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Add Theme support with specified post type

2012-05-11T10:37:26Z

I'm trying to hold my plugins and themes mostly options free, as this saves
me a lot of time (no need for activate/deactivate/uninstall + testing) and
helps my users living with a slim database.
So here's what I tried: `add_theme_support( 'plugin_name', array( 'post',
'custom_post_type' ) );`. That allows me to check the global, show/hide

We Use WordPress

2012-04-16T19:02:22Z

I would like to inform you of the existence of this new site to get
inspiration or to insert and then advertise your wordpress site!
[link]
What do you think about it?

[wp-hackers] Wordpress Multisite Installation bug

2012-03-27T14:42:17Z

Greetings,
I have a wordpress multisite installation with the following structure:
- [link] -> Main Site
- [link] -> Internal Page on Main Site
- [link] -> Internal Site
- [link] -> Internal Site 2 , etc
My problem is that if I put "www" at the beginning of the address on

[wp-hackers] My plugin doesn't work online :( Shortcode loading order?!

2012-03-26T18:56:04Z

Sorry for bother,
I just can't understand why my plugin isn't working, the post type screen is ok, but the shortcode action does'nt work at all.
When adding [mensagem], it supposed to add the form into the page, but anything show up when doing so :(
<?php
/**
* Plugin Name: Simple Messages
* Plugin URI: [link]

[wp-hackers] Sorting by column value

2012-03-26T16:33:28Z

Hi everyone,
Short description of my problem:
I have a custom post type called "press_articles",
With the code below I have created custom column, with the custom value.
add_filter('manage_press_artic les_posts_columns' , 'add_press_articles_columns');
add_action( 'manage_press_articles_posts_c ustom_column','custom_columns' , 10, 2 );

[wp-hackers] Fwd: [WordPress.org Plugins] Urgent: Your Plugin Has Been Removed

2012-03-26T05:40:14Z

I just received this email.
There are couple of things which seems to suggest that someone is trying to
spoof my WordPress.org login.
1) The email address is wrong
2) The link points to non wordpress.org domain, but it has the same look
and feel as that of wordpress.org
3) The link is asking for my wordpress.org username and password.

Re: [wp-hackers] Getting the name of the hook triggered

2012-03-25T23:56:08Z

Check out the current_filter function -
[link]
[link]
twitter: twitter.com/aaronjorbin
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[wp-hackers] best way to remove shortcode from post content

2012-03-25T18:32:13Z

I'm a big fan of simplifying regex. I think a simpler regex would be
\[shortcodename id=\"12\"\](.*)\[\/shortcodena me\]
If the id changes:
\[shortcodename id=\"[0-9]+\"\](.*)\[\/shortco dename\]
or
\[shortcodename id=\"[^"]+\"\](.*)\[\/shortcod ename\]
How you use these is up to you. My 2 cents: If this is a one-off, I'd

[wp-hackers] revamping an huge old site ( written in custom CMS ) into a fresh install WP.

2012-03-24T22:48:48Z

We need to revamp 15 year old high traffic website with 10,000+
articles/videos/audios ( where things are stored in different tables ) and
in an asp/ms-sql implementation. And we chose WP for the implementation of
the new revamped site.
Obviously, we don't want to do that manually, that is one post at a time,

[wp-hackers] Regarding Premium Themes on WordPress.com

2012-03-23T10:56:34Z

I am not sure if this is the right list to post in but can anyone
please tell me what is the procedure to include a WordPress
theme in the premium themes at WordPress.com?
[link]
Thanks for your time.
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[wp-hackers] Unit testing for WordPress

2012-03-22T21:02:47Z

Hello everyone,
I've been reviewing the Automated Testing page in the Codex -
[link] - and downloaded the sample
tests out there. It is using a separate testing environment - a separate
install to run the tests on.
Since I would like to write my own tests, is there a pack I could add to my

[wp-hackers] Force a new ABSPATH when moving WordPress?

