Some background info -- In wordpress I have my portfolio as a parent page with each item of work a child page. I also have a blog. I want to display the most recent 6 items on the homepage whether they are from my portfolio or my blog. I have a loop that displays the posts and on another page I have a loop that displays the child pa...
I am modifying a wordpress theme completely, and have run into one very simple problem. Please look at my page here: wordpress blog When you scroll down, you can see the one blank area under the first post. For some reason, that block isn't floating left. Each post has the following css that fits in a 645px container: .home-post-wrap {...
I have some setup code in my functions.php file that sets permalinks and adds categories that are used by the theme. I only want this code to run when the theme is first activated. There is no need for the code to run again. However, by placing it in the functions.php file, it runs each and every time a page on the website is loaded. Is...
I'm creating a plugin for wordpress and I need to check if a post with a specific title exist or not. This to prevent duplicates, how can I query this and see if it returned true or false? ...
Can someone give me an essential Wordpress Loop and explain to me what's happening with it? I'd like to put together some templates, but I don't do well with blackboxing. In other words, I'm fully capable of writing my own CMS, but when it comes to using someone else's and its arbitrary rules, I'm completely at a loss, and I just can't g...
What am I doing wrong here? I'm serializing a value, storing it in a database (table bb_meta), retrieving it... OK so far... but then I have to unserialize it twice. Shouldn't I be able to just unserialize once? This seems to work, but I'm wondering what point about serialization I'm missing here. //check database to see if user has eve...
Hi, I have a custom page template with code: <?php /* Template Name: Featured */ get_header(); ?> <div id="content_box"> <div id="content" class="posts"> <img src="http://www.dinneralovestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/favorites.png" alt="Favourites"/><br clear="all" /><br /> <?php //The Que...
I've got about 6 subdomains that have a "contact us" link and I'm sending all these links to a single form that uses "Contact Form 7". I add ?from=site-name to each of the links so that I can set a $referredFrom variable in the contact form. The only two things I'm missing are (1) the ability to insert this referredFrom variable into th...
I have a WordPress installation on my site, and I want to display WP posts on other parts of my site (that is outside the WP installation). How do I do that with PHP? I tried to search this type of question on Stack Overflow, Google and WP official site but I didn't find anything. ...
i'm in need a solution via coding. on how to completely hide my blog feed. I know how to optimize related hook and filter such as 'the_excerpt_rss' and 'the_post_rss'. And also understand how to limit access or make my blog private. so, the question is more about howto blocking feed access without make my blog private ? i hope the sol...
I am a newbie to both PHP and Wordpress (but do ok in C#), and am struggling to understand the error handling in a custom plugin I am attempting to write. The basics of the plugin is to query an exsiting MSSQL database (note its not the standard MYSQL db...) and return the rows back to the screen. This was working well, but the hosting p...
I've added a custom "save_post" action to my theme (code is below). However, when I place images or video code in the post, its stripped away. The only way I can get it to stay is to comment out the add_action line. What do I need to do in order to keep all the post info intact? add_action('save_post', 'custom_add_save'); function cust...
Hello! You can see here what i am doing: http://www.arvag.net/otkrijte-svet/leto/ So its pulling 2 custom fields from child pages, one of them is just url for the image on the left, and the other field is that text showing on the right. Now, what i want to do is to add pagination there. The code i have now will just simply show all c...
Hello :) I want to make an iPhone OS app for a Wordpress blog, and I'm unable to figure a way to grab the data from the blog. The XML-RPC doesn't seem to have an anonymous read-only mode The RSS feed has truncated posts So, if anyone managed to make it, please help me ;) ...
Somebody said that when your PHP Code and application use global variable then it must be a spaghetti code (i assume this). I use wordpress a lot. As far as i know, it's the best thing near a great php software. And it use many global variables to interact between its components. but forget about that, cause frankly, that's the only th...
Hi, I got this plugin and have created my list etc and it's appearing fine. However, I am wondering how I create a list under another list...like the second level part of the list? I'm trying to create a dropdown menu you see. In the admin, when I try and drag the item over, it will only let me put it in the first level, how do I get i...
Do I actually have to return $postID in each case, in the code below? This is code required for capturing the values of custom fields I've added to the WP post and page editor. Got the idea from here: http://apartmentonesix.com/2009/03/creating-user-friendly-custom-fields-by-modifying-the-post-page/ add_action('save_post', 'custom_add_...
Hey All I'm making a wordpress theme options page, and one of the options I want to make is how to add/removes dynamic rows by that the user can make it when he want to add a block. something like this <table id="block" width="350px" border="0"> <tr> <td> 1 </td><!--Nomber of the row--> <td><input type="tex...
What's the difference ? How to replace the_content (used within a loop) with get_posts ? ...
Hello, If you visit this site: http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/ You would see that there is an image and summary for each post. What is the proper way to implement that? Is this done using wordpress custom fields? Or whether this is coded in image.php file present in theme folder? How do i do that? Thanks. ...