How can I get post text from all posts on a WordPress news site?
Will using mysqldump get you the results that you want? mysqldump -u username -p dbname wp_posts > myposts.sql You will have to handle the images separately.
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How to fetch posts that are stored in the different table than the default table (wp_posts)?
Try below code global $wpdb; $result = $wpdb->get_results($wpdb->prepare(“SELECT * FROM TABLE_NAME)); Replace TABLE_NAME with your custom table name.
Posts on Sidebar only
Looks like the site you mentioned used a Text Widget. Did you try to add a new image to the media library and then add a text widget on your sidebar? Just copy the full path of the image you uploaded and then add a link surrounding the image. Steps: Add an image in the … Read more
Redirecting user to a page when there is no content?
Yes, get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘none’ ); will look for: 1.content-none.php 2.content.php
How do I use slideToggle inside a wordpress post?
Ok, so based on your comments, the problem as those pesky tags… WordPress is nasty with those, sometimes. As I said, it might be worth looking into a plugin that lets you add javascript to specific posts/pages. In the meantime, I suspect things should work if you put your whole javascript tag on one line … Read more
Creating a “category” of featured posts
To answer the latter part of the question, you can use this article for reference: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-display-the-latest-sticky-posts-in-wordpress/ and also the WP documentation here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Sticky_Posts The sticky posts can be obtained with: $sticky = get_option(‘sticky_posts’); Then the query: $args = array( ‘post__in’ => $sticky, ); $query = new WP_Query($args); That will give you what you need
How to correctly escape data
You might want to check out WordPress official docs on this topic, in your case focus on escaping output https://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_Sanitizing_and_Escaping_User_Data
post categories – how to show only categories with a specific parent id
You can use get_categories if you know parent category id. $categories = get_categories( array( ‘parent’ => $parent_id ) );
Show author bio box
Try this one : <?php $authordesc = get_the_author_meta( ‘description’ ); if ( ! empty ( $authordesc ) ){ ?> <div class=”blog-article-author”> //author info here… </div> <?php } ?>
Show all posts from the tags without having to set all of them
WP default loop will automatically show the posts with in current tag on tag.php page. you dont need to set custom WP_Query for that but make sure that you are not modifying the loop from any other method. if( have_posts() ) : while( have_posts() ) : the_post(); the_title(); //Rest of code. endwhile; endif;