Yes, it’s possible. WordPress uses a relational database and you’re free to add tables to it. As a warning – you will need to create new functions/classes to work with your new tables. WordPress’ built in functions will probably not work with new tables. As a side note, new content types such as reports and … Read more
I had some trouble saving custom taxonomy fields, which I resolved in this WPSE post. I was using the options table to save my data, but the same solutions may apply for you too. Firing callbacks attached to create_{taxonomy} and edited_{taxonomy} were part of the solution.
I figured it out. Here’s the wordpress.org forum thread of me working through it.
I wouldn’t worry about doing a second query (e.g. using get_posts()). If you want to check if a post type has any published posts – you’re going to have to query the database. But reading a database is really quick – any noticable delay in your page load is more likely to come from extra … Read more
I don’t think it can be done that way, in class-wp-posts-list-table.php I found this line $this->hierarchical_display = ( $post_type_object->hierarchical && ‘menu_order title’ == $wp_query->query[‘orderby’] ); It’s not filtered and it directly depends on the unfilterable attribute “is hierarchical” and the post order set in the admin interface (edit.php). What you can do is to try … Read more
You could use a WordPress rewrite (as opposed to mod-rewrite) to solve the issue. function createRewriteRules( $rules ){ $newrules = null; $newrules = array(); $newrules[“catalog/?$”] = “index.php?page=xx”; $rules = $newrules + $rules; return $rules; } add_action(‘rewrite_rules_array’, ‘createRewriteRules’); You’ll need to flush the rules: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/flush_rewrite_rules Your page-catalog.php file could then sniff the original url and do … Read more
I’d use a custom table for this. Otherwise you’d have to have a lot of custom post types posts containing very little information. Your own table is easier to manipulate (and, god forbid, export should you want to use another high score solution).
As Kaiser suggested, the Metabox script available over at http://www.deluxeblogtips.com/2011/03/meta-box-script-update-v30.html propagates metadata to the database as individual entries instead of a serialized array. I suppose it is ultimately a matter of preference between how you want your data to be stored in the database. I have appreciated using Dimas’WP Alchemy plugin up until now, but … Read more
Try adding this to your wp-config.php file: define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]); define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]); That will define your site URL as whatever happens to be in the browser location bar. Very useful for moving a site from server to server without actually changing the siteurl and home location in the database. Just don’t leave … Read more
You can also use the import/export tools available from wordpress itself. Maybe try a clean install and import your data from there. It will be a better and more clean migration. Your import/export Tools will be in Admin->Tools. If you are looking to import a MySQL database from a MySQL dump, (filename.sql), you can do … Read more