Options table – where does my values go?

There is indeed an options table (wp_options / prefix_options). You can the find full details on that table here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description#Table:_wp_options Options are meant to be globally accessible (not tied to individual posts), and you only need to know the option name/key. You can access that table and its values with the following functions: <?php $your_option … Read more

Local host to server import problem

A Google of wordpress wxr pulled up this link as the first result: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-to-wxr-issue which suggests to If you paste the following line into your export file after the Language defining line in the section near the topyou should be good to go: <wp:wxr_version>1.1</wp:wxr_version> But I would strongly advise against this approach based on the … Read more

Datatabase error: Commands out of sync

This seems to be a problem with “orphaned SELECT statements”. It is described here in more detail. One solution would be to create a temporary table and modify my_acquireuserpasswd to save data to temp_table BEGIN DECLARE passwdtemp VARCHAR(64); DECLARE temp VARCHAR(4000); START TRANSACTION; SELECT id, passwd INTO uid1, passwdtemp FROM users WHERE name = name1; … Read more

Creating a “forum” – showing last post or last commented post

You can add the standard taxonomy joins to the query: global $wpdb; $cat_id = 79; // Whatever. $sql = ” select wp_posts.*, coalesce( ( select max(comment_date) from $wpdb->comments wpc where wpc.comment_post_id = wp_posts.id ), wp_posts.post_date ) as mcomment_date from $wpdb->posts wp_posts JOIN $wpdb->term_relationships AS tr ON wp_posts.ID = tr.object_id JOIN $wpdb->term_taxonomy AS tt ON tr.term_taxonomy_id … Read more