2012-03-21T19:04:38Z

I have a quick question that may be more PHP than WordPress.
Whenever I move a small WordPress site database inclusive (and by move, I
mean change its path and URI), I usually just change all the references to
the domain in the database with a search and replace.
This seems to work for my needs, but the problem I run into every time is

Re: [wp-hackers] Hooking into WP theme/plugin update

2012-03-21T16:06:45Z

Thanks Otto and Dion. I had looked through the source before asking and
was considering using GET urlparams to do the job, but wasn't sure if
there was any type of hooks that could perhaps handle it better.
In that light, pre_http_request might be the route to go should I need
that complexity. Alternatively, I can always fall back on passing the

[wp-hackers] Running out of memory using $wpdb

2012-03-21T15:14:29Z

Hi
I have a custom table with 25k rows (and another joined on it with 300k
rows, but I haven't got to that yet).
The data is sitting on a box with a regular ~250M memory free. I'm trying
to parse the data for reporting, but cannot grab more than ~6k rows without
running out of memory (sometimes dying silently).

[wp-hackers] Hooking into WP theme/plugin update downloading

2012-03-20T21:23:21Z

I have a working (and extended) setup of Jeremy Clark's Self-Hosted
Plugin Update API
([link]). I am
setting up my update server to force/require https connections to
encrypt transmissions. I am wanting to use oAuth for authentication (and

[wp-hackers] last_updated blogs?

2012-03-20T17:39:53Z

Hello,
Just curious...
Does the "last_updated" column of a blog on the blogs table
(multisite) == the last time an entry was published to that blog (OR)
the last time anything was updated (i.e. setting changed, page added,
other...)?
Thanks!
Micky
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[wp-hackers] Dashboard???

2012-03-20T03:50:14Z

I am a total noob, In fact I don't even own a computer and never have...
So if the dashboard on a site won't let me edit or delete my post. Is that
a bug do to the new edition of WordPress or something else?
I am not the only user with this issue. So, it can't be because I only have
a phone for access to the WordPress sites.

Re: [wp-hackers] GSoC

2012-03-18T18:56:32Z

Hello, my name is Andrey. II wrote a variety of themes and plugins on
wordpress.
I really liked your ideas:
Media
File Uploader
Move WordPress
Template Versioning
I think that the idea of "Media" is particularly relevant and I would
like to work on this
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[wp-hackers] Coding Standards: Functions vs. Classes

2012-03-18T00:39:57Z

It seems there's two competing views on whether a set of functions or a
class should be used in core. For example, the relatively recent transients
API is a set of functions, but could have just as easily been a class. Is
there some reasoning behind the decision to use a set of functions instead
of a class? Or is it coders choice?

Re: [wp-hackers] Percona Server and WordPress

2012-03-15T19:03:14Z

Jeremy,
Have you written up the config changes & process of getting MariaDB set-up anywhere? I didn't see anything on your blog, but I'd love to know what it would take to implement MariaDB on my server.
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Minneapolis WordPress Development
[link]

Re: [wp-hackers] wp-hackers Digest, Vol 86, Issue 13

2012-03-15T18:23:30Z

Hello.I have a offer for any hacker that has interest.I own a website where i sell cameras .I need someone that would be shopping on my mwebsite with cc and i will pay him 30% on each goods bought at the shop. shipping to the same billing address ..if any interest ,please write me through this email address or darin.cantr...@aol.com

[wp-hackers] mask mysql password on install

2012-03-15T15:24:21Z

Anyway to mask the mysql password on install instead of showing plain text?
Thanks.
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Re: [wp-hackers] wp-hackers Digest, Vol 86, Issue 24

2012-03-15T14:34:42Z

Sent from my Droid Charge on Verizon 4GLTE
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[wp-hackers] Reset Login Timer

2012-03-14T19:37:29Z

I tried asking this in the wp.org forums, got no hits. Was wondering if someone here could advise.
I'm writing a plugin that relies on the user being logged in to access a number of features. The login expires after a period of time (24 hrs, I believe?). I want to have it reset if/when there is any activity - can be just a page load doesn't have to be anything fancy (like typing on the page). Was thinking of adding some code into my page header to reset the cookies. Just looking through things and I see that it looks like wp_set_auth_cookie() is the thing I want. I see that in user.php, there is a case where it does:

[wp-hackers] Bug with post__in in WP 3.3.1?

