You should take a look into creating custom meta boxes to display the text fields in the admin & then save that data as post meta. There are many tutorials available online for this Once you have the information, you can put a get_post_meta call in your theme’s sidebar.php file & display the data there … Read more
At the end of your news.php, use wp_reset_query(). This will revert to the default query for that page. Hope this helps! Codex Function Reference for wp_reset_query()
So, everything seems to be set up correctly. The setting in your step 2 is everything that needs to be done. I won’t be able to help you without seeing how the theme’s template files are structured. The way it usually works when you apply the setting in your step 2 is that WordPress looks … Read more
Use remove_meta_box remove_meta_box( ‘categorydiv’, ‘post-type-name’, ‘side’ ); And hook it to ‘admin_menu’ as in the Codex. function my_remove_cat_box() { remove_meta_box( ‘categorydiv’, ‘post-type-name’, ‘side’ ); } add_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘my_remove_meta_boxes’ ); I am guessing a little at the first parameter–‘categorydiv’–, but that is what it looks like based on your screen shot.
You may use the Old Post Promoter plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/old-post-promoter/ This plugin promotes old posts by sending them back onto the front page and into the RSS feed. It does it randomly choosing an eligible post and updating the publication timestamp. The post then appears to be the latest post on your WordPress blog. “You down … Read more
Perhaps you could use scribu’s Posts 2 Posts plugin to relate a Custom Post Type called “Drafts” (or something else to avoid possible conflict with naming conventions reserved for Post Status). It’s a very powerful plugin, allows Posts to be related to other Posts. In this way you could bring in the content of the … Read more
You can use the function wp_set_post_terms to set a category before the post is published. You need to get the post_id by call the global variable $post and get the id by $post->ID. Here is a simple example. Change the id (2) to the id of your wanted category. function wpse_78701_add_category_before_post() { global $post; if( … Read more
This was addressed on the Minimatica website: http://www.onedesigns.com/support/topic/how-to-fix-issues-with-media-uploader-with-minimatica-in-wordpress-3-5 You will need to update your functions.php file as follows: In functions.php find this line (line 225 if you haven’t altered the file): add_action(‘init’, ‘minimatica_register_styles’); and replace it with — add_action(‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘minimatica_register_styles’); AND Then find this line (line 437 if you haven’t altered the file): add_filter( ‘ext2type’, … Read more
Basically, I am reading right out of the Codex page for WP_Query. You want a meta_query similar to this with an orderby parameter with the two values you want to order by. The first is dominant. $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘rating’, ‘value’ => 3, ‘compare’ => ‘>’ … Read more
Things to note: It depends on what type of page the query is happening If you’re logged in, private post status will be drawn in for example. Use a filter As the status is something that gets added to the WHERE clause, you have a pretty specific filter that you can use to alter the … Read more