Did you change your database settings in wp_config.php and copy your database to your local machine? You’ll also need to use a text editor to search a dump of your database for any URLs pointing to the live site before importing it locally if you haven’t done so already.
Change SQL get_results to search for posts with custom term in custom taxonomy
Fixed this by setting max_allowed_packet = 16M in my.cnf and restarting mysql
How to update widget_text in the wp_options table
comment_karma This field is used by a few plug-ins to help you manage your comments. There are a few good articles explaining its exact use floating around on the Internet. But you should note that this field is actually just not used. As Mark Jaquith said once, it’s a “there if you want to use … Read more
I’d be interested to validate what you’re looking at there to make sure it really is that table. MySQL shouldn’t behave like this unless you actually have 12Gb in a row somewhere. But if you can run SQL on this database, maybe you want to try MySQL OPTIMIZE TABLE command which asks MySQL to see … Read more
Hi @berkleebassist: It’s hard to verify your issue without admin access to your site and your database but I can give you some direction that might help. There are two functions in /wp-includes/taxonomy.php that update taxonomy term count: wp_update_term_count_now() and _update_post_term_count(). They are located (in WordPress v3.0.1) at line 2454 and line 2049, respectively. Both … Read more
Don’t use settings api for this. Register a custom post type, ‘Joke’ see register_post_type docs add_action( ‘init’, function () { $labels = array( ‘name’ => ‘Jokes’, ‘singular_name’ => ‘Joke’, ‘add_new’ => ‘Add New’, ‘add_new_item’ => ‘Add New Joke’, ‘new_item’ => ‘New Joke’, ‘edit_item’ => ‘Edit Joke’, ‘view_item’ => ‘View Joke’, ‘all_items’ => ‘All Jokea’, ‘search_items’ … Read more
You need to check your mysql database charset and website charset. They should be same – utf8.
You might be better off using the update_option_ action instead. This will allow you to write to your file after the option has been updated (as apposed to before). If another plugin hooks into pre_update_option_ and alters the value after your plugin has saved it then you will have saved an incorrect value. I would … Read more