2012-03-14T16:58:23Z

Hi guys, I trying to get the 'Sticky' Post, but i have an issue.
I have the code above:
sticky = get_option('sticky_posts');
$slidePosts = array_slice($sticky , 0,3);
$featuredPosts = array_slice($sticky , 4, 3);
$slide = new WP_Query(array('post__in' => $slidePosts));

[wp-hackers] Adding query var to pages with rewrites

2012-03-14T14:04:09Z

I want to write a shortcode that grabs a custom query var. For example:
[link]
This loads the /contact-us/ page and adds myvar=12
I'm guessing this is much like the pagination (/contact-us/page/2), but I'm
stuck on how to do this.

[wp-hackers] congratulations on wp_localize_script

2012-03-13T22:08:17Z

Hi,
I just wanted to congratulate whoever was responsible for the recent
changes on wp_localize_script function.
This is the kind of improvement few people talk about, and I bet many
people are wondering what the hell happened:
wp_localize_script used to send all variables as javascript strings. And if

[wp-hackers] How to detect WP upgrade or installation

2012-03-12T18:39:41Z

Hi,
We have a bunch of customer websites, and occasionally one of them gets
messed up install during a core WP upgrade. I haven't been able to
pin-point what is going wrong. We've had a variety of problems from an
incomplete upgrade (in random locations) to an update where the
wp-config.php file gets cleared out (happened again today).

[wp-hackers] Who to contact in order to take over development of a plugin?

2012-03-12T17:01:50Z

Hi,
I've contacted the author of the File Icons plugin
([link]) and we agreed that I'm
taking over development of this plugin (I can send our conversation).
I'm already a contributor, but I'm not sure who I need to contact to
become the lead developer of this plugin? Can someone point me in the

[wp-hackers] newbie question on custom page templates

2012-03-12T09:38:55Z

Hi,
So I have a news site, but I want it to look less like a blog than it does. I thought about trying to create a custom page template for each category, so it looks like the site has real sections. Only returns from a given category would show up, but there would be many ways of handing them (a slider, a carousel, posts with thumbnails, posts without, etc).

[wp-hackers] Multiple versions of same install independently running on same server

2012-03-11T16:54:30Z

Need multiple versions of same install independently running on same
server. No sharing of install/files/databases. Just want to git clone
the same install (many different template/style.css customizations
between independent site installs) into different install directories
and map them independently (with with diff Apache virtual hosts or

[wp-hackers] corrected > coding standards and practicality of use.

2012-03-10T17:32:46Z

(left/right correction applied.)
I am trying to build a new framework that would give me RAD power
easing my day to day operations, the way I like it to be. I'm new to
PHP ( coming from ASP background ) but I'm loving it though it is
tremendously different.
I am thinking that this library I'm working on, day in day out, may

[wp-hackers] coding standards and practicality of use

2012-03-10T17:27:01Z

I am trying to build a new framework that would give me RAD power
easing my day to day operations, the way I like it to be. I'm new to
PHP ( coming from ASP background ) but I'm loving it though it is
tremendously different.
I am thinking that this library I'm working on, day in day out, may
prove useful at the end - not just for me bit also for some other

[wp-hackers] GSOC 2012

2012-03-09T19:41:50Z

Hi,
I am Samiran Raj Boro pursing BTech (CSE) in Gauhati University. I am
interested to submit proposal to WP this year in GSOC. I looked for this
year ideal page for GSOC, but could not find it. I can find the last year
idea list. Is the list yet to be published?
Any suggestions for me please.
Samiran

[wp-hackers] Posting google news as blog posts

2012-03-09T19:19:31Z

Hi
using google news search and wp apis I have made a plugin that allows
admins to post google news in their blogs without even logging inside the
admin panel.
The plugin is in initial stage. I welcome you all to test this and provide
me feedbacks.
Here it is: [link]

[wp-hackers] Percona Server and WordPress

2012-03-08T21:26:03Z

Has any one tried running Percona Server on their WP configs?
[link]
It is a drop in replacement for MySQL and has impressive stats. They
brag about being some 40% faster than MySQL InnoDB
[link]
(I do note that this stat comparison is from 2010 and MySQL 5.5.8 and

[wp-hackers] GSoC Dates in the Southern Hemisphere

2012-03-07T22:21:14Z

Hey everyone,
This is aimed mainly at those who have been in GSoC in the past;
specifically those who use the southern hemisphere semester dates.
I'm in Australia, and I'm wondering how hard it was to participate in
GSoC when it starts overlapping the start of the next semester. As far
as I can see, there'd be about a month overlap (semester starts in July,

[wp-hackers] Programmatically add a Navigation menu and menu items

2012-03-07T13:44:16Z

Hi,
I need to, through API functions, define a new Navigation menu (
[link]), select it in the current
theme, then insert a few Pages as menu items. This is to be done for
instance on a theme activation.
First of all, I've been unable to find much documentation about that: have

[wp-hackers] How to make a role inherit anther role's capabilities?

