Your best option is to get a random post author which is a user ID so here is a function to do just that: function get_random_author_wpa91320(){ global $wpdb; $id = $wpdb->get_var(” SELECT post_author FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type=”post” AND post_status=”publish” ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1 “); return $id; } And once you have that function in … Read more
The Automatic Sponsor Posts Injector: Here’s one idea based on my answer for the question: How to show Y number of custom posts after every X normal posts? I hopefully made it a little bit more useful here on Github, but it may be refined much more (future work). The SponsorPostsInjector class will help you … Read more
Late answer. has_archive applies only for the rewrite arguments. In Detail If has_archive is set to true, then the $archive_slug will get set to the rewrite[‘slug’] argument. If then a rewrite[‘with_front’] arg is set, then this one will get prepended. The result of this will then get added as rewrite rule: add_rewrite_rule( “{$archive_slug}/?$”, “index.php?post_type=$post_type”, ‘top’ … Read more
You can do this : add_action(‘admin_init’, ‘wpse_110427_hide_title’); function wpse_110427_hide_title() { if (current_user_can(‘subscriber’)) remove_post_type_support(‘post’, ‘title’); } This would hide title for subscriber. Replace ‘post’ with your custom post type
Post ID’s aren’t meant to be sequential. To number your posts sequentially, you’d have to use a meta field. There was discussion of this while back on this question: Change Permalinks Structure to a Sequential Number for Each Post? And the best answer for what you’re looking to do seemed to be a snippet of … Read more
Now that I have a better understanding of the issue, I would recommend using custom fields to sort your posts. You can have a custom field (e.g., “order”) and use it to indicate the order of your posts. You then need to use a custom query to order these posts when they are displayed. You … Read more
OK, so you have something like this: $new_tags = array( ‘tag1’, ‘tag2’, ‘tag3’ ); wp_set_post_tags( $post_ID, $new_tags ); If you want to add only tags that already exist, then you have to filter your tags array: $new_tags = array( ‘tag1’, ‘tag2’, ‘tag3’ ); $existing_tags = array(); foreach ( $new_tags as $t ) { if ( … Read more
When I look at WP::handle_404(), I think that the 404.php template will not be loaded, even if there are no posts, if: We are on the homepage It is a search It is a taxonomy term that exists, but has no posts attached to it (and it’s not paged) It is an author that exists, … Read more
Made a couple of tweaks to brasofilo’s example as we were getting hit with memory execution issues; one of which may be related to a possible switch_to_blog memory leak that has been impacting sites doing a lot of switch_to_blog calls (we would typically run around ~1000 or so when loading this dashboard widget.) Even with … Read more
I don’t have time to explain this in detail (I shall upon return) but in the meantime this should work for you, Answer updated with explanation as promised. WP Rewrite rules are like voodoo, I’m sure there’s more than one way to go about this, but here’s mine. Problem: Just to clarify your question for … Read more