I am working on redesigning a fairly high profile blog. I suggested the best way to do that, rather than mockups, is to just upload their wordpress export to a new WP install on domain. I periodically (twice a year or so) pull the database from our primary site and import into a dev site. … Read more
And I want to add an additional condition that the post be in a specific category. Any thoughts? JOINing on the taxonomy tables is complicated. Unless you have a good reason why you have to use SQL, don’t. Use WP_Query. $args = array( ‘post_type’ => $holder, ‘numberposts’ => -1, ‘post_status’ => array(‘publish’), ‘category_name’ => ‘cat-slug’, … Read more
If you look in the database in the $wpdb->postmeta table you will see a meta_key named _wp_old_slug. That is how WordPress tracks slug changes. By editing the database directly you bypassed the mechanisms that create that postmeta entry. You never want to edit the database directly if you can use WordPress Core functions instead. Attempting … Read more
I don’t know what “wp vip” wants or needs, but you should be loading files by means of get_template_part, locate_template, site_url, or home_url and I am guessing that using one or more of those is what the “scan” wants. It is hard to say exactly which since you posted only the error and not the … Read more
Since you want to test out your existing(local) site on the server; you have done the right thing as far as I can see on pastebin except for 1 thing On step 10 – you replaced all occurances of “localhost” with your servername. Instead you should have replaced it with servername/directoryName. If you still have … Read more
According with WordPress documentation, if a user ID is pass to the wp_insert_user() function, it will try to modify the user with that ID if exists, but a new user won’t be created. You sould store the facebook ID as user_meta.
#require_once(‘../../../wp-load.php’); #global $wpdb Comment those lines.. you don’t need it. $wpdb quite global in any template file. BTW, do you really want’s to make such form in your tempalte file? 0_o
The WordPress function checked() just compares two given values and – if the comparison is true – adds the checked attribute to a radio button or checkbox. The second parameter is default true so you can use the PHP function in_array() if you have to check if a given value is in an array like … Read more
I was able to solve my own problem, while its was a very struggling effort.If your database is corrupt, but you want to restore your site. Just open your database in a any program like TextEdit, Notepad++ and make sure you copy the basic databases mention here in a new database, that will at least … Read more
You do not need to be messing with the database connection. WordPress provide a database object called $wpdb. It is not really clear what you are doing. Your title reads “help me select thumb”, but your code is actually pulling a lot of different post statuses, not thumbnails. In fact, your code does not have … Read more