2012-03-07T02:47:50Z

Hello,
When creating a role I would like it to inherit the capabilities of an
other role .
Is that possible?
Regards

[wp-hackers] SXSW party

2012-03-06T17:10:48Z

If you'll be at SXSW this year, RSVP to come to the WordPress party on
the 12th! Snacks, booze, WordPress people, what more could you ask for?
No SXSW required, just an RSVP.
Also, if anyone wants to volunteer at the booth to help people with
their sites/answer questions, get in touch with Rose
(r...@automattic.com), who is coordinating the booth.

Re: [wp-hackers] Gsoc 2012

2012-03-06T06:11:14Z

Hello all, Myself Avinash Jain pursuing B.Tech in CSE from IIIT-Hyderbad. I
am very much interested in android development. I have built many
application on android. Can any buddy please tell me how to start
communicating with wordpress mentors

[wp-hackers] sending mail wnen post author changes

2012-03-04T10:03:52Z

Hi,
I need to send a notification email whenever the post author changes.
One way I thought of is saving the current author in a custom field on
pre_post_update and then checking for change on post_save.
I was wondering if there is a better more elegant way.
I know that pre_post_update is fired in the right time for me to check, but

[wp-hackers] HyperDB - worth the trouble?

2012-03-03T22:54:49Z

Hi fellow hackers,
I'm moving host and I'm bringing 20+ website under one install using
Multisite. I've been thinking all the time of using HyperDB plugin to give
each site a database. I'm don't want to point all the hits in one
databases, even though none of the site has massive traffic. I don't think

Re: [wp-hackers] wp_dropdown_categories and multiple selections

2012-03-03T18:48:13Z

David,
There's a ticket on the track discussing this very topic:
[link]
In your case, I'd echo scribu's sentiment and ask why not just provide a
list of checkboxes as is done with the Categories metabox? UX for a
multiple-select dropdown is awful.
Drew
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[wp-hackers] GSOC 2012

2012-03-02T17:54:49Z

Hi folks,
I'm a student from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. I'm hoping to apply
for GSOC project in 2012. When I look some projects which you have
proposed, there were some interesting ideas. I hope that your organization
will proposed new projects in this year too. I have done some Android
projects during past few years and hope to choose an android project from

[wp-hackers] wp_dropdown_categories and multiple selections

2012-03-02T17:38:22Z

Building an awesome widget :-) which includes wp_dropdown_categories
for one of the options and wanted to add the option to select multiple
categories and looking at
[link]
doesn't appear to be possible.
Trying to build a widget that shows posts with thumbnail and excerpt

[wp-hackers] canonical not enforced

2012-03-02T15:57:10Z

Hi,
I recently added a url redirect to my site (unfoc.us for [link]).
[link] is the canonical - and if I put vanilla unfocus.com the
normal cononical enforcement works. For some reason unfoc.us does not
get properly redirected to to the canonical url - not even if I use a
shortlink (I have permalinks enabled).

[wp-hackers] anyway around wp hanging on install?

2012-03-02T15:48:43Z

I came across an issue recently, if you don't have sendmail, exim, qmail, or
any smtp server installed, it hangs on the 2nd step where its trying to
send out the welcome email.
Anyway around this if the user/server doesn't have mail installed?
The install itself gets installed, it just hangs for about 5 mins while

[wp-hackers] Using Live Database with Development environment

2012-03-02T00:12:14Z

Hello!
I have the following situation which I am trying to resolve and am looking for some assistance with a strategy to do so.
I have:
1. A production WordPress site that is being edited very frequently.
2. A development WordPress site that needs to make use of the production sites database.
I would like to setup the development server to make use of the same db so when edits are made to the prod or dev enviroment all data is in sync.

[wp-hackers] using different templates with in one wordpress installation.

