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Wordpress Data Storage Efficiency

I've been asked to review a wordpress plugin of sorts and try to find ways of making it faster. The premise of this plugin is basically to store a bunch of users and shifts and appointments and whatnot. It involves a five major variables, Start of week, day of week, user, resource, and appointment. Currently, it's using a horrendous me...

Wordpress XMLRPC

Is there a way for me to post as a "contributor" using XMLPRC? Even if it just shows up in the Draft's section to be approved by someone of a higher level? Is there a workaround for this? ...

Tagging Posts via Wordpress XMLRPC

Hey there, i am trying to publish a new post to a wordpress blog over the XMLRPC API. This works out fine so far, but now i want to add tags to the post. Either at creation time or afterwards. But i can't find any solutions in the supported APIs. Any clue on how i can tag new posts via XMLRPC requests? ...

Differentiating between P tags wrapping images and P tags wrapping text nodes in Wordpress?

Hey all, I need a good solution to be able to style <p> tags differently in a wordpress post. More specifically I need to differentiate between paragraphs and images. Wordpress just wraps all new lines in <P> tags. Here are some possibilities: Strip all <p> tags and add <P> tags where appropriate (around text) Add a class on <P> tags...

Using jQuery Plugins with Wordpress

Having a bit of trouble using jQuery plugins (Superfish, jQuery UI, etc) using Wordpress. Everything works fine in my plain non-Wordpress site, but Wordpress seems to conflict with JQuery. There must be some way to get around this. Also, I'm using Carrington Framework, if that makes a difference. In Safari's web inspector, I get these...

Wrap stray text in <p> tags

Hey all, Wordpress issue.. how do I wrap stray text in P tags? Example: Before- <div class = "content"> <img src = "hello.jpg"/> <h1>Introduction</h1> Hello! this is stray text that I want to wrap with p tags Hello! This is another set of stray text </div> After- <div class = "content"> <img src = "hello.jpg"/>...

Display Link to Category in Wordpress?

I am trying to figure out how to display the category of an article, and a link to the category. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ...

Display Posts from a category in Wordpress?

I am trying to display just post title and their links within a set category. However I am running into issues understanding the Codex. Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. ...

How to pull "most recent post" data from a Wordpress blog?

I have two Wordpress blogs. I want to pull the "5 most recent posts" from the first blog with post title, date, and link to post and display this data on the other. I don't know if there is a plugin that does this sort of thing already, but just wondering how I can achieve this. ...

Converting Wordpress Categories into Tags

I imported about 60 posts from my old blogger blog into my new wordpress blog. The handy import process took the blogger "labels" and turned them into wordpress "categories". Since I used the blogger labels as tags, I would like to find a simple way to turn the categories into tags without doing this task manually. ...

Wordpress Database Output - Remove SQL Injection Escapes

I'm having a problem using $wbdb. When I insert or update data using $wpdb->insert or $wpdb->update, the SQL injection protection actually inserts the \' into the database, and when outputting that information it has the SQL escape with it. (ie: My Value\'s Escaped). I know there's gotta be a way to escape this using a wordpress func...

Automatic Wordpress installation?

I've been wondering about making a blog hosting site like blogspot as a bit of a hobby. I figure Wordpress would be ideal to use but I'm not 100% on a lot of things related to this. Can I simply create mysql databases and wordpress installs with php functions and keep it secure from possible hacks? Or would the server as a whole need its...

WordPress 2.8.6 foobars my theme options with escape slashes!

I've just upgraded a blog to WordPress 2.8.6 and found they are escaping quotes differently from 2.8.5 I've got a theme options panel that allows the user to input their img tags into a text area. However, when the options are saved, WP is adding escape slashes to the double quotes it finds in the text area. Example: <img src="somefi...

wordpressL How to array the child categories without any html tags?

Hello, I am using a category called 'blogs'. Under that category I have many authors. Each author gets a category for himself. In the 'blogs' template I want to display nicely a for each category and the ecxerpt from the latest post. Unfortunately, when I am trying to use wp_list_categories to query the child of that 'blogs' cat, I ...

How can I add the user/author email to the row of the "edit posts" panel ?

I want to have the user/author email available in the "edit posts" panel. Currrently the "edit posts" panel has the author name but no email and the "user" panel has author and email but doesn't have the brief post description. Any ideas? ...

How to make a "recent seen pages" for user registered in wordpress

Hi all! Is there a plugin that returns to a wordpress registered user the last pages that he has seen on a blog? Thanks in advance, Joe ...

wordpress - displaying posts in a page

I would like to display the posts the way they are shown when you have "show latest post" selected under reading settings. I've tried using query_posts, but that displays the whole post, not the chunk that appears in the preview with the link at the bottom. any ideas what I should be querying to get that? Edit I forgot to mention I ...

Wordpress custom query pagination

I have a wordpress site, where on the main page I list the content from more categories. My question is, is there a plugin where I can paginate the results from a category?I mean something like $this->plugin_paginate('category_id'); or smth? Best Regards, ...

Using EC2 Load Balancing with Existing Wordpress Blog

Hello, I currently have a virtual dedicated server through Media Temple that I use to run several high traffic Wordpress blogs. Both tend to receive sudden StumbleUpon traffic surges that (I'm assuming) cause the server CPU to run at 100% and slow down everything. I'm currently using WP-Super-Cache, S3, and CloudFront for most static fi...

User registration/login external to Wordpress MU

Can anyone point me in the right direction with regards to registering a new user in WordPress (MU specifically) from outside of wordpress? I'd also like to have the user log in/out from my own back-end code if there's a way to manipulate WordPress's codebase to do so. ...