Call external API in wordpress based on user input

s is a reserved keyword, you cannot reuse the URL parameters and query variables used by WordPress itself. This issue is unrelated to the API request code. Because your form has an input with the name s, the request is interpreted as a search request. As no posts were found in the WordPress search, you … Read more

cURL request to plugin repository fails 403

Thanks to the WordPress forums someone answered that this only works via PHP if you set the UserAgent to a browser. $ua=”Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.A.B.C Safari/525.13″; curl_setopt( $cd, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $ua);

Error: Can´t access facebook comment plugin admin page

I had to change the plugin file to make it work. I think it can help someone and even the plugin’s author should consider making these changes. on class-admin.php, create this function at the beggining (can be line 9): function loadXmlByCurl($url){ $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $xml = … Read more