Altered media sizes (in dash), not updating to existing images/posts
Altered media sizes (in dash), not updating to existing images/posts
automation
Scrape data from a website and post it on the blog
While importing from machine-readable formats, such as RSS is quite straightforward and usually has plenty of tools around… it is very different story with arbitrary HTML. If you are not up to code this from scratch, then closest semi-automated tool I know is Dapper – it can process HTML pages and according to rules that … Read more
How can I create podcast posts automatically from the contents of a particular directory?
I’ve created a very basic plugin for that now. Let me know what you think or if you have any questions.
Disable automatic content hyperlinking
WordPress does not automatically convert URLs to hyperlinks.
Is there any free (or cheap) software that can be used for testing WordPress functionality?
This isn’t really a WordPress question – more a generic web development issue. These are some open source tools that can be used for scripting and testing a web browser session. Selenium Cucumber Watir
Programatically Creating Initial WordPress Site
I’d highly recommend WP-CLI for such tasks. It is a tool that allows installation and configuration of WordPress on the command line. What you are trying could easily be done: wp core download wp core config –dbname=<dbname> –dbuser=<dbuser> –dbpass=<dbpass> wp core install –url=<url> –title=<site-title> –admin_user=<username> –admin_password=<password> –admin_email=<email> There are a lot of other commands that … Read more
Force update all posts in custom post type, no content changes
Force update all posts in custom post type, no content changes
How to add multiple existing users to a multisite site?
I’d try this with two steps. First, install the Multisite User Plugin or grab the useful bits from its code. Short version: It hooks into user_register and loops through each blog in a multisite, adding the user to each one with a preset role. Handy. Second, use wp-cli to import a CSV of users: wp … Read more
Plugin for automated upgrade of WordPress core and it’s plugins?
If you’re using the most recent version of WordPress, there are two ways you can update your plugins by just clicking a button (OK, maybe a couple, but it’s still really easy). Under Dashboard in your WP admin, there will an Updates option. Click on that and you should see something like this: Choose Select … Read more
Does wordpress allow me to add a php file to the root directory to execute custom scripts?
Does wordpress allow me to add a php file to the root directory to execute custom scripts? WordPress can’t prevent you from adding PHP files to the root directory, but there is no builtin functionality to load those files. You can load them yourself but if you are not careful they will load outside of … Read more