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How to display only feautured/sticky listings on the homepage

First, I recomend you to use pre_get_post hook for your purpose. If you are going to use only the new WP_Query in your theme, it has no sense that WordPress run a query before it gets your theme becuause it would be a extra work that will be discarded. Using pre_get_posts we can alter the … Read more

User levels and post visibility

Creating a post from data returned from HTML form

I worked it out and re-wrote the code: jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery(‘#createacostume’).submit(function( event ) { event.preventDefault(); var aForm = jQuery(this); var bForm = aForm.serializeArray(); bForm.push({name: ‘action’, value: ‘myAjaxFunction’}); jQuery.ajax({ url: ajaxurl, type: “POST”, data: bForm, success: function(resp) { alert(“Thank you for your post. We will review it and approve it shortly” + resp); }, error: function( … Read more

A friend wants to make a comment on one of my articles, she has to be logged to wordpress?

In wp-admin, Settings » Discussion. [Uncheck] Users must be registered and logged in to comment Your friend, as well as any anonymous user can post comment now without login.

Query posts and return XML

How to display links in specific page

You can either create a custom page template, or just add the code to your regular page.php: if ( is_page( ‘your-page-slug’ ) ) { echo ‘your links’; }

how to show single post in a custom template

In most templates, the file single.php is used to display a single post. So you can use the code from the subpage template file in single.php to style a single post.

Exclude the first ‘n’ number of posts of a tag from home page?

A in your example, you have access to all the WP_Query Object query_vars (see [here])1, you could use the post__not_in query_var in your query. It takes an array of ids as a parameter. So first you query for your posts tagged ‘highlighted’. While displaying them, you would add all their ids to an array like … Read more

Admin – create custom post status and display above table

You can use the answer given here: How to add a quicklink to the Posts Admin Published|Scheduled|Trash menu For e.g. Stephen Harris answered the same question to add an extra menu item for displaying today’s posts. add_filter( ‘views_edit-post’, ‘wpse_add_my_view’); function wpse_add_my_view($views){ global $post_type_object; $post_type = $post_type_object->name; $y =mysql2date(‘Y’, current_time(‘mysql’) ); $m =mysql2date(‘m’, current_time(‘mysql’) ); $d … Read more

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