2012-03-01T21:28:10Z

Hi everyone,
I have live wordpress installation for public view,
and development server wortdpress installation. I keep two different databases.
I need a solution for using two different templates within the same worpdress installation,
Does anybody know how implement that ?
Tnaks,
Dmitry
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[wp-hackers] Changing the TwentyTen menu into a horizontal one :(

2012-03-01T04:28:33Z

Sorry if in wrong place, I'm trying to change the TwentyTen menu into a horizontal menu (child theme).
I came up with this (change #access to #nav if traying):
[link]
We set colors classes such pink, green or blue in top menu itens and works like the pics below. The current subcats stay in the screen when browsing their posts, almost ok, but doesn't works if no colors classes is set.

[wp-hackers] apply_filters() in an if statement?

2012-02-29T20:38:41Z

Hello,
Sorry in advance if this type of question belongs on the forums...
I am hacking a theme, and they have something like this (abbreviated):
[code]
if (option('foo') || apply_filters('baz_baz', '') ||
apply_filters('bar_bar', '')) {
$bar_bar = apply_filters('bar_bar', blah, blah);
$return = apply_filters('baz_baz', blah, blah);

[wp-hackers] Changing post "redirect" after save

2012-02-29T12:14:57Z

I'm developing a custom plugin for a client.
The plugin has CTP of question that includes the answer as a metadata.
The question is plublished using a public form and wp_insert_post while the
actual site authors can answer it (edit the proper field)
One of the requirements is that once an author answered a question, he will

[wp-hackers] No direct script access allowed

2012-02-28T22:47:47Z

Hi,
When writing ExpressionEngine plugins, there's this at the top:
if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
Could I include something similar in a WP plugin?
Just curious.
Thanks!
Micky
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[wp-hackers] sql injection protected included?

2012-02-28T17:52:04Z

Hi,
I was looking at this plugin's file[1] and I was a bit surprised about
it not using wpdb->prepare() for escaping user input in db queries.
I've tried to abuse this (proving this plugin contains a mistake and fix
it), but failed.
It seems that WordPress is using it's own version of magic_quotes()

[wp-hackers] Disable/ Stop "auto-draft" posts

2012-02-28T15:48:34Z

Hello people!
Is there a way to disable "auto-draft" posts?
When I enter to post-new.php page, WordPress creates a post record in
wp_posts table, with status "auto-draft". Even if the post is not saved, WP
keeps the record created.
I think it's bad....
I really appreciate any comment about it...

[wp-hackers] 20 000

2012-02-27T20:13:58Z

I would like to congratulate to everyone, especially to Ryan who committed
20 000 changeset. Small step for WP, huge to the community.
Congratulation !!!!!
See : [link] and
[link]

Rename the wp-admin directory

2012-02-27T08:48:54Z

Hi list members,
I stumbled upon this Q on WPSE<[link]>.
I found it interesting, but never tried it myself, so I have no starting
point to help this guy.
1) Is it actually possible to change the /wp-admin directory name?

[wp-hackers] mysql ssl connection?

2012-02-26T07:24:43Z

Hello all,
I'm working on a setup where Apache and php is installed on one server
while mysql is configured on a second server on the same network. I
have been able to get mysql setup to use ssl when connecting to the
database.
My question is, how would I go about getting wordpress to connect to
the database over ssl?

[wp-hackers] edit_posts_per_page for media?

2012-02-24T18:32:04Z

A filter like this for the media library to view per page?
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[wp-hackers] Idea- Rethinking Wordpress theme editor

2012-02-24T18:00:28Z

I am Ankur Anand, a student from India.. While working on the theme for my blog, i thought of an idea to provide a 'Design in the Browser' approach to designing or customizing a Wordpress theme.
The idea is to use a Firebug ([link] Inspect ([link]) interface to make changes to the CSS of the elements loaded, and then upload the changes back to the server. The main idea is to provide a tool which lets us edit the CSS Live in the browser and then save the changes.

[wp-hackers] Help with mime types

2012-02-24T13:40:11Z

Hello people!
I need to allow *.SWF* file upload in my WordPress instalation for my
banners system.
I have tried this (without success):
function new_mime_types($mimes) {
if( ! isset( $mimes['flash'] ) ) $mimes['flash'] = 'application/
x-shockwave-flash';
return $mimes;
add_filter('upload_mimes', 'new_mime_types');

[wp-hackers] Search wordpress.org/Codex bookmarklets

2012-02-23T01:46:36Z

Howdy,
I did a quick search but could not find any utility bookmarklets for
searching the Codex, so I wrote these:
<[link]>
Simple stuff... I'm sure someone else has done this already... Anyway,
I thought I would share just in case others find it helpful.

