How to manually delete post from database without causing conflicts?

Drop this into a file in your plugin directory and you should be able to do this from your WP installation using a query string. /* Plugin Name: Delete Specific Post Description: Rid the post forever! Version: 0.1 Author: WPSE License: GPL2 */ add_filter(‘query_vars’, ‘delete_post_query_var’); function delete_post_query_var($vars){ $vars[] = ‘delete_post’; return $vars; } add_action(‘admin_init’, ‘manually_delete_post’, … Read more

Moving Post Title out of Block Editor

When using the block editor, Is there a way to move the post title out of the block editor interface? No, but you could hide it with CSS and put a post title box in the post sidebar. You could even override its edit component with a blank component. But this would be problematic and … Read more

Getting fatal error when using manage_media_columns filter of WordPress

It looks like the issue is coming because of the conflict of the hooks (manage_media_columns and manage_{$screen->id}_columns) because when we manage_{$screen->id}_columns used for media it becomes manage_media_columns and started conflicting. The same details are mentioned in the documentation link of the hook. Link: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/manage_screen-id_columns/#more-information

Display posts on a custom page from only a specific category?

The argument isn’t category, it is cat. Your query fails because you are using an argument that doesn’t exist. $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’ , ‘orderby’ => ‘date’ , ‘order’ => ‘DESC’ , ‘posts_per_page’ => 6, ‘cat’ => ‘3’, ‘paged’ => get_query_var(‘paged’), ‘post_parent’ => $parent ); $q = new WP_Query($args); if ( $q->have_posts() ) … Read more

Remove Prefix from Custom Post Type Slug

There is a simpler and lighter solution: First: set the slug argument for your custom post type to “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/” when registering the post type: add_action( ‘init’, ‘register_my_post_type’ ); function register_my_post_type() { $args = array( //The rest of arguments you are currently using goes here ‘rewrite’ => array( ‘slug’ => “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/” ) ); register_post_type( ‘my-post-type’, $args … Read more

Display related posts that match as many similar tags as possible?

I had the same idea and wrote a small little plugin to help me do this. function get_pew_related_data($args, $post_id, $related_id) { global $post, $wpdb; $post_id = intval( $post_id ); if( !$post_id && $post->ID ) { $post_id = $post->ID; } if( !$post_id ) { return false; } $defaults = array( ‘taxonomy’ => ‘topics’, ‘post_type’ => array(‘post’), … Read more

Install an external plugin from within the current plugin?

This solution should do the job for you. http://tgmpluginactivation.com/ The solution is meant for theme developers to package to download, automatically install and activate multiple plugins that are either packaged with a theme, downloaded from the WordPress Plugin Repository or downloaded elsewhere on the internet (perhaps a private repository. The code of the solution can … Read more

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