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
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
There are lots of ways to accomplish a daily picture blog so I’ll just give you how I’d approach it. If I wanted to set up a photoblog on WordPress I’d start with a Flickr account and leverage it (or if you don’t like Flickr for some reason you can also look at PhotoBucket, SmugMug, … Read more
I am not familiar with bbpress, but I think that first you need to get the forums in your site and then you need to loop through its topics to obtain the topic that matches your criteria of popular topics. You can search in the docs or source code to find the functions and methods … Read more
LOCAL For local aliases, it works best to define your path ahead of time in the config.yml. Then keep the variables pretty clean by only specifying the url to target the site. Sorting the output helps if you have a long list of sites since the default is by blog id (which we’re not using). … Read more
Holy schmoly shadowpress – what a risky idea. I imagine one could write a cron plugin to do it, BUT what a risk….Already the auto wordpress multi update feature makes it way too tempting to just hit the update button on a bunch of updates in one go. Recommended ‘safe’ procedure for system upgrades is … Read more
WP Cron jobs are not reliable as it needs someone to visit the site at the time the event should fire. If you need precise timing, you should use server cron jobs. Anyways, lets look at your code and what is wrong and we can fix it wp is a better hook to use to … Read more
I was inspired by your question to create a plugin that I’ve been kicking the can on for several months. I’m calling it Deprecation Checker. By default, it scans the plugin and theme directories (recursively) to find deprecated functions. The functions list is sourced directly from the WP deprecated files. It then outputs a nice … Read more
you got the first part right about using personal_options_update but to be on the safe side add edit_user_profile_update also. and as for sending emails within WordPress the best way would be to use wp_mail, So something like this: add_action( ‘personal_options_update’, ‘notify_admin_on_update’ ); add_action( ‘edit_user_profile_update’,’notify_admin_on_update’); function notify_admin_on_update(){ global $current_user; get_currentuserinfo(); if (!current_user_can( ‘administrator’ )){// avoid sending … Read more
Just hook the default delete_post handler for menus onto the trash action too: add_action( ‘wp_trash_post’, ‘_wp_delete_post_menu_item’ ); How simple is that!