previewing my posts on static page?

You will need to set a Static Page as your front page, create and assign a PHP Template for that page, and stack multiple Queries in the template to search out your required categories and display them. Here is one, you might have many: // get the last post (any date) from ‘Featured’ category $featured … Read more

Automatically republish old posts

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oldest-2-newest-redux/ it takes your oldest post and reposts it in the front every 24 hours, but you can change the hours on the php file in the plugin folder not sure if this is what u are looking for.

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You need to add Open Graph meta tags to your <head>. See og:image below… <meta property=”og:title” content=”35% of LinkedIn Users Check The Site Daily” /> <meta property=”og:type” content=”article” /> <meta property=”og:url” content=”http://therealtimereport.com/2011/08/05/35-of-linkedin-users-check-the-site-daily/” /> <meta property=”og:image” content=”http://therealtimereport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LinkedIn-Users-Are-Highly-Engaged.png” /> <meta property=”og:site_name” content=”The Realtime Report” /> <meta property=”og:description” content=”Now the No.2 ranked social networking site – as of … Read more

Dynamic carousel on individual posts

You can use WordPress built in gallery, see Gallery Shortcode. If you look for the gallery shortcode function in WordPress core, you can see how it grabs the image attachments to a post with get_children and outputs them. You can use this as a starting point to write your own function to output the gallery … Read more

Create post for every user?

Create this as a plugin and activate it. It deactivates itself after it creates a primary page for Authors and sub-pages for each Author+ or better Role. At the end, it deactivates itself. Improve it as you wish. It uses // Hook activation to create new Author Pages register_activation_hook(__FILE__, function(){ // Create a Parent Page … Read more