[wp-hackers] register_sidebar()

2012-02-23T00:32:26Z

Hi,
I'm new to WP but I have a few PHP skills and I am hacking on a theme
called PageLines.
With that said...
I'm creating two new "sections" to display a top and bottom
leaderboard for ads. These sections will be NOT in the sidebar. :)
I'm at the point in my code where I use:
register_sidebar()
Would I still use the above method even if my section/widget content

[wp-hackers] Looking for guidance on building on top of another theme

2012-02-22T22:49:13Z

This may be a bit of a stretch for wp-hackers but I can't think of (or
find) a more relevant place to pose this question.
About 3-4 years ago I built a couple themes based on Sandbox. Instead of
depending on Sandbox as a parent theme, I included Sandbox into my theme
development area using an SVN external reference. This worked well, my

[wp-hackers] prefix vs postfix - pros and cons

2012-02-22T18:55:42Z

when building a framework of library functions, and you need to make
sure your function and variable/constant names will not get mixed up
by people's custom code, which way would you go? prefix your
functions?, or postfix them?
I'm building a library of php functions ( expected to be around 200
functions or so ) to ease my day to day operations and I need to adopt

[wp-hackers] Taking over URL space

2012-02-21T09:58:28Z

I was wondering whether someone could give me pointers in the right
direction. I'm not after a complete solution! I was just hoping that
someone with more knowledge of wordpress could tell me if I am heading
in the right way.
I wanted to write a new plugin which returns metadata about posts in a
variety of different ways. To do this, I need to use various parts of

[wp-hackers] Seeking WordPress-Apache conf that allows for dynamic subdir-to-site creation

2012-02-21T04:03:42Z

[link]
$50 USD (via paypal.com) goes to anyone who can solve this (without
requiring Apache config changes for newly-added sites/WP installs) by
6pm EST Fri, Feb 24. Thanks in advance.
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[wp-hackers] get_posts and new wp_query at same place and custom field

2012-02-19T19:06:35Z

Hello,
I have a modified category.php using get_posts and new wp_query, not really if this is right.
get_posts() is getting and listing posts with meta_key and orderby meta_value etc working fine.
new wp_query get posts as usual but I'm trying to exclude the ones with empty meta_value. I tried everything and that just don't works. If I set to get a post with meta_value=2, works ok, but no meta_value='' or the _wp_zero_value, or meta_compare.

[wp-hackers] Taxonomy query returns posts when term does not exist

2012-02-19T12:11:25Z

Is there are way to stop WP_query from returning posts when the term used in the 'tax_query' portion of the query does not exist?
I'm querying against the slug field of multiple taxonomies. All works as expected when the term exists in any of the taxonomies. However, when the term used does not exist, WP_query omits the tax_query and continues to return the latest 10 posts.

[wp-hackers] home.php and trying custom php

2012-02-19T02:18:47Z

Hello,
I make home.php and put this code;
<?php if(1==2){ echo "Custom Hello World"; } else {
include('index.php');
I expect index.php comes, but its not opening-running only blank page
coming.
Anyone know what code will be work in this case?
Thanks.

[wp-hackers] publish_post and scheduling posts

2012-02-18T14:31:58Z

Is there a reason publish_post wouldn't fire for a scheduled post? Is there a different action to hook into?
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[wp-hackers] Quick question about sanitize_file_name

2012-02-17T20:53:20Z

I've been trying to generate filenames for some uploaded files using
sanitize_file_name, and come across some weirdness when the string passed
to sanitize_file_name has curly quotes or apostrophes - they don't get
stripped out, which causes errors when using them as HTML entities.
Is this expected behaviour, or should the list of special characters be

[wp-hackers] The Loops plugin - feedback needed

2012-02-17T16:28:34Z

I just released a new version of the plugin The Loops and would like to get feedback from the community.
The Loops allows you to query the posts (and postmeta) table and display the result in your theme without writing any php code.
In short, it is an UI wrapper for WP_Query. (It is a would-be Drupal Views for WordPress ;)).

