as you seem to be using a page template, you can edit this even more and directly integrate the essential header and footer code into that template; have a look at this example I recently made up: http://pastebin.com/ZiteZrUX <?php /** * Template Name: Blank Page Template * * @package WordPress * @subpackage Twenty_Eleven */ ?> … Read more
I found this plugin that let me create custom options and set the value dynamically in my templates. Worked out fine http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-options-plus/
The way gravatar works is that it creates an MD5 of the email address and passes that to gravatar.com. If an avatar exists for that hashed email address, then it gets returned. If not, then it generates a random one based on the data in the hash. Essentially, it’s arbitrary. There’s code in there that … Read more
In your example.php file add this line at the top, this will enable all wordpress functions such as $wpdb, get_header(); etc. <?php require_once(‘LINK-TO-DIRECTORY/wp-blog-header.php’); ?> Recommended reading – Codex – Integrating WordPress with Your Website
If you are OK choosing which categories users can post to check out restrict categories. You can assign each user one or multiple categories that they can post to.
You can use the WordPress Exporter and Importer under the Tools menu in WordPress to have each person export their content to XML files and you can import each of the exported files. Know that the export/importer will merge the posts, but post_ids will get changed.
I think this Custom Field Template plugin will help you. Plugin site. Don’t worry about Chinese screenshots. If you set at least one Custom Field Template for one category, when creating post and check that category additional options will appear.
Technically, you should use WP’s built-in class WP_Query to pull the information and I am sure that will alone simplify your entire process.
The easiest way would be to create a page template. You would assign all 50 pages to your page template, giving each page it’s own title. Any content you want to be different on each page could be put into the page itself. Anything that you want duplicated on all of the pages, keep in … Read more
I’ve never used the theme, but the code seems to show that there is an option to hide the title. Line 23 of https://github.com/simplethemes/skeleton_wp/blob/master/skeleton/loop-page.php shows post meta for hidetitle. Look for a checkbox on the edit page maybe?