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The canonical answer is that themes are for visuals only, the rest go in plugins. In practice though, people bundle everything in a theme because it’s easier to sell a zip you upload to the themes folder. In the future it will be possible to have themes that contain little to no PHP at all … Read more

Select parent page and all its child page but exclude one specific child page

There are some issues in your code, e.g. $pages will always return an array, even where there are no results in which an empty array is returned, so if ( is_page() && $pages ) return true; does not necessarily mean that “we’re at the page or at a sub page“. Instead, it means, “as long … Read more

How to add testimonials with an image?

Make a new category called Testimonials then, in your theme folder add a new file called testimonials.php. Add this in the newly created file: <div id=”testimonials”> <?php $args = array(‘caller_get_posts’ => 1, ‘post_type’ => ‘testimonials’, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 5); query_posts($args); if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $image = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘testimonial-image’, true); ?> … Read more

Suggestions to prepare a site which is 90% based on a plugin that’s still on beta stage?

If you are not going to use a ready made forum platform like : SMF phpBB Vbulletin myBB Vanilla becuase that site is not all forum but also a forum and you want wordpress as your platform then i would suggest you look at SimplePress as your forum plugin which is very mature and is … Read more

Getting posts by taxonomy

I usually use the tax_query parameter: $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘my_cpt_name’, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ‘tax_query’ => array( array( ‘taxonomy’ => ‘uom_system’, ‘field’ => ‘slug’, ‘terms’ => ‘metric-system’ ) ) ); $results = get_posts( $args ); See http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Taxonomy_Parameters

SymmetricDS in dev + prod workflow?

I have done SymmetricDS synchronization with various content management sites using the wildcard feature to pick up new tables created by custom components. For example, you can put a trigger on tables named ‘wp_*’ and it will sync any tables that match. You can read about Using Wildcards to Sync Tables for more detail. In … Read more

Localhost wordpress access remote db wordpress website

WordPress stores site url and home url in database. And it can have only one value. The easiest way to do it, would be to change these options to localhost address. If you do so, you will be able to work on this WordPress on localhost, but remote installation won’t work (it will redirect you … Read more

Custom Post Types database persistance. Why not?

I don’t think there is definitive answer (there might be old discussion buried in some ticket), but I can offer some historical perspective. WordPress didn’t start with Custom Post Types. They were relatively late addition. While they were modeled after native post types, those still remain kind of special case. So the concept of such … Read more

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Creating one user access account for all the multiple sites

wp-insert-post execute from server?

Including code from other themes in child themes