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A featured post above then below another loop will exclude the featured post

Hi Im trying to do some stuff on wordpress, my question is how can I exclude the featured post in another wordpress loop Any help is appreciated. ...

Website Replication using Wordpress

Hi I have a wordpress installed on h*ttp://domainname.com and I would like to have replication of the same website on a subdomain for example h*ttp://sub1.domainname.com h*ttp://sub2.domainname.com What should I do to make this happen without copying any database and the wordpress should be smart enough to recognize the...

JQuery UI Tabs + Wordpress issues

Hello dear Stackoverflow gurus, I am trying to integrate JQuery tabs with my WordPress blog, to replace old HTML Navigation menu. I am half way there but not quiet... Take a look for yourself: http://www.isahat.com The template breaks right away since the first button of the Tab menu is linked to index.php like so: Home ...

Automating Wordpress Development and Deployment

Has anyone ever worked on a WordPress project with multiple developers in different locations? Are there best practices around distributed development teams and automated deployments? I have a team of varying degrees of developers, including plugin developers, theme developers, and simple CSS style tweakers, in a few different locations...

Where to start when developing an app for a website

Hey! I am planning on developing an iPhone App for a website, powered by Wordpress. Where can/should I start codewise when developing an app for such sites? Should I use Wordpress' API, or should I access the (MySQL) database directly? I am very open for ideas. Thank you. ...

Thesis theme adding a div

How do I add a div between the header area and content area of a thesis theme. What is the code I need to write in custom_functions.php file to do this? If that's not the place, where do I need to make changes to get this done? ...

.htaccess and MP3s

I'm trying to restrict access to MP3's to users only (i'm using wordpress) I have my .htaccess set up to redirect back to the homepage unless you click it - to prevent people just typing in the url. But when a registered user does click it the MP3 doesn't stream (in safari) and when you try to 'download linked file' you get a html fi...

Wordpress URL Rewriting Ignores Existing Files

I have wordpress installed at the web root directory of a server. I also have a file called test.php in the same directory that is not at all related or connected to wordpress (atleast not by any code within the test.php file). if i go to http://myurl.com/test.php i get my theme's styling and the wordpress error message for when it can't...

PHP in Wordpress Posts - Is this okay?

I've been working with some long lists of information and I've come up with a good way to post it in various formats on my wordpress blog posts. I installed the exec-PHP plugin, which allows you to run php in posts. I then created a new table (NEWTABLE) in my wordpress database and filled that table with names, scores, and other stuff....

How to write custom (odd) authentication plugins for Wordpress, Joomla and MediaWiki?

On our network (a group of related websites - not a LAN) we have a common authentication system which works like this: On a network site ("consumer") the user clicks on a login link This redirects the user to a login page on our auth system ("RAS"). Upon successful login the user is directed back to the consumer site. Extra data is pas...

WordPress equivalent of Drupal's url()

Is there any WordPress equivalent function for Drupal's url()? ...

How to add a Favicon to RSS feeds using Wordpress?

A friend of mine wants to make her favicon visible when people user Google Reader to view the RSS of her Wordpress blog. Anyone have a quick tip on how / where to make that reference? Her current web host is Bluehost, and apparently that is the "icon" people see when using Google Reader. Any suggestions would be helpful. ...

Path issue in wordpress blog

We are having some issue with our relative path in wordpress. Earlier our application was like http://www.skill-guru.com/skill . So if we type the blog address as http://www.skill-guru.com/blog it would add a / at end and open it as http://www.skill-guru.com/blog/ Now our application opens as root in domain http://www.skill-guru.com. Our...

Should every code for the Wordpress plgins be included in the functions and hooked with the Wordpress ?

I just started the Plugin development for the Wordpress, but finding it little difficult to understand. Looks like everything should be hooked with the wordpess to get it run and moreover are there all the global variables that i need to use. I am making a video plugin and designed some of the forms and display page, but didn't went th...

Wordpress Plugin with Database connection

Hi all, I am using WordPress Version 2.9.2 for my blog.when i am trying to include a database connection in one of my plug-in which is not working properly.Which did not get the database connection.But in all other directory it is possible to use a common connection.So,now I am using manual coding in all of my plug-in file.Any ways to ge...

How to display child posts of a given post with pagination?

Hi, I am newbie for wordpress. Can anyone help me to display a list of posts under given parent post. I need to manage pagination for those child posts. I have used this code. $all_pages = get_pages('child_of='.$post->ID.'&sort_column=post_title'); foreach($all_pages as $pages) { // here goes display...

index of all entries for WordPress blogs

I'm an avid reader of several WordPress(.com) blogs. Is there a simple way (via the API rather than screen scraping) to get an index of all posts (with date, title and URL) so I don't have to manually wade through the back archives? ...

Wordpress - Force most recent posts first

I want to use the plugin WP Smart Sort to sort my posts alphabetically, except I need the most recent posted first on the home page. The relevant existing code for the home page is below. Is there something I can add to it to force it to include the recent posts and go by date rather than by the alphabetical order I want everywhere else?...

Wordpress Multilingual date

I am trying to set the date appear in the french way e.g "2 Mai" instead of "May 2" here is my code:' <?php // Get today's date in the right format //$todaysDate = date('M d'); $todaysDate = date('m/d/Y H:i:s'); ?> <?php query_posts('showposts=5&category_name=events&meta_key=Date&meta_compare=>=&meta_value='.$todays...

Wordpress slideshow plugin with scrollbar, autoplay and lightbox

I have been asked to build a portfolio website for a photographer. The main page contains a slideshow of the photographer's best work, I have used an autoplaying NextGEN SmoothGallery with Lytebox. After some customization of the plugin, this works. However, the client has requested a category selection above the main slideshow and a sc...