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Validating Custom Meta Box Values & Required Fields

The easiest way is to add Javascript validation via the jQuery Validate plugin. Here’s the most basic walkthrough: Near your add_meta_box call, enqueue the jQuery Validate plugin as well as a JS file for your simple script: add_action(‘admin_enqueue_scripts’, ‘add_my_js’); function add_my_js(){ wp_enqueue_script(‘my_validate’, ‘path/to/jquery.validate.min.js’, array(‘jquery’)); wp_enqueue_script(‘my_script_js’, ‘path/to/my_script.js’); } Then in my_script.js include the following: jQuery().ready(function() { … Read more

Creating an Image-Centric Custom Post Type?

goldenapple’s initial answer gave me the jumpstart I needed to finish this up. functions.php Here is the complete code I’m using to add a new post type “header-image” and modify other admin screens accordingly: /** * Register the Header Image custom post type. */ function sixohthree_init() { $labels = array( ‘name’ => ‘Header Images’, ‘singular_name’ … Read more

How to make a text with hyperlink translatable in WordPress?

This is a very faceted issue. It combines inherent HTML content issues with whole new load of translation challenges, such as scanning for strings, translation process itself, and its verification. So we have to combine: Text (in translatable form) HTML markup (in hard to break, but preferably flexible form) URL destination (in secure and preferably … Read more

get_the_term_list without links in 3.1

wp_get_object_terms() returns the terms associated with an object (eg a post or a page or custom post) as text (normally in an array). From the Codex page for wp_get_object_terms() $productcategories = wp_get_object_terms($post->ID, ‘productcategories’);

How to remove a parent theme page template from a child theme?

Overriding that template would be much easier than getting rid of it. Just the way logic goes. I make no claim it’s efficient idea (late here), but this would get it nuked from edit screen: add_action(‘admin_head-post.php’,’remove_template’); function remove_template() { global $wp_themes; get_themes(); $templates = &$wp_themes[‘Twenty Ten’][‘Template Files’]; $template = trailingslashit( TEMPLATEPATH ).’onecolumn-page.php’; $key = array_search($template, … Read more

Plugin Form Submission Best Practice

Send the form action either to your homepage, or to a specific page URL. You can’t have $_POST handling within the template because you need to redirect after your process it, and redirect needs to be fired before any HTML output. // you should choose the appropriate tag here // template_redirect is fired just before … Read more

Best practices for localizing WordPress content?

The best way is without plugin – i set WP3.0 with multisite; the first blog is a dummy to rewrite the uesers to right blog with his language, a small script in the theme to rewirte ro the right language; i see in the browser-language of the users and rewrite; the second is the default … Read more

In Which Contexts are Plugins Responsible for Data Validation/Sanitization?

There are two concepts here: validation – making sure data is valid, i.e. an integer is an integer, a date is a date (in the right format etc). This should be done just before saving the data. sanitisation – making the date safe for its use in the current context (e.g. escaping SQL queries, or … Read more

Restrict custom post type to only site administrator role

register_post_type() accepts a parameter capabilities in its arguments. See get_post_type_capabilities() for possible values. From the comments: By default, seven keys are accepted as part of the capabilities array: edit_post, read_post, and delete_post are meta capabilities, which are then generally mapped to corresponding primitive capabilities depending on the context, which would be the post being edited/read/deleted … Read more

Can a custom post type have a Parent Page?

This should work: ‘rewrite’ => array( ‘slug’ => ‘about-us/our-people’), combined with: ‘has_archive’ => false, Make sure to visit the Permalinks settings page in your admin after you made the changes to flush the rewrite rules.

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