Editing the permalink manually would be the safest route. If you’re comfortable using phpMyAdmin, you could create a MySQL query to update them all in one batch. Slightly more work than auto-assigning a slug, but it doesn’t require a lot of coding to try to re-calculate the slugs. update wp_posts SET post_name=”new-slug” WHERE post_name=”old-slug”; (You … Read more
Don’t run a new query for your CPT at every iteration of the main Loop. Pull it once, outside the Look with ‘posts_per_page’ => 4 then increment it as you go. In other words: $counter = 1; $loop = new WP_Query( array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 20 ) ); $inner_query = new WP_Query( array( … Read more
You can gather the post id(s) from the first loop in an array and then use post__not_in arg in the second loop. $exclude = array(); if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); //first loop $exclude[] = get_the_ID(); … //second loop $second_loop_args = array( ‘showposts’ => 3, ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘category_name’ => … Read more
The RSS feed has all the items in a fixed order(latest to oldest). In this case you can save the date & time of the last post you created, as an option & when you read the feed again, you can check the time previously saved to know which of the posts in the feed … Read more
Copying Custom Meta Values from existing post to a duplicate post
Is “WP SEO” = “WordPress SEO by Yoast”? If so, the plugin has some tags for you: %%page%% – Replaced with the current page number (i.e. page 2 of 4) %%pagetotal%% – Replaced with the current page total %%pagenumber%% – Replaced with the current page number Just look at the bottom of the page wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_titles, … Read more
Don’t use an && like that. And don’t use query_posts() in the first place (It’s meant for modifying a query, not performing a separate query!) Instead, do your first selection, then pull out the IDs of the posts in that selection and pass them into the second query. $fruit = get_posts( array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 3, … Read more
You can hook ‘save_post’ or ‘wp_insert_post’ (both executed the same in wp_insert_post()) to check for autosaves and notify the author(s) accordingly. The checks that I would do would be to check that the author of the autosave (aka, revision) and the new autosave are not the same, check that the post title is the same … Read more
You can update a posts type using wp_update_post: $my_post = array( ‘ID’ => $post_id, ‘post_type’ => ‘winner’, ); wp_update_post( $my_post, true ); // check if it failed and tell the user why if ( is_wp_error( $post_id ) ) { $errors = $post_id->get_error_messages(); foreach ( $errors as $error ) { echo ‘error: ‘.esc_html( $error ); } … Read more
I’m not entirely sure you can do this with a single query in MySQL as you can’t delete from tables which you reference in a sub-query. I would actually recommend doing this using wp-cli and using the WordPress API to delete the duplicate posts (which will also delete any post meta and associated term references): … Read more