Return $post_id when DOING_AUTOSAVE?

The ‘save_post’ action was added to core in 2.0, and has always been an action. Looking through the current autosave procedures, it doesn’t appear to call the ‘save_post’ action directly at any time. So the short answer is, no. There is no reason, and has never been any reason, to return any value on this … Read more

Setting default category for display

I’m not sure you are understanding what a ‘category page’ is doing; for example your news page: http://papermepress.com/?cat=1 this is pulling out all post with the categoy ‘news’ which has cat id equal to 1. depending on your needs there are two possible things you can do. 1 – if you simply want all posts … Read more

Multiple item layout with one query

As @MridulAggarwal already stated, it’s a pretty basic PHP task that you’re confronted with: $wpse69584_posts = get_posts( array( /* Your Arguments */ ) ); echo $post[0][‘post_title’]; echo isset( $post[0]->post_excerpt ) ? apply_filters( ‘the_excerpt’, $post[0]->post_excerpt ) : apply_filters( ‘the_content’, $post[0]->post_content ) ; // etc. Or if you’re using a loop, it’s even easier: global $wpdb; if … Read more

Add default content to post (for specific category)

default_content runs when a post is loaded into the editor, actually. You can check for categories when the post is saved, but you’d want the save_post hook, probably. You want to check the $_REQUEST global. add_filter( ‘default_content’, ‘my_editor_content’ ); function my_editor_content( $content ) { global $_REQUEST; if (isset($_REQUEST[‘post_category’]) && in_array($some_category_id,$_REQUEST[‘post_category’])) { $content = “My html … Read more

WP_Query breaks pagination

If you want to stay with a new Wp Query, as in your example, changing your $allsearch name for the query variable to $wp_query should do the trick. Looks like the pagination functions are expecting that variable name for the query… So, try that…

Displaying posts limit: can’t get pagination to display [duplicate]

Try reviewing this page on the codex. Using your above template, I would suggest the following: <?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => ‘5’, ‘author’ => get_current_user_id(), // Removes a few lines of code 😉 ); $author_posts = new WP_Query( $args ); ?> <?php /* Author has posts? */ ?> <?php … Read more