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Automatically add a character to field in edit post page

Here is one idea: You could try to fire the change event of the #location-address (for example) input text field when the page has loaded: function custom_jquery() { echo “<script>jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#location-address’).on( ‘change’, function( event ) { console.log(‘debug: on change fired!’); }); jQuery(‘#location-address’).change(); });</script>”; } add_action( ‘admin_head-post.php’, ‘custom_jquery’ ); if your editing page is post.php. You … Read more

What is the best way to hook a rewrite function for certain php code when plugins are updated?

There is no clean solution to this, because task is, well, dirty. 🙂 You should really be making these modifications in a proper ways. If I absolutely had to do this (and even than probably for specific plugin and not at scale), I would look into maintaining my changes as vendor branch in version control … Read more

Automate the installation of postfix on Ubuntu

You can use pre-seeding for this, using the debconf-set-selections command to pre-answer the questions asked by debconf before installing the package. For example: debconf-set-selections <<< “postfix postfix/mailname string your.hostname.com” debconf-set-selections <<< “postfix postfix/main_mailer_type string ‘Internet Site'” apt-get install –assume-yes postfix

When a user registers, create a page from an existing template with their username as the page name

First off, it sounds like you might be able to solve your underlying question using BuddyPress. If you simply want to make an actual WordPress page if a user registers you can do that using the user_register hook. The hook receives the newly created user ID. This code example should create a page with the … Read more

No result update a custom field using wp_schedule_event

It think that your problem is the you are passing the post ID as url parameter to facebook API: $url = get_the_ID(); Also, as get_posts return an array of post objects, you could use this code: $posts = get_posts(array(‘numberposts’ => -1) ); foreach($posts as $post) { $url = get_permalink( $post->ID ); $fbcount = json_decode( file_get_contents( … Read more

On install, automatically create page and set it as front page

First of all you should use register_activation_hook, this hook runs when a wordpress plugin is installed. I would also replace the call to the $wpdb for inserting post with wp_insert_post. wp_insert_post returns the post ID on success and this can be used to update the option for both page_on_front and show_on_front. function wp_install_defaults( $user_id ) … Read more

Automate configuration after new/hosted installation

This sounds like a perfect use case for WP CLI, all you need is SSH access, which many major hosts now provide. Many of the features you are asking for are already provided out of the box. For others you should be able to create your custom WP CLI commands. Some examples from the doc: … Read more

Automatically generator a WordPress installation on my subdomain

You’ll want to setup a Multis-site network – https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network If you know your way around code what you’ll need to do is use the wpmu_create_blog() function – https://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Functions/wpmu_create_blog – to create a blog whenever a user registers. What I would recommend would be a front-end form so when someone registers they can enter the name … Read more

Automatically Add Page Links to Nav Menu

Turns out is_plugin_active is defined in wp-admin/includes/plugin.php so it’s only available within the admin unless I call it. I needed to add include_once( ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin/includes/plugin.php’ ); so my final code was as shown below which I also tidied up a bit too. add_filter(‘wp_nav_menu_items’,’add_about_page_to_menu’, 10, 2); function add_about_page_to_menu( $items, $args ) { include_once( ABSPATH . … Read more

Automating WP application directory creation (domain name passed as a variable argument)

Ok, I just checked the WP CLI documentation. There are 3 important steps: Download WordPress: (I would use it with the options –path and –locale, but those are optional) wp core download Create a proper wp-config.php: wp config create –dbname=… –dbuser=… –dbpass=… –dbhost=… Install WordPress: wp core install –url=… –title=… –admin_user=… –admin_email=… Now there are … Read more

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