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WordPress prompt checklist before publish?

Create new plugin and add this as your the content: <?php /* Plugin Name: [CR]TestDropIn Plugin URI: http://bayu.freelancer.web.id/ Description: A barebone plugin to test whatever wordpress API you want to test Author: Arief Bayu Purwanto Version: 0.0.1 Author URI: http://bayu.freelancer.web.id */ add_action(‘admin_head’, ‘xxx_admin_hook’); function xxx_admin_hook(){ ?> <script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript”> jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery(‘#post’).submit(function() { //alert(‘Handler for … Read more

How to set up sub-categories for author pages?

You should consider to make use of an author template. It will allow you to control how the author page is displayed, so you can add what you pictured into there. You can then register a rewrite endpoint to create the multiple areas of the author page. In the template just check on which “subpage” … Read more

Sub posts and non unique post_name

Hi @jonasl: I asked a clarifying question but I’m going to go ahead and at least start to answer. The function in WordPress core that controls post slugs and adds numbers to them in order to force them to be unique is wp_unique_post_slug(). In WordPress 3.0.3 you can find it on line 2530 in /wp-includes/post.php. … Read more

Is there a WordPress Event Manager that links with your user database?

There are a couple suggestions I have for you: If you are a programmer and you can adapt this code that associates users with custom post types you might be able to get what you need. You may also want to look at membership plugins as they may give you some of the functionality you … Read more

How to show custom message once on plugin activation?

The easiest way would be to check for an stub get_option something like $run_once = get_option(‘run_once’); if (!$run_once){ //show your custom message here // then update the option so this message won’t show again update_option(‘run_once’,true); } hope this helps

WordPress Multi Site Best Practice

Multisite does not have cross-posting built in. you can do what you want with one of these: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/threewp-broadcast/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multipost-mu/

Maintaining synced staging/production WP sites

You might be interested in this Q/A in the FAQ category: How to: Easily Move a WordPress Install from Development to Production? Server mirroring/migration is a pain because there are so many pieces that might (or might not) need to be synced. PHP code (core, plugins, themes) is easy enough to keep straight. But when … Read more

ensure user can only be logged in on one computer at a time?

A simple way could be hooking into the login process and check if the user is already logged. There is a ‘wp_authenticate’ action that runs just before loggin in an user.

WordPress Plugin as ‘Library’ From Abstract Application?

The way I’d go about this is build your standalone application but build into it a bullet proof API that will allow others and yourself leverage the power of your application. Whichever way you look at it there will be a fair amount of coding to be done each time you visit a different CMS … Read more

Custom Fields and performance

In the case of custom fields- if you fetch them in a single query to the database, fetching one or ten is not going to differ much, it’s the same relatively simple query in both instances. If you were to do a lot of complex meta queries on those fields you’d definitely see a performance … Read more

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