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? 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
Try putting this plugin in your wp-content/plugins folder and then activate it: <?php /* Plugin Name: WPSE53245 – Set Tweet category posts as Aside Plugin URI: http://http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/53235 Description: Set Tweet category posts as Aside Version: 0.1 Author: Ashfame Author URI: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/1521/ashfame */ add_action( ‘save_post’, ‘wpse53235_set_post_format_aside’ ); function wpse53235_set_post_format_aside( $postID ) { if ( has_post_format( ‘aside’, … Read more
Not exactly what you are asking for, but very close. There is a concept of ‘dropin’ plugins that exists primarily to override or add to core functions The dropins will always load. So one ftp’s up wordpress including whatever plugin files you want that will create your default environment. These should be in the top … Read more
You could use ajax and the admin_footer-post-new.php hook. The sql would vary depending on whether you want the highest or most recently published order number. The following returns the highest published order number + 1: function wpse155926_set_menu_order() { $ret = array(); if ( check_ajax_referer( ‘wpse155926_set_menu_order_post’, ‘nonce’, false /*die*/ ) ) { global $wpdb; //last published … Read more
Where is the content coming from? You can easily write PHP code that will create pages, but the content has to come from somewhere. If the content already exists, say in a database that you own, then you can code a process to take the data from a table/record and convert it into a post/page.
I did something similar a while ago. I’m not sure deleting a post is a good solution, maybe you can change only the post status to a custom one called Expired for example. But for an example, the code below will delete the post. First create a daily cron job: add_action( ‘wp’, ‘delete_expired_coupons_daily’ ); function … Read more
Having the “shortest” script is a fairly pointless goal here I think, besides for entertainment purposes. But if you are looking for something that is very minimal and easy to understand, you can check out Bash scripts like my own free SlickStack project on GitHub, which is geared toward LEMP stack newbies. Keep mind that … Read more
You can use the CSV Importer plugin to import your spreadsheet into posts or even better a custom post type say “school” import school name as post title and the rest as custom fields. Then create a single-school.php file in your theme directory and pull out the name and other fields and you are done. … Read more
You’d write a script to loop through a file you created with the data, and process each line one at a time. Inside the loop you’d have code like the following. You would, of course, replace my example values Scotland, Glasgow, its description and its slug with variables representing the data for the row being … Read more