In Wordpress, how would I pull data from an external Microsoft SQL database to display as a read only table? To be clear, this is not a question on how to convert Wordpress over to MS SQL, but rather how to pull data for a specific widget from a source outside the primary Wordpress DB. The data I need to pull from happens to be in a MS ...
I posted a similar question earlier today but this question is clearer. I want to locally develop my Wordpress websites (on my Mac) and test them in Internet Explorer (6,7,8) on Windows XP. I can get the MAMP welcome screen to show in Windows XP, so I know VMWare is doing it's thing. The local URL for my site (on my Mac) is: URL (htt...
I know I should post this on the WPMU forum, but no one writes me back and I'm just trying to find a larger audience hoping you have run into this issue as well. I have built a WPMU site for a client, and I am able to upload media into the Media Library and within a Post or Page perfectly. I thought my job was finished, yet the client c...
Is it possible to create an image gallery in wordpress that is managed by the admin via it's own page / panel. I am not talking about creating a new post and adding custom html for each image. I mean actually having a page in the admin that has the ability to upload and manage your images? If it is possible how do you go about creatin...
Hello, I asked the following question on SuperUser.com and the question was closed. Maybe it should be asked on ServerFault.com. Not sure. But here it is on SO hoping it will get some traction. Hello, I have a wordpress website. It is NOT a wordpress.com website. This website is hosted at godaddy.com This weekend whenever I fired u...
I'm writing a Wordpress plugin, and based on certain circumstances, I want to redirect to a different page, but the redirect never happens. headers_sent() returns false. I'm using the pre_get_posts hook. Here is a small snippet: function test_redirect() { header("Location: http://www.cnn.com/"); } add_action('pre_get_posts', 'test_...
Hi friends, I researched at google but couldnot find anything. Is there a plug-in or anything that will allow us to edit the meta tags for each individual post? Appreciate helps! thanks. ...
I'm trying to build a template system in CodeIgniter like wordpress. Does anyone have some links or tips to share with me on this matter? I would like to create several functions that I can call from those php template pages like in wordpress. For example to display the comments from an item or loop through something, or even a tag_coul...
Hi, I am trying to make a custom theme with a little summary of post. And i would like to show a thumb version of each first image associate with a post. If there's no image i just show a placeholder. I am using custom values to add images to verious post templates. This function didn't do the trick (only partly, just the one functio...
I've a select menu hardcoded in a wordpress (php) theme, but the manager requires to edit those frequently. Is it possible to populate the select dropdown options from a text file import? So he just has to edit the text file and the menu options would change. The current menu looks like this: <select name="location" id="sort-location" ...
I need to create a dash board widget in wordpress.It is possible to create a dash board widget?If yes,In which folder we need to save the widget creation file. thanks ...
global $wpdb; // find list of events $qry = "SELECT select event_name, event_link, event_loc, event_desc, event_start_time,event_end_time FROM wp_wplistcal ORDER BY event_start_time ASC"; $events = $wpdb->get_results( $qry ); var_dump($events);` How can i make own queries within WP?? ...
Hello, I have created an online magazine (that I hope will take off someday) using wordpress. I would like to be able to track the number of page views of each item without using a wordpress plugin. What is the best solution?? Should I use jQuery to track page views and then insert that data into a custom wordpress table? Or is it p...
Hi all: First of all I must say I am more a programmer than a designer, so my knowledge and capability for designing a "fancy" interface is not on par with a normal web designer. I often come in situations like customers want me to finish their blog - or mini CMS ASAP. And their first preference would usually be WordPress. No offense, ...
I would like to add thesis theme to my blog in wordpress.When i am editing theme from thesis option it change only the built in html.How can we give the same effect to our html also. ...
I just started checking out Wordpress' CSS Architecture to study a system that's established and pretty powerful to learn better HTML habits. I've noticed they use all hyphens - (post-554 for example), while Rails uses underscores _ (post_554 for example). I'm wondering if there's some setting to customize this in Rails, something like...
Hi all, I want to change my rss feed. But can't get it done. I have an idea to implement this, just modify the tag and make it as follows: <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.site.com/thumbnail-40x40.jpg"/> Lorem Ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem Ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem Ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem Ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem Ipsum Lorem ipsu...
I have mades some hacks to a P2 theme that work ok. Only problem is in Google chrome, I see verticle scroll bars against each page and post content area. Each page/post only shows a small amount of scroll area, regardless of how much content there is. This is pointless. I guess there's a theme function somewhere that is doing this. Anyon...
Anybody know how can we change the background of our webpage without using custom css from thesis options/design options. ...
Hello, I need to get all posts via the wordpress loop but i need them to be grouped by category and cronological within each category. Anyone know how I should go about this? Thanks! ...