You are using get_the_content() wrong, it can’t take a ID, which is what get_option(‘page_for_posts’) does return, and generally gets the content of the current post inside the loop, in which it has to be used. To get the actual content of that page you can do: $page_for_posts_id = get_option( ‘page_for_posts’ ); $page_for_posts_obj = get_post( $page_for_posts_id … Read more
Why not just create a few shortcodes for what you need? you can create columns for all kind of uses,, add this to your themes function.php file.. <?php function yourtheme_one_third( $atts, $content = null ) { return ‘<div class=”one_third”>’ . do_shortcode($content) . ‘</div>’; } add_shortcode(‘one_third’, ‘yourtheme_one_third’); function yourtheme_one_third_last( $atts, $content = null ) { return … Read more
Is there a clean separation between the WP tables involved with presentation vs content? I would say “no”. There is no clean separation. There is mostly-separation. Most of your content is in the post and taxonomy tables, and most of your presentation is the options table. But you also have things like sticky post IDs … Read more
As others figured already out: If you have third party plugins with custom queries, you’ll have a bad day! One solution might be caching your results. Template (e.g.: page.php) while (have_posts()): the_post(); global $my_cached_data; $post_id = get_the_ID(); /* * If you have single meta keys, this array_map function * makes them easy to access; otherwise … Read more
Your requirements slant towards using the_excerpt() with adding read more link by custom code: print 55 words – already this by default and adjustable via excerpt_length filter but react to <!–more–> – this already happens, auto-generated excerpt cannot be longer than teaser (part from start of post to <!–more–> tag) and if manual excerpt is … Read more
One option might be to export both XML files, merge them using a file merging tool like http://winmerge.org, delete all posts and replace with the merged version.
I always use the Theme Unit Test that Theme Reviewers use to evaluate themes for the Repo. It’s got pretty much everything you need to style/worry about. And if I need to create batch content in a different way, then I use WP Dummy Content
Actually, my recommendation would be to do things a bit differently. You can add a custom rewrite endpoint to WordPress to handle these files specifically. For example, the URL http://site.com/download-xml/the_filename would automatically download the specified file as an attachment. First, you need to add a custom rewrite endpoint to set this up: function add_endpoint() { … Read more
I use a plug-in called Post Word Count to sum the total number of published words across my entire site … then again, I’m the only author, so this is a pretty simple example. But you could start with this plug-in and add a filter that changes the query based on the author’s ID. Basically: … Read more
It’s not a book but I wrote a “25 Steps to Understand WordPress and it’s Terms” about a month ago in response to a question on the LinkedIn WordPress group and maybe copying it here will help? (Maybe I could every take these and turn them into a book for managers complete with screenshots; what … Read more