Greetings and thanks in advance for your feedback. Now I realize that this isn't GoDaddy tech support but I'm asking the question here before I step into those murky, black waters. Scenario: I edit the CSS and various templates for the default template via Appearance > Editor. All looks and performs great. I hand off to my client. S...
I need to create a php call that will recognize the last page a user navigate from and display a header associated with the page. Example: User navigates to post from page 1 then header 1 appears, but if the navigate to same post from page 2 then header 2 is displayed. Any ideas. I am lost on where to even start. ...
Currently there is a bug in WordPress if you have a Posts Page set under: Settings->Reading->A Static Page->Posts Page If there are posts, than the page (e.g. with a slug called news) displays the post, and uses index.php from the theme. But, with this configuration, if there are no posts, then it calls the theme's 404 page. Thi...
Is there a way to delete all WordPress authors which have 0 posts? ...
Background: I have a site that displays songs with the Post structure of .com/song/foo.html I am adding every song to an additional child category called "private" that uses a different template (inserts premium content in custom fields), so the structure of the private versions of the Posts will be .com/song/private/foo.html. Question...
So I have been developing plugins that create interact and delete to a database by using the get_option functions. I have now seen some tutorials showing how to use the global $wpdb way of getting values from the database. What is the difference between the two, and is one better than the other? ...
I've noticed in Google's webmasters tools that I have two records showing where I have unexpected duplicated content. Its apparently happening because Google has crawled and indexed my categories and archives although I have no visible links for either (that I'm aware of). I'd like to prevent these items from being crawled and indexe...
The script below should be exluding items that are assigned to the "my-menu" category. However, they are still showing up. Can someone help me identify the logic flaw? <?php global $post; $cat=get_cat_ID('my-menu'); $catHidden=get_cat_ID('hidden'); $count=0; $myposts2=get_posts(array('post__not_in'=>get_option('sticky_posts'),'cat'...
Hi, I'm building a blog for a client and they need to be able to edit a paragraph of text in the sidebar. I currently have it setup as a 'Better Text' widget which I can quickly edit for them. I don't want to give them access to the widgets, etc but they want to be able to edit it themselves. Is there an easy way to add a custom write ...
Hello all, Quick question. How would I go about displaying comments to a static page from a comment box on a blog page where we are capturing name and email address and a short comment. One page would have the comment box and the static page will have the comments. Any help would do... Thanks, ...
There is a plugin that I am trying to adapt for my meta_tags for use with WordPress. It is called Categories by Title by http://www.mikesmullin.com. What I am trying to achieve is a nested sort. I have three meta_keys. A selection-no, release-month, and release-year. I would like to sort posts within their category by release-year (as...
A WordPress build i am working on wants to pull in stories from rss feeds, and then allow users of the site to add comments and star ratings to each one. It doesn't really seem like the correct useage of rss to me, but is this sort of thing possible without importing/syncing the rss feeds with the database? ...
If I have a wordpress blog, is it possible to have the main url to redirect to a basic HTML page, while keeping the permalinks still displaying the blog posts within a wordpress theme? ...
Hi guys, I've written another plug-in for wordpress, On my main options page i have 3 tabs, after i click save, it updates my options, but when the page re-loads im on tab 1 of 3, were 3 = options page. the options are still showing the old values, until i either refresh the page or click on another page and come back.. all i need...
Hello all. Relatively simple question, but I can't find the answer: How can I edit static pages (or posts) with my own editor instead of using WordPress? I'm not asking about the details of how to FTP, but instead where can I actually find the pages I created using WordPress in the WordPress directory? Thanks. ...
Thanks in advance to all you .htaccess guru's out there. I'm having an issue that's been bothering me for some time. I have wordpress nested inside my own site folder structure. To the user, everything is cool. But when i go to www.domain.com/blog/wp-admin, my credentials will not log in. It just keeps looping me around to the same ...
I have a hosting (hostgator) account with a master directory and multiple subdirectories, each representing a www address. I'd like to know if its possible to create an interface in php that would allow me to update a given file (say, header.php) in a specific folder (my custom wordpress theme which resides in each site) which will be th...
Hi , I want to use CMS to make a webapp on LAMP. Which one is the best Joomla or Wordpress ? The factors I am considering are Easy to make Scalability Easily maintainable. Thanks Jijoy ...
I'm playing around with Django and have built my personal homepage in Django, but I want to use my wordpress blog as a path. For example if I want to path /blog/ in Django or in lighttpd so it will render the PHP wordpress site what is the best way to do that? I tested with proxy.server in lighttpd with no luck - it seems like Django ...
My blog's main menu is made of the categories, displayed via the wp_list_categories function. If i click on one of the categories, the current category is highlighted in the category menu, and the list of articles inside that category are listed. Everything is fine. But if i then click on one article, the Category menu does not show th...