Since you want to test out your existing(local) site on the server; you have done the right thing as far as I can see on pastebin except for 1 thing On step 10 – you replaced all occurances of “localhost” with your servername. Instead you should have replaced it with servername/directoryName. If you still have … Read more
Have you seen the update_user_meta() WordPress function?
take a look at wp_term_taxonomy table you will see a column called taxonomy, categories has “category” taxonomy in the field for each category and tags has “post_tag” taxonomy, custom defined taxonomies are also working this way.
According with WordPress documentation, if a user ID is pass to the wp_insert_user() function, it will try to modify the user with that ID if exists, but a new user won’t be created. You sould store the facebook ID as user_meta.
After investigating, I realized that it was left over from some fields that I no longer used so I was able to get rid of them.
There are multiple ways to fix this. You can either remove the if-condition containing SHOW TABLES LIKE (remove lines: 117, 135 and 137, 157). That should work as the dbDelta function checks itself if the tables are already presend. Or you could just add some single quotes to the table names in the lines 117 … Read more
The WordPress function checked() just compares two given values and – if the comparison is true – adds the checked attribute to a radio button or checkbox. The second parameter is default true so you can use the PHP function in_array() if you have to check if a given value is in an array like … Read more
I was able to solve my own problem, while its was a very struggling effort.If your database is corrupt, but you want to restore your site. Just open your database in a any program like TextEdit, Notepad++ and make sure you copy the basic databases mention here in a new database, that will at least … Read more
The WordPress object cache isn’t a persistent cache, it’s meant to cache data within a single page load, so “as long as possible” will never be longer than a single request. Use the Transients API if you want to store your data across multiple page loads, or even simpler, just store it in an option … Read more
Don’t use SQL to retrieve values from the option table, use the options API. In addition to avoiding using wrong table names (as was pointed out in the comments) you will most likely get better performance.