I have a few multisites, each with several sites, that I want to auto-generate @aliases for. Is there way to sync those sites as aliases in my site list? I’d like to be able to target a single site without having to specify –url=http://domain.com/sub-site/ and using the last part of the url seems like a … Read more
I’m looking for the best way to duplicate the Linux ‘watch’ command on Mac OS X. I’d like to run a command every few seconds to pattern match on the contents of an output file using ‘tail’ and ‘sed’. What’s my best option on a Mac, and can it be done without downloading software? 12 Answers 12
Is there a solution to keep plugins updated with wordpress by auto upgrade them without need to access to the admin panel every time? 1 Answer 1 Holy schmoly shadowpress – what a risky idea. I imagine one could write a cron plugin to do it, BUT what a risk….Already the auto wordpress multi update … Read more
I use the below code to delete custom posts with status ‘expired’ (thanks to Jamie Keefer). Posts are set as ‘expired’ by a 3rd party plugin. Users have only a frontend access to their posts (adverts). My question is: how to delete them after a number of days after they expired if post authors don’t … Read more
I’ve recently started revamping and re-releasing some abandoned (yet important) WordPress plugins. As I walk through the code patching other bugs, my IDE highlights deprecated function calls for me, which is fantastic! I fix them immediately when I find them and move on. Anything I don’t catch is called out by a Log Deprecated Calls … Read more
Is there a way to send the updated/added values from profile, when a member/user updates his/hers data, to the admin of the site or another emailadress? Can this be the first step? /* do something when user edits profile */ add_action(‘personal_options_update’, ‘notify_admin_on_update’); function notify_admin_on_update(){ // send a mail with the updated values to [email protected] exit; … Read more
As it is now, when a page that is in the nav menu is trashed, it still stays in the menu until manually remove via the nav menu editor. Is it possible to have trashed pages removed automatically? Thanks 2 Answers 2 Just hook the default delete_post handler for menus onto the trash action too: … Read more
I have written a plugin that (besides other functionality) makes posts from existing content. For each post I have one picture – how to make them featured programmatically? I do the: $id = wp_insert_post( $my_post ); wp_set_object_terms( $id, $cat_ids, ‘category’ ); and I would like my next step to be inserting $image (file path or … Read more
I am creating a WordPress Network multisite blog in a university environment. It’s set up in subdirectory mode, so that each new blog appears as a subdirectory off a common domain name. The Network authenticates against our corporate Active Directory using LDAP. Only Active Directory users may sign in. The first time a user signs … Read more
I have a bit of a tricky one… I have a hierarchical Custom Post Type (‘shows’) that represents events. Is it possible for the user to create a new page (ie show), save the page and for WordPress to automatically create a defined set of child pages with defined names? Ideally each child page would … Read more
