Yes, WordPress replaces all the resources. No, there is no way to get the updater to merge changes. Even in theory, I doubt you could do that. Even the big version control systems– SVN, GIT– ultimately depend on user judgment. That suggests the only reasonable answer I can think of. You should not be hacking … Read more
You can check get_post_meta before args, Example: // Get post meta $game = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘sd_game’, true); $game_series = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘sd_game_series’, true); // Check which meta if( !empty( $game ) ) { $key = ‘sd_game’; } else { $key = ‘sd_game_series’; } $posts = get_posts(array( ‘numberposts’ => -1, ‘post_type’ => ‘lyric’, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ … Read more
This is a hard one to answer without opinion entering into the equation. Generally speaking, having a staging or development site to merge the two into is best practice. You can either build this site on your own server (as you’re currently trying) or on the client’s server (where you may be able to work … Read more
How to merge the content of posts that have the same title?
Guide to migrating a WordPress development site to a running live site
Easiest way would be to just export the one WordPress site, and then import it into the new site. Don’t try to get too complicated with this.
Curiously WordPress does recognize multiple plugins in a directory, but results can be highly unstable. It also wouldn’t be possible at all if plugins had overlapping file names inside. I wouldn’t recommend you attempt this by literally putting them together in a folder and going through installer. You don’t quite cover your situation in detail. … Read more
Your theme is dynamically loading a template part. Look here: $home_layout = get_post_meta($id, ‘home_layout’, true) ? get_post_meta($id,’home_layout’, true) : ‘style1’; get_template_part( ‘inc/templates/homepage/’.$home_layout ); Now look in your folder at inc/templates/homepage/ and you should see the various template parts. Those templates parts are where you’ll want to add your new code (for the about page).
How to merge two WordPress databases with the same structure?
NOTE: XML Importer will not work for this task as the amount of data is too large. This tool is by far the simplest solution if there’s any way you can get it to work. Is it absolutely “too large” for the importer, or just limited by file upload / PHP execution time limits? If … Read more