Why not utilize two hooks, one before post saved and one after post saved? content_save_pre : Function attached with this hook will remove image from content and store it in session/transient. save_post : With this hook you will have id of post. Function attached with this hook will set featured image for the post with … Read more
Caution: very mac/linux/unix centric thoughts ahead. Includes a lot of command line fu. Put All the Code Under Version Control I like git. Mark Jaquith has some good suggestions on keeping an entire site under version control using git and submodules for the WordPress core. You could also put plugins in as git submodules. The … Read more
WordPress has a handy function called post_exists() which allows you to find an existing post by its title, content, and/or date. It returns the post ID on success or 0 otherwise. In your case, you can use $post_id = post_exists( ”, ‘{“member_id”:33}’ ) to find the post you’re looking for. Note: That function doesn’t check … Read more
Your sites look nothing alike. Open those three links – and there is not a single element that binds all three sites together. Network of sites can benefit from consistent looks. You could use global “about” page that covers all of your activity and not just bits in context of specific site. Consider building landing … Read more
You can use the_content with an high prioriety (lower number). add_filter( ‘the_content’, function( $content ) { return ‘Hello World ‘.$content; }, 0); You can even use negative priority: add_filter( ‘the_content’, function( $content ) { return ‘Hello World ‘.$content; }, -10); Note that this will apply everytime ‘the_content’ is used, no matter the post type, or … Read more
By default, WordPress adds paragraph tags to category descriptions. Stop this by adding the following to your functions.php file // Remove p tags from category description remove_filter(‘term_description’,’wpautop’); Simple and easy (codeless). Thank you
Typically you use widgets or custom post types but in reality these solutions can be unfriendly to clients. WordPress still revolves around the idea of a post based loop so doing traditional “content blocks” that you might find in other frameworks can be difficult. Fortunately there are plugins that are pretty good in this area. … Read more
First off: The ID of a post or page is always an integer. “about” is either your about page’s title, slug or both. Including the following in your “homepage’s” page template or in the sidebar combined with conditional tag(s) will display the about page’s content: <?php // query for the about page $your_query = new … Read more
Per the OP’s answer within their question: With your help and some Googling, I put together a shortcode that returns the value of any url parameter. Here it is: //THIS IS A CUSTOM SHORTCODE TO DISPLAY A PARAMETER FROM THE URL function URLParam( $atts ) { extract( shortcode_atts( array( ‘param’ => ‘param’, ), $atts ) … Read more
You can use Advanced Custom Fields plugin. It’s pretty easy to use and very powerful, so it’s the best choice right now, I guess.