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Is Post-Form Resubmission somehow prevented in WordPress 4.2.2?

If you’re refering to WP internal forms: WordPress has an built in security mechanism called “wp nonces” (https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Nonces) – that’s an unique hash generated for every WP-form. Every Backend code should check for the according nonce to make sure that The form submission wasn’t done from outside (usually attacks or bots) The form submission was … Read more

Is there a function to search for a wildcard value when calling a shortcode?

The issue I worked out was that I’d previously built another form on my staging site using CCF, I went through phpmyadmin posts and deleted everything ccf-based then rebuilt my form and since there were no previous forms this form was assigned the id 122 and my template now works 🙂 It would still be … Read more

I created a custom form in HTML/CSS and now I need it to submit … should I create custom PHP or is there a plugin I can use?

The full answer is that you could code it by hand or use a plugin. 🙂 Many form plugins, however, generate loads of HTML and CSS already, and due to the fact that styling forms is a huge pain (even for a CSS geek like me), you’d be writing tons of CSS overrides to overcome … Read more

Dynamic form variables for post meta

got this working! here is an example of how to set up the form. <script type=”text/javascript”> jQuery(document).ready(function($) { $(‘.metabox_submit’).click(function(e) { e.preventDefault(); $(‘#publish’).click(); }); $(‘#add-row’).on(‘click’, function() { var row = $(‘.empty-row.screen-reader-text’).clone(true); row.removeClass(’empty-row screen-reader-text’); row.insertBefore(‘#repeatable-fieldset-one tbody>tr:last’); return false; }); $(‘.remove-row’).on(‘click’, function() { $(this).parents(‘tr’).remove(); return false; }); $(‘#repeatable-fieldset-one tbody’).sortable({ opacity: 0.6, revert: true, cursor: ‘move’, handle: ‘.sort’ }); … Read more

WP_Filesystem usage within a block of code

Reading and writing to a file is going to be dicey. You are going to be fighting with file permissions if you save anywhere but the wp-content/uploads directory (and it looks like you want to save to the plugins directory). If you have sufficient control of the server, you may get this to work by … Read more

How to set up an auto delete post?

I will say, I don’t exactly understand your words “when a front-end sets a date”… I’m assuming wp-admin setup. Go find a post expiration plugin. There seem to be more than a couple of these out there. The plugin I’ve used ws “Post Expirator” Awesome tool. You can create a start posting and stop posting … Read more

Displaying errors on the front end from my plugin

Nonce fail after second submit attempt

Not 100 % positive but my understanding is that a Nonce expire as soon as you use it. It can only be used for one transaction. So it seems to be logic that it expire after the first call. You should probably return a new one with the response of your first validated request and … Read more

Accessing values entered via form – try again

You are right the action part is the directory to the execution script file. You can not use the static directory path like that, it should be used with get_home_path(); like $path = get_home_path(); then action = ‘<?php echo $path.”wp-includes/tests-form.php” ?>’; More: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_home_path

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