get parent fields title, content excerpt etc

You can try get_post($post->post_parent) or get_page($post->post_parent) so if you do: $parent = get_post($post->post_parent); You can get the title like this: $parent->post_title; And anything you want, you can var_dump($parent) to see all the post info you can use.

Possible?! A contextually titled back link

1) For your sidebar menu highlighting, try using has_category( $cat ) (Codex ref) rather than in_category( $cat ). (Reference Otto’s comment above.) 2) For navigation, if you’re using previous_post_link()/next_post_link() (Codex ref) use the $in_same_cat argument.

Making a new post visible on a specific page

I would solve this using the plugin Advanced Custom Fields. 1) create an ACF item with the following config view larger 2) it will show a metabox when editing a Post, where you can select which Page the post should appear 3) in your page template, adapt this code to your needs <?php // START … Read more

Some blog posts containing source code fail to save draft or publish

From a look at /wp-includes/default-filters.php: Maybe one of the following filters is causing the problem. I’d try to remove_filter() them and see what happens: add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘wptexturize’ ); add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘convert_smilies’ ); add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘convert_chars’ ); add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’ ); add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘shortcode_unautop’ ); add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘prepend_attachment’ ); If this doesn’t help, we’ll need another … Read more

Your ideas on my though “delete or move all of the posts in a specific category when 3 days are passed”

here is a quick plugin i cooked for you 🙂 <?php /* Plugin Name: Post Auto Removal Plugin URI: http://en.bainternet.info Description: Post Auto Removal lets you schedule when the post / page / custom type will be deleted automatically. Version: 0.1 Author: bainternet Author URI: http://en.bainternet.info */ /* hook meta box */ add_action(“admin_init”, “admin_init”); /* … Read more