...
Which is better, Wordpress OR Joomla? What are their pros and cons? In which case you use Wordpress over Joomla and vice versa? For development which one I can use as development framework? ...
I am using Selenium RC and I have a test case creating posts and checking in the frontend (public side) if the posts were created and how they are rendered. But even if I log in at the beginning of the test case when I call the open command to go to wp-admin I am sent to the log in page. Why is the open ignoring that I am already authe...
Hi all, I have my permalinks in WordPress set to the Month and Name setting. This generates URLs like /blog/2009/09/my-post-name. Every time a post is updated, it changes the posting date, which can potentially change the permalink address. This is wreaking some havoc on my site, as I'll have banner/button ads throughout that point to ...
The following rewrite passes a string starting with the number 4 as a variable to process.php : RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(4[^/]*)$ /process.php?variable=$1 [L] So this http://www.domain.com/4shopping is mapped to http://www.domain.com/process.php?variable=4shopping But...
The page in question is http://matthewanderson.cc I'm a javascript newbie working on a WordPress-based portfolio site. I'm using jQuery .load() to fetch content from WordPress posts, and it works in Firefox, Safari and Chrome, but not any of the IEs. The specific Ajax code is here: $(document).ready(function(){ $("a.ajax-load").click(...
I have a permalink structure of /%catergory%/%postname%/. When I go to blah.com/categoryname I want all posts in that specific category to be listed. When I go to blah.com/categoryname/post-name I want just the specific post to be displayed. I have made a category specific template (category-5.php) and have got as far as... // Display...
I want to be able to understand the standard function description that is provided for Wordpress functions. In particular, could someone explain the following example from here: Usage <?php wp_list_categories( $args ); ?> Default Usage <?php $args = array( 'show_option_all' => , 'orderby' => 'name', 'order...
Hello everyone! I have a drop-down menu that are dynamically added through WordPress. It looks like this: Pictures Sea Forest City "Sea", "Forest" and "City" is categories with "Pictures" as parent category. My question is: How do I make the "Pictures" category unclickable? I did this with jQuery: $(document).ready(fu...
I noticed that in a recent update WordPress decided to change all of its column names to include the table name prefix. WHY?! The wp_posts table now has a column called post_title, for example. It used to just be title. I don't understand the reason for this change. There must've been one, yes? I just don't understand what possible rea...