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Hierarchical Wordpress page nav with all permalinks in the root

Hi guys, Is there a way to have a hierarchical nav for Wordpress static pages without having the permalinks appear like they're in folders? I.e., I want nav structured like this: + Home + About |- Me |- My Dog ...with permalinks like these: /home, /about, /me, /my-dog. The only way I can find to set up navigation like this through Wo...

best approaches in designing for wordpress a theme, need some advice

Hi, I'll be building a Wordpress theme and would be needing some advice in implementing it. here's the outline of my design. I will using 960.gs for the css layout. Now my worries is what approach will i be using to the services(1,2,3...)? Will I use widget fort hat? Those boxes should be easy to maintain and update. (I've been a Joom...

All users blogs browsing from default BuddyPress theme (WordPress MU)

WordPress MU.. I want to use BuddyPress as a social network only (keeping blog creation and editing functionality) but preserving users from browsing their blogs from anywhere but default BuddyPress blog\theme so that if this is default link to some user's blogs ( wp/members/dreadnought/blogs/ ) this will be link for his posts ( wp/membe...

Wordpress the_author() and wp_get_archives() not working

Hi all, Firstly, I'm not fresh faced with WordPress, I've been actively using it for various light-weight custom CMS since the early 1.x line. I'm using a fresh build of 2.8.6 for a very, very simple blog build. Only one category and only one 'single' template. There's no other functionality, so the site only really requires the index....

Wordpress Base Path Hook?

What's the wordpress / php hook to link to the base path of the wordpress installation? I want to be able to link to the home page of the wordpress blog, regardless of which directory the theme is installed in. ...

How to filter posts by day, week and month in Wordpress from people clicking on a horizontal menu link

Hi everyone, I am trying to make a filter on a set of menu buttons, so when you click on today it shows all the posts for today, then if you click on this week it shows all the posts for this week and then last week and last month. Does anyone know what code I need to use to make this work from a menu button? ...

alternative to update_option() in wp-admin

I know this is a fairly recent feature in wordpress (version is 2.8.6 at the time of writing). There are some functions that allow you to easily create panels in the wp-admin. You're supposed to be able to just define a function and a from, and wordpress will handle the update_option() calls. I haven't had much success in hunting it down...

WP HTTP Error: couldn't connect to host

I'm running Wordpress on MAMP and for some reason I get an error on all of my RSS feeds saying WP HTTP Error: couldn't connect to host I think its a configuration problem in MAMP with cURL, but not sure how to fix it. I have cURL enabled. ...

WordPress Plugin Coding Problem

I'm trying to convert a plugin I wrote procedurally to be class based, and it's not working for some unknown reason. So I wrote cut down my plugin code to be about as minimilistic as possible. When it runs, it comes back with no content. <?PHP /** * Plugin Name: A1 Test * Version: 1.0.0 * Plugin URI: * Descripti...

Wordpress Mobile Version

I'm interested in creating an alternate version of a Wordpress site, specifically tailored for mobile devices. (We're talking about iPhones in particular, but something more generic would be cool, too.) My thinking on this right now is that I'll need to figure out how to serve the content from one Wordpress installation to two different...

Wordpress hiding Post Div

I wanted to know how to make it possible that if there is no post i would like to be able to hide the DIV that controls the latest blog post only having them appear when someone post somethign on a blog.. Somewhat like a position in joomla but in this case i am using wordpress ...

Software for quickest establishment of an online presence

So, every so often you get sites like http://www.twitmaps.com - sites created quickly and pushed online for a random purpose. Often either you have plenty of spare time, or you just don't have the opportunity to get your own ideas online. For example in this one, the snow images are very vague and could do with more accuracy. What too...

Wordpress website development in MVC style

Just wondering how other developer do that or if it's possible. To me Wordpress has a lot of useful template tags and can get developers kicked started quickly. Although when the site grows big, i often found the need to seperate the presentation layer and the business logic. Currently i am developing a semi large scale website with ...

How To Post Articles To Wordpress Programmatically?

Wondering is there a way so that you can post an article to Wordpress directly from your own PHP code. I want to post in my own standalone wordpress from my php page which should call the hosted wordpress 2.8.6 version and post an article with images (create thumbnail automatically). Is it possible? ...

Use first post as start-page in wordpress

Hey, Is there an easy way to redirect the user to the first post when he goes to the wordpress-installations main url.. Like, if he goes to domain.com, he will be redirected to domain.com/title-of-the-first-post.. ...

Wordpress Private Page

Is there a solution for this? 1) user logs in (with user name and password) 2) they're taken to a page (with text, images, links) that can only be viewed from their login ...

Make WordPress sticky posts behave as normal using caller_get_posts=1 isn't working

I'm making a specific single.php template. It's using a jQuery slider to slide from one post to the next. In order to show the right post first, I have to use 2 loops - one to call the first single post, and then another loop to call all the other posts in the category. This I do like this (might be a bit mucky, I'm no PHP guru) <ul id...

Feed XML content into a wordpress page

I am looking for a widget or similar for feeding some xml content (articles) into a wordpress page. ...

htaccess and sessions/cookies

Im having a problem with a htaccess rewrite rule on a site im working on. Main Dir's htaccess: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^website.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.website.com/$1 [R=301,L] This site forces the user to www.website.com, even if they enter the address sans the www. Now i have a wordpr...

Wordpress pull Blog Post

I'm designing a theme for wordpress. I need advice on how I would construct it. At the bottom of my Frontpage/Home I will put a snippets (a title and a short description of blog post) of what is new in my Blog . Preview: Question: What approach should I use? I can make the bottom page widget ready and will just use widget or will u...