There is nothing wrong with writing logs to a file, you just need to make sure you create a special directory for it and add .htaccess that will prevent listing, and probably deny all access to it from the web. There is nothing overly wrong with storing data in the DB provided you do it … Read more
I found the answer. This works fine. function row_count_shortcode() { global $wpdb; $user_count = $wpdb->get_var( “SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->daviddgl_wp1.SaveContactForm7_6” )+1; return “17ICLAA”.sprintf(‘%03d’,$user_count); } add_shortcode( ‘row_count’, ‘row_count_shortcode’ );
Thanks to @Milo I could fix it. The problem was, that the tags were not assigned to any post. display.php $tags = get_tags(array(‘hide_empty’ => false)); The hide_empty param do the trick.
In the class WP_Query, there is a hook posts_pre_query wich allow to set the result of a query before the DB call https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/4.7.3/src/wp-includes/class-wp-query.php#L2755
First of all, see this WordPress Codex page: AJAX in Plugins You don’t technically need to write a plugin to do what you want to do, but it is good practise to do so, especially for the kind of functionality you are building. (Building a database table, handling form data, submitting with AJAX, etc.) Check … Read more
There are 2 ways you could do this. The first would be by creating a separate template for each of the pages you want. This is if you’re going to change a lot of different aspects of the page for each of the 7 pages. A page template will include the header, footer, and sidebar … Read more
Since you mentioned that this is only happening on certain environments then a possible cause could be that those servers do not have the proper PHP extensions installed to handle parsing XML. Here’s a great Stack Exchange answer that outlines most (if not all) of the required extensions. Specifically, I would confirm whether or not … Read more
According to WordPress Codex about the template_redirect hook: This action hook executes just before WordPress determines which template page to load. So, you are redirecting the user to another page before the template is even loaded, which your form won’t load at all. You can use another hook which runs after template_redirect, such as wp_footer. … Read more
User roles aren’t stored in the user or user meta table, they have their own table, and they’re on a per site basis so reusing them isn’t so simple for setups like this. In your case it would be significantly easier to use a multisite install using subdirectories rather than subdomains, then all of this … Read more
In wp-config.php for your second site, define the following two constants: define(‘CUSTOM_USER_TABLE’, ‘yourfirstprefix_users’); define(‘CUSTOM_USERMETA_TABLE’, ‘yourfirstprefix_usermeta’); You’ll have to add some custom logic to your second site limiting logins by user role.