[wp-hackers] wp_editor() media uploads

2012-02-16T19:04:11Z

Hello all,
Just a quick question about the new wp_editor() function in WordPress 3.3.
I've implemented it into a few plugins and I've noticed that if a user is
not logged in they don't see the "add media" button. Is this intentional?
Looking at the documentation on WordPress.org, it seems that it should be

[wp-hackers] Following authors...

2012-02-16T01:06:21Z

Any suggestions on how I could create a plugin or integrate a function in
place of the loop to follow users, much like is done in micro-blogging
sites.
Any suggestions on the functions that will be used etc.
Any suggestions would be appreciated and code examples would be awesome! :)
Here is a suggestion from Stack Overflow: Thoughts?

[wp-hackers] Too much translation files

2012-02-16T01:23:05Z

Before suggest this in Ideas, I want to ask you, there's no way to avoid plugins and themes to send all translation files with it?
I noticed that some themes and plugins comes with a bunch of translation files (i.e polldaddy) why not sent only the one matching the locale? At least for when downloading through WP panels.

[wp-hackers] WordPress Books

2012-02-15T12:42:01Z

Are there any upto date WordPress Books, that cover the settings API and that!
I have a plugin that's a bit bloated in size for what it does and want
to streamline it and reduce the amount of code contained within it as
its the settings API, and the validation checks that I would say are
approx 70% of the code.

[wp-hackers] security maintenance and hack cleaning

2012-02-14T16:41:26Z

Hi all,
I'm looking for some suggestions on how to help clean and prevent hacked
wordpress installs. These take too long for me to do myself, and there
seems to be a level of specialized knowledge you need to do it well
anyway, or else the hacks just come back. I've been taking a look at
VaultPress's Premium service - but I don't know how robust that is.

[wp-hackers] track activity of user engagement in plugins

2012-02-14T15:43:57Z

I'm developing a commercial plugin where I would like to track the
user engagement, namely the following metrics would be nice:
- how much time has the user spent playing with my plugin since plugin
activation ;
- what is the normal usage of the plugin (once a month? once a week?
once a day?) ;
- while navigating through the plugin does the user go back and forth

[wp-hackers] Paged Comments and Memory Usage

2012-02-14T12:33:34Z

Ran into an interesting issue.
Moved a very popular domain over the weekend from one virtual
dedicated server that was struggling to a new one (Centos 5.6, control
panel Virtualmin).
On the old server (same basic setup) I'd changed various PHP and MySQL
settings, on the new one I'd not made any changes from the default

[wp-hackers] is it possible to change the_title halfway into the processing of a page/post?

2012-02-13T21:22:22Z

you may find it weird, actually very weird, but is the following possible>
load up a post or page into the admin panel and place something like
this in to the editor;
<?php
//assume exec-PHP already active
$current_page_url_here = get_current_url();
echo "<a href='{$current_page_url_here} ?var1=val1'>click me</a>";

[wp-hackers] How to show comments on posts by a user.

2012-02-09T20:31:24Z

How can I show comments on the posts of a specific user in order of the
comment date?
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards
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[wp-hackers] Category & Tag Function to update count

2012-02-09T20:19:40Z

Hey everyone,
I know there is a function that I believe the category and tag ID are
passed through when ever ones is added or removed from a post. I've looked
through the core and can't for the life of me find the function. Does
anyone know the function I speak of and/or where I might locate it.
Thanks in advance.

[wp-hackers] Problems with reference to $wp_roles->roles

2012-02-09T15:35:51Z

I've run into problems with some code that uses a foreach loop on
$wp_roles->roles - the array of roles in the $wp_roles global.
Worked fine in my testing but caused all sorts of problems for some other
users of my Facebook Tab Manager plugin. The code I originally released
failed to check for the existence of the array, and people got PHP errors

[wp-hackers] How to familiarize with Code Base ?

2012-02-09T14:57:02Z

Greetings to all ,
(My Apology, if this is not to be asked here )
I have been learning php for an while and is in an good position in it. I
have choosen WordPress as my first real world php project( To familiarize
with php standards and be part of an leading blog engine) for study.
I have by this time knowledge in plugin writting ,but I would like to get

[wp-hackers] Expensive meta query - Is there a better way?

