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Moving wordpress from directory to root

Hi I have my wordpress in a folder, i updated the url options in the wordpress genereal settings to the root folder, i then copied all the files from the directory to the root. I have not deleted the old directory yet! When i go to log in, i can not do so, in the url it still says redirect to the old directoy. What should i do, do i ...

Creating a custom categories widget

The code below is an attempt to take the WP_Widget_Categories class and use it as the basis for a custom categories widget based on the default categories widget. I'm getting no output however and the widget is not showing up in the "Available Widgets" listing. What am I doing wrong? <?php /* Plugin Name: My Categories Widget Version: ...

Adding code to plugin that only executes the first time its activated?

Is it possible to wrap code in a special function that only executes the first time the plugin is activated? I have some database code I need to run on plugin activation, but the code need not run again after that. ...

Wordpress slideshow plugin

I am looking for a wordpress photo slideshow plugin and one of the main requirements I have is when user goes through an photo slideshow, we need to get pageviews for different slides. Can you recommend a good one that will give us pageviews when users go through slides? ...

PHP directory list question?

Can someone help me with this,I'm stuck.Dont know why this dont work $myPath = get_bloginfo('wpurl').'/wp-content/uploads/'; // this is full path function ReadDirList($d){ $dir = opendir($d); $fs = ""; while($folder = readdir($dir)) { //if(is_dir($folder)){ $fs = $fs. '<option>'.$folder.'</option>'; ...

How to use metaWeblog.newPost (xmlrpc api) properly with PHP ?

Update: solved this problem see answer I want to make new posts on my blog remotely with XMLRPC api and i m trying to use metaWeblog.newPost function, because it provides much features. I successfully added new posts into wordpress but i failed to post it in a defined category(categories) i tried lots of various things but failed at en...

How Do I Detect A WordPress Admin Panel in my Plugin?

I've got two events in my plugin. One is run for the front-end. The other is run for the admin panel. Both call the same function in one particular situation, and this echoes stuff to the screen. How do I make it such that the function is smart, calls something in WordPress, and detects whether it's being loaded in the front-end versus t...

WordPress - Synchronizing local folder and SQL table with server ftp folder / table

I'm about to design / develop a WordPress website for client that wants me to build the site on his server. I prefer to develop locally, and without lag time, but I'd like to find a middle ground that works for both of us. I have transmit for FTP and know there is a way to synchronize a local folder with the server. Although, My concern...

Wordpress and Jquery slide

I am integrating a Jquery slider inside of wordpress here is the demo of the slider. I can see the div that is their but for some reason it is not showing up. View the working site here Now my problem is that this code: <script type="text/javascript"> var _siteRoot='index.php',_root='index.php';</script> <script type="text/javascrip...

Regexp help - converting video code to wordpress short tag

Hi, I'm trying to convert a camtasia html/javascript video embed code to a wordpress flowplayer shortcode. The original code is as follows: <p>The Camtasia Studio video content presented here requires JavaScript to be enabled and the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player. If you are you using a browser with JavaScript disabled plea...

Change post categories while saving post

Hi everybody, I'm trying to change post categories inside a save_post action callback function, but I get endless recursion, because wp_update_post method fires save_post action itself. Maybe somebody did this before& Or there is a way to change post categories without using wp_update_post method? ...

Adding links to this PHP statement

Here is a PHP statement that basically sets off a javascript image slider. Only problem is I can't figure out how to get each individual image to a link to a different page. Any tips or suggestions? I appreciate it! <?php jsbrotate('height=316&width=924&imgdisp=4&imgfade=2&images=/wp-content/uploads/image_1_linked.png|/wp-content/upl...

How to loop through a specific category on single.php in Wordpress?

I've created a custom page and it is set as my homepage, within this custom page I am pulling out the latest post from a specific category, I've also created a form of pagination which when clicked upon will take the user to single.php. My intention for the single.php is to have two custom loops. Custom loop one I want single.php to dis...

wp_get_archives(cat=id) <-- Any way to specifiy cat id in archives?

Does anyone know how to specify an INCLUDE ONLY category using wp_get_archives? I would like to specify a category but then list results by month. I've tried kwebble's plugin to no avail. I've also found the following on WP forums, but it appears to only exclude categories. Perhaps it can be modified to do include? Even given that, I'm ...

WordPress - Each page of paged posts all show same posts

I set up a pagination function for my wordpress blog. When clicking to the next page, the URL is correct: "/page/1", "/page/2", "/page/3" etc, but the actual posts don't change from page to page (page 2 and page 3 still display the first page of posts). Here's the code I'm using for the loop: Edit 4/24/10: I removed the 'offset' => 1, p...

How to filter Wordpress posts using a hook in a plugin?

I'm creating a Wordpress plugin and, being a newbie in the development on this platform, I'm stuck on this problem. I'd like to have posts in the loop filtered by categories, defined by the user through an admin page. I would actually like to be able to modify query_post() parameters in the plugin, but the only trick I found is to re-ru...

Move wordpress from home web server to web server hosting account

Hi, I've installed and tested Wordpress configurations on my home server which I use as my test server. Is it possible to upload everything, including Wordpress, from my home web server to my hosting account so it will work instantly there? Of course I need to change the database name, password, but that's about it. thanks! ...

(Wordpress) Global variable to detect pagination?

I am showing 6 posts on one page. On the 7th post, pagination occurs on so on. goal: If there is more than one page (page 1, 2, 3, etc..), JavaScript is to add a specific div element. If there are only 6 posts or less, no pagination occurs, no div element is added. The number of posts to show: $showposts = get_query_var('showposts'...

Addiing captions above images in wordpress

So I added some code in my css and there are boxes that appear over every image that is attached to a post. I've wanted to number the images and show the image number in the box(1...n). I have this in my functions.php edit: code was added here http://pastebin.com/gVszwf75 If I run only count_images it will show the correct number of at...

how to not use relative links in html, but everytime starting from the domain.

Hi, I'm trying to make a page for use with wordpress and it's almost working, The page I want to use is an HTML page with designated space for it within certain DIVs. I'm encountering the problem of wordpress using the wrong links to kind of everything. I will probably have to change every link to http://www.mydomain.com/sub/folder/imag...