Well, this is definitely a little hackish but what I ended up doing was changing the action on the form to “[mysite url]/wp-comments-post.php”. Then I took advantage of a few action hooks in wp-comments-post.php to hijack that page: add_action(‘pre_comment_on_post’, array($this, ‘process_image_upload’)); And if anyone is curious as to how I wrote the process_image_upload function (which … Read more
It all depends on how you’re trying to do it. When it comes to filtering results, i usually setup the form to use $_GET and filter the results when the page loads again: if (isset($_GET[‘term’])) { $term = $_GET[‘term’]; } else { $term = ‘defaultTerm’; } if (isset($_GET[‘childterm’])) { $childterm = $_GET[‘childterm’]; } else { … Read more
You should be sending your header(s)/processing the request before the template loads. In fact, a hook was added specifically for this: template_redirect
Use the parent method to pass data back to your meta field. Create a JS function to handle the passing of data from Thickbox to the meta field: function foo_interstitial(data){ $(‘.form-field-selector’).val(data); } Add a submit handler to your thickbox instance that passes to the parent.foo_interstitial() function. $(‘.thickbox-submit-selector’).submit(function(){ var _value_to_pass = $(‘.field-to-pass-selector’).val(); parent.foo_interstitial(_value_to_pass); });
Try using the oEmbed API to grab the video image on the fly. Check out my answer here: Generating Thumbnails for video
I got custom fields working in the front end form linked in this post: How to use nonce with front end submission form? Here is the code used for the form page (custom page template): http://pastebin.com/YWyXL3jY Hopefully that will be of help to you with a bit of tweaking to use image URL’s instead of … Read more
Seems my form was using some value from the namespace of wordpress. If this problem happens to you, check what id/names you give to your inputs. If it’s too general, it might conflict.
Dadra, A bit off the WordPress topic, but you may want to consider using the US Census API to do your lookups. Integrating this into WP should be pretty simple, could be done by zipcode, city name, etc… and could be done with and AJAX callback all on one page. Example of what I think … Read more
This is not exactly a WordPress question, because you made an error in your form. Try adding name=”idea-outline” to your textarea, and you should be fine.
You’re probably missing some arguments. <?php wp_dropdown_categories(‘show_count=1&hierarchical=1’); ?> For more arguments, look here Codex