I am a front-end developer working full time with Event Espresso. This is by far the most flexible, feature rich platform if you want to work exclusively with WP without using an external booking manager. Its relatively easy to develop for.
Try one of these: Shortcodes Pro Shortcode Manager Shortcode Exec PHP Shortcoder
Here’s a quick shortcode I put together for your functions.php file if you want to use it as a starting point. or it can be converted to a plugin if you prefer. function wpse27961_show_tagged_posts( $atts ) { extract( shortcode_atts( array( ‘tags’ => ”, ‘number’ => 5, ), $atts ) ); $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => … Read more
rename your intro html file front-page.php and put it in your template directory, then create a dummy ‘intro’ page in WordPress and set that as your front page.
I don’t think so, but you could use get_children and get the attachment(s) of those posts: $attachments = get_children(array( ‘post_parent’ => $post->ID, // <- source post ‘post_status’ => ‘inherit’, ‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’, ‘post_mime_type’ => ‘image’, ‘order’ => ‘post_date’, ‘orderby’ => ‘DESC’, ‘numberposts’ => 5, // the number )); Then get the image URLs: $size=”post-thumbnail”; // … Read more
You can use the built-in WordPress attachments to accomplish this. You can add a template file called image.php to your theme. The best place to start is open the Twenty Eleven theme and look at the file named image.php. It has all of the code you need to get started. I would then use the … Read more
You can use the default Gallery Shortcode within your post by specifying a post ID. ID == the original post the photos to which the photos are attached. Hope this helps.
You should install the plugin and reference it inside of a function within your theme. Be sure to check to make sure the expected plugin/function actually exist. Then you can just use it’s functionality as you see fit!
Since you’re just checking to see if they are a logged in use, you can just use the is_user_logged_in() function to check if they are logged in and if so, display the download link, if not, don’t display the download link.
Justin Tadlock has shown how to add custom fields to enhance User Profiles. http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/09/10/adding-and-using-custom-user-profile-fields – this can be further hacked to assign values as mentioned in your question.