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To expound on Chris’ answer, the AJAX call would look something like this in your functions.php file: add_action(‘wp_ajax_add_favorite’, ‘add_favorite’); function add_favorite(){ $post_id = $_POST[‘postID’]; $nonce = $_POST[‘nonce’]; if(!wp_verify_nonce($nonce, ‘wpnonce’)) exit; if($post_id): $favorites = get_user_meta(get_current_user_id(), ‘favorites’); if(in_array($post_id, $favorites)): $response=”Already in favorites.”; $success = false; else: if(add_user_meta(get_current_user_id(), ‘favorites’, $post_id, false)): $response = “This post was added to … Read more

Extending the user profile [closed]

I second what @Viruthagiri said. You can also use the plugin Theme My Login if you want to hide the real WordPress control panel from your users and only show them their own profile/edit profile page, themed just like your site. Best of luck!

Custom user role still showing up after deletion, ideas?

You could try running this once in your functions.php $wp_roles = new WP_Roles(); $wp_roles->remove_role(“your_role”);

Save custom field types with this function…?

How do you know that the checkbox value is not being saved? I’m guessing that it is saved to the database; however, in your code, you do not have any method of setting the “checked” attribute for the checkbox to “checked”. As such, you will not see the boxed checked. You’ll need something like the … Read more

Is it possible to build social networking website using WordPress?

WordPress can handle large databases and high traffic quite well. I think one good example of this was seeing some WordPress sites holdup to high traffic when the recent iPhone announcement happened. This really comes down to how well you code your theme/plugins, how you manage caching and your server configuration. WordPress will not be … Read more

Prevent Registration Where Role is None?

Hmm – if they have no role, it may be that they are coming in through some other way and adding that action will not help. What plugins do you have active ? also are you sharing a wp user database with another system?

How can I add authors in WordPress and assign them a picture?

there are a bunch of plugins that adds this functionality to wordpress, this one seems pretty neat, User Avatar

Mass Update User Profile Checkbox Options

update_user_meta() is what should assist you in doing this. Feed what get_users() returns and update the meta data for each and every one of them with the required values. Assuming that you are going to store a serialized array, your custom query will have to unserialize each result in order to perform a search. I … Read more

Unexpected problems after importing WP data

One of the reasons could be that while exporting/importing the data the server debug or ‘WP_DEBUG’ must have been true for warnings/errors. Hence they must have cropped up in the export file.

Plugin privelages for “editors”

You can do that easily using this plugin But I think it might be better if you create a new role, then copy roles from “Editor” using the plugin above, and then allow the new role to access those plugins you wanted.

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