Changing my permalink structure – will new layout conflict with existing page?
I just tested it (briefly) on local test install and having static page at /page/ and pretty permalinks starting with /page/ doesn’t seem to cause any issues.
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How to insert current date/time in the content of a post?
You’re on WordPress.com, so there’s no way to add functionality that will allow you to do this. You could always type the date/time manually whenever you update it.
Tag link suggestion plugin
I ran a search on the wordpress plugin directory there are several options. Terms to Links looks like it should work for you. It automatically links to terms in your content to that term’s page. Can be used for tags, categories and custom taxonomies.
show posts names and links in the sidebar list as categories child
Well the simplest way I can think of is something like this… <ul class=”categories”> <?php $categories = get_categories(); //can add parameters here to swtich the order, etc; if(!empty(categories)): foreach($categories as $i => $category): ?> <li class=”category”> <span><?php echo $category->name ?></span> <?php query_posts(‘posts_per_page=-1&cat=” . $category->term_id); if ( have_posts() ) : ?> <ul class=”posts”> <?php while ( … Read more
Syndicated Posts when Updated Lose HTML tags
Yes, these posts are imported into my blog using a plugin called FeedWordPress. After doing a little more research, it looks like the formatting filters option needs to be set to “Expose syndicate posts…” instead of “Protect syndicate posts…”. If the posts are protected, and I choose the Visual editing tab in the posts editor, … Read more
Making pages also serve as taxonomies? Or give full pages to taxonomies?
There are a few choices to go with this. I’ve actually gone through the same though process you have been. It would be easy if WordPress let you link posts or custom post types together but in lieu of that, the hackery of WordPress developers must occur! The solution I went with in the plugin … Read more
Display types of posts in edit.php instead of All, Published, Scheduled and Draft
Why don’t you just take post_formats (will be introduced with wp 3.1 in near future). These contain asides (small posts), chat, links, video, audio and so on. In general you just got a new meta-box that allows you to select the format when posting. Behind the scenes post formats are just predefined custom taxonomies bundled … Read more
Get attachment next and previous by author only
Hi @Jeremy Love: Good question! And it’s a good question because there do not appear to be any hooks to allow you to write code to filtering by author. Sadly that means to copy their copy to make your own functions so you can make the required 1 line change (in this case, it’s ‘post_author’ … Read more
Post Navigation
you can use wp-pagenavi and set the “number of pages to show” to 3 so you will get [first] [6] [7] [8] [last] now if you just need the names of the post then you could do something like this: global $wp_query; //curent post $thePostID = $wp_query->post->ID; $my_query = new WP_Query(array(‘cat’ => get_query_var(‘cat’))); $count = … Read more
Number Unread comments/posts
I’ve got a similar problem scheduled and my favorite concept so far is this: add a custom taxonomy ‘archive’, containing userid’s as terms add an ‘archived’ button on each post, adding the user id to the terms and associating the post You can then use all the taxonomy goodness to only show non-archived posts and … Read more