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Plugin to set all Posts in a certain Category to a certain Post Format

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

Repeatable configuration package

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

Automatically set page order on create page

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

Automating Page Creation

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.

Posts to expire (deleted) after a date

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

Shortest possible shell script to install WordPress on Nginx server?

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

Best way to automate the page/post publication process?

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

How to add terms to taxonomy with wp_insert_terms?

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

Downsizing Many Large Images Attached to Posts, in Bulk?

Great question! WordPress lacks some of the higher level imaging management features that would make it file maintenance like you need so much easier. The core WordPress team has been threatening to add enhance image features for many versions; eventually they might actually do it! Until then you’ll have to use a patchwork of plugins … Read more

XMLRPC and Underscored custom fields

Playing with XML-RPC and underscored custom fields: Let’s say we want to set the featured image to a given post with $remote_post_id. We want it to be the attachment with ID equal to 300, so we want _thumbnail_id to be 300. Here are three methods how one could achieve that: Method #1 – Using post_thumbnail … Read more

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