Sketch/Concept To make requests to remote/external APIs, use the WP HTTP API. More in depth examples/details can be found in some of my answers here. Then simply add an admin page with add_submenu_page() or add_menu_page() or the related functions. Finally add a script via wp_register/enqueue_script() on the admin_enqueue_scripts-hook. There you fire an ajax (search archives) … Read more
The important step is to assign a unique ID to every item you get from the source. Hopefully the JSON feed already includes one, but otherwise you will have to somehow create one yourself based on the JSON content. Once you have the value, you store it as a meta value of the post being … Read more
You have basically tree ways. WP API (JSON) Feed (XML) XMLRPC API I think the first solution via WP JSON API should be your prioritized way. The WP API will implement inside the core of WordPress in the next releases. Currently you can use it via plugin. I think, this is the standard for the … Read more
The simplest way to create identical websites on different domains is to use the plugin Multiple Domain. This allows you to have a single WP install with one database serving two domains. Next step is to copy this DB to a Chinese server, where create a script to copy DB and files from the main … Read more
I think there are 2 solutions for you problem. The first is rely on P2P functions like each_connected (see this as example) and retrieve the connected ‘Person’ after running a taxonomy query for ‘Activities’. Maybe this solution can be easier, faster and straightforward. Second solution is what you says in your question: apply the taxonomy … Read more
ACF won’t load from a custom JSON location
Based on your question, I am not exactly sure where your local build sits right now. This answer is assuming you are starting from scratch, but have a copy of a working wordpress website on a live web server, and working on a mac. You need to install a web server onto your local computer. … Read more
Once you have same db, you will have same users, so offcouse the password for the user ‘admin’ (please do not use ‘admin’ as username) will be the one setted in database, and of course is the same for the 2 sites, once they shared the db. However you can create users that can login … Read more
If you are using Pantheon for hosting it turns out to be trivial to do this as a test (they call it dev), stage (they call it test) and production server are built into their platform along with tools to manage moving data and files around. Plus with Pantheon you get easy but optional Git … Read more
I suggest if you want to use BuddyPress always, just ignore/remove WordPress profile informations and you can: Redirecting User to Their Buddypress Profile when They access their wordpress profile(wp-admin/profile.php): http://buddydev.com/buddypress/playing-with-buddypress-and-wordpress-some-codes-for-the-site-admins/