I've got the bare minimum to handle the Linux/MySQL parts of the stack, but I want to have a basic grasp of PHP before I dive in. I'll be working on WordPress plugins, in case there's anything specifically interesting for that. PS - any recommendations regarding recommended source control/IDEs would also be great, but I guess that's a ...
I am attempting to start a new Wordpress blog. I am seeing funny characters in some browsers but not others instead of single quotes, double quotes and ellipses. Things I already thought of: The HTML template page for output itself is set to UTF-8 The admin page is UTF-8 The MySQL database tables where the data is stored are UTF-8 en...
A prospective client wants to have a calendar feature on their website. They want the option to go edit this calendar to update the events. Does Word Press offer something like this? ...
I'm wondering how I can make a plugin to output some data via the admin panel. Just to get me going what code would make a page in the admin panel (for only administrators) to display time()? ...
Hi, I'm starting a Wordpress Blog that will have adult content on it, so I'll need a first-time-only splash page in Wordpress. The first-time-only issue, I can fix with a cookie (although I am aware that not everyone has cookies enabled) What I could do is, create a script that loads another page if a cookie isn't present. Or I could ...
Besides the CODEX what resources do you recommend to help a person new to creating plugins help create a WordPress plugin. I have an idea, but need a bit better explanation than what is in the CODEX to get started. UPDATE: Is there a book that I could buy to help me out with this? ...
If you wanted to add a user forum to your software site, and make it look and work like your WordPress blog, what forum software would you choose? Apparently bbPress has the same origins as WordPress, but is it best or are there other choices that are better? Followup: My final solution was to integrate bbPress 0.99 with WordPress 2...
I'm developing a small business website and want to give some control over content to the client but also allow myself control over the outputted code. Indeed allow the user to fill in the content gaps while not creating havoc. I'm leaning towards WordPress rather than reinventing the wheel in asp.net, which would be my code of choice,...
There are tons of platforms for building communities, i have been searching all around and i think the best would be to go with an open source platform, i am evaluating buddypress new community module by automatic the guys behind wordpress,it seems pretty solid, i tried also Drupal but i see it is very complicated. What would you recom...
Wordpress provides a function called "the_permalink()" that returns, you guessed it!, the permalink to a given post while in a loop of posts. I am trying to URL encode that permalink and when I execute this code: <?php print(the_permalink()); $permalink = the_permalink(); print($permalink); print(urlencode(the_permalink())); print(urle...
I've used the Blogger Data API and I know WordPress has an API of their own, but is there any standard in the works? Hypothetically, if you were starting your own blog-style CMS that you wanted to make available via a web service, what API would you choose? ...
Has anyone ever modified the "post-new.php" file in their WordPress installation? I want to modify the look of this page to include pieces that I standardly include in my blog posts, and I just don't know if it is do-able/easy/worth my time. Should I just find another CMS that allows more modifcation like Drupal? ...
I'm writing a script to display the 10 most recently "active" WordPress blog posts (i.e. those with the most recent comments). Problem is, the list has a lot of duplicates. I'd like to weed out the duplicates. Is there an easy way to do this by changing the MySQL query (like IGNORE, WHERE) or some other means? Here's what I have so far:...
I was wondering if there is a single API documentation with "argument list" and the detailed description (and struct definition) of all the return values for all the blogging APIs like Blogger API,mt, metaweblog, and wp? ...
Why does this code fail to display the category name "Apples" using the current WordPress taxonomy system? The Category names are stored in the $wpdb->terms table (wp_terms). <?php $ra_category_id = 3; $ra_category = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT name FROM $wpdb->terms WHERE term_id = '3'"); $ra_category_name = $ra_category->name; ?...
Hi. I moved an ex-site based on joomla to wordpress. Import worked fine but the problem is that the old links don't work anymore. Because there is only 50 or so articles, i thought will be a good idea to put a rule for each post (in .htaccess). Well... Not always things are like you want, so redirects dont work at all :( Old joomla lin...
$pee = preg_replace( '|<p>|', "$1<p>", $pee ); This regular expression is from the Wordpress source code (formatting.php, wpautop function); I'm not sure what it does, can anyone help? Actually I'm trying to port this function to Python...if anyone knows of an existing port already, that would be much better as I'm really bad with reg...
I don't know if it is possible to add a Flash banner into a Wordpress theme... Ideally, this banner would be in the header of the site always. Any ideas on how I might accomplish this? ...
In WordPress, how do I hide a Page? How do I then reimplement it as a DIV, let's say, on another Page? Context I'm trying to get some year-end tax write-offs here for my freelance business, and so I'm donating WordPress sites to churches. Now, unfortunately I'm finding that several pastors don't understand computers that well, and ev...
I'm currently about to enter a web design contest at my school along with a friend, and together we wanted to create a Wordpress blog theme. But so far... none seem to just be barebones, without and CSS Code, just the PHP code already there. Just if you know of a "blank" Wordpress theme... thanks. UPDATE : I do in fact know CSS and have...