2012-02-09T11:57:33Z

Hello,
We're running a multiple meta query lookup in WordPress - however the DB
query most be expensive as it's result in very slow (20/30 second)
response times in PHP with only 300 posts (total) in the DB. Query below.
Is there a better way of doing the below? Essentially if $value is equal
to key1 or key2 or key3 or key4 or key5 (the keys are numbered

[wp-hackers] register_post_type

2012-02-09T05:02:49Z

how I can filter the register_post_type results by post_author?
like this:
if(curent_user_can('author')){
add_filter or samething like a callback function that aggregate
a WHERE post_author=n
}
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[wp-hackers] Getting Media all media uploads by author

2012-02-08T19:12:36Z

Hi;
I was wondering how I could get all media uploads by author with the URL
(w/ thumbnail), title, and perhaps the caption and description. I'm sure
this is possible, just can't find out how to do it. :p I would like to use
this on the authors.php page.
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards
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[wp-hackers] Upload avatar in the "New user" page

2012-02-08T01:02:01Z

Hi all,
I would like to upload the avatar of a new user directly in the "New
user" page, so avoiding to go back to "Edit profile" page and use the
plugin User Avatar [link]
Did anyone already implement this feature?
Thanks

[wp-hackers] Changing term IDs

2012-02-07T18:41:53Z

We have a few different taxonomies that share terms — for example, Maine as
a category and as a region. However, when we created the regions we didn't
name a few of them exactly as they should have been, so the slugs got
messed up (State of Maine as a category with the slug maine, Maine as a
region, so the category slug is maine and the region slug is maine-2). I'd

Ajax requests, admin-ajax.php and the WP_ADMIN constant

2012-02-07T04:02:20Z

I'm currently developing an app that needs some ajax requests. Suddenly I
found myself in a weird position: I couldn't make any requests from my ajax
callback function. Everything loaded fine, the request was sent via
jQuery.post() and the response was `0`. As I made the request from inside a
class, I tested if I could hook the callback from outside and it worked.

[wp-hackers] Getting the entire HTML page generated from WordPress

2012-02-06T18:58:59Z

Hello everyone,
I'm trying to intercept the entire HTML page generated on a page load in
WordPress. the_content() is not enough as I need some filtering in the meta
tags, footer, sidebar etc.
I've been looking for some filters and the HTTP API, but nothing seems to
work on a page basis, i.e. post-filtering of every element in the entire

[wp-hackers] ajax hanging

2012-02-05T22:01:42Z

Has anyone experienced any issues with an ajax request taking forever on
some hosts?
On localhost, and a few other servers my code works fine.
But on one freebsd box (php 5.3.10, apache 2.2)
The ajax itself works, its just very slow to complete.
Curious if anyone else has run into this issue and what the problem may be?

[wp-hackers] Attachments medadata for custom headers/backgrounds

2012-02-05T15:03:32Z

Do we need to generate attachments metadata for custom headers and
backgrounds? If yes why?
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[wp-hackers] Just a basic "how can this be accomplished?" question.

2012-02-05T13:43:45Z

Hello,
could you please help me by supplying a short sketch for a plugin that
performs the steps described below?
What I need is just a short list of steps that are required. Something
in the form of:
1. do this to accomplish....
2. use this function for that...
3. do/use this because...

[wp-hackers] Regarding GSOC

2012-02-04T19:36:01Z

I got to know about this mailing list from [link]
I have made a small wordpress plugin present at
[link]
I am looking for a mentor and a project.
Could any one help me out ?
Thanks and regards,

[wp-hackers] Paginating a Gallery? Possible?

2012-02-04T01:29:41Z

Anyone have ideas on the best way to introduce pagination into a gallery that has too many images to show on one page?
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[wp-hackers] New image sizes for old files

2012-02-04T00:44:02Z

I know how to add new image with add_image_size and use them, that is ok, but how to rebuild the images sent before the new size?!
Thanks,
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[wp-hackers] Problems setting publication date with newPost and perl WordPress::XMLRPC

2012-02-02T15:44:12Z

Hi folks,
I'm trying to use Leo Charre's WordPress::XMLRPC perl module to create new
posts that have publication dates in the past. (I'm going to import some old
posts.) Everything works fine except setting the publication date. No matter
what I do, the publication date is always now, instead of the date I specify.