You were starting on the right track but you had several bits of WordPress hookage you still needed to add. An approach I like to use is to encapsulate a call to get_calendar() in a class so we can use the low-level ‘query’ hook but only use for it for the one call. So I … Read more
1.: Yes (Slugs differ then, but no need for you to re-categorize each post) 2.: As you wrote: “Information Technology”. As a rule of thumb, Category Names should be between 2 and 26 characters, the actual length depends on your site and your needs as there is no hard nor soft limit to category length … Read more
Take a look at wp-pagenavi its a plugin which adds advanced paging navigation to your WordPress site just like you asked.
If the template is using the permalink when generating the posts, it retrieves all the categories for a given post and then grabs the first category it gets after sorting them by Id. I see two ways around this: If you want to recreate your categories with the preferred order, then you should be set. … Read more
Two plugins that i know: Rich Category Editor Category Description Editor but I haven’t tried them on the new 3.1 so check them out.
$recentPosts = new WP_Query(); $recentPosts->query(‘cat=-3’); //-3 makes sure it shows all categories except for ID number 3 while ($recentPosts->have_posts()) : $recentPosts->the_post(); the_title(); the_content(); endwhile; Would something like this Work?
Use category__not_in => array(7932) instead. http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Category_Parameters
How about get_query_var(‘cat’). I think that should get the ID of the current category.
Yep, I don’t think this is something you can easily do natively. Two ways that I see: Use posts_orderby to modify SQL request and order posts by post type, then just need to check so headings don’t repeat. Instead of looping through posts in order returned, take array of those and sort by post type … Read more
you can try a much less elegant but a working solution which is to get all of the users posts and count their categories: $query = new WP_Query(array( ‘author’ => $curauth->ID, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1 ) ); if ($query->have_posts()){ $u_cats = array(); while ($query->have_posts()){ $query->the_post(); $terms = wp_get_object_terms( $post->ID, ‘category’); foreach ($terms as $term){ if (is_array($u_cats[$term->term_id])){ … Read more