Hi I want to display a specific category from a custom query in WordPress. My code works fine and it gets the latest 4 posts, but what I want now is to retrieve a specific category. My code is below thanks : global $wpdb; $posts = $wpdb->get_results(‘SELECT ID, post_title AS title, post_excerpt AS excerpt FROM … Read more
I have a self-hosted WordPress Blog (located at http://www.dougmolineux.com/wp if you’re interesed 🙂 I put a lot of Code Snippets on there, because I’m a programmer. How do I make these “snippets” code friendly? Right now, I am using a simple Blockquote around each one and it converts all single and double apostrophes into strange … Read more
I freshly installed a brand new WordPress for testing purpose as I am intending to refresh my current website. One of the requirement I have is to be able to embed code from Gist. Following the WordPress documentation, newer version comes with a specific shortcode for Gist : Gist Shortcode The issue is that it … Read more
I want to redirect all 404 error pages on my WordPress site to the homepage, or to a specific page. Any advice? 2 Answers 2 Note: I have read somewhere that redirecting all 404 to Homepage is not a good approach for SEO purposes Simplest way to redirect all 404 to homepage in wordpress. if( … Read more
I really appreciate everyone on this site who takes the time to answer questions here. I’ve learned a good deal already reading, but am sure I could learn even more if I could get past at least one basic question. Just like the “Best Collection of code for your functions.php file” post on this site, … Read more
I searched a way to automatically load all attached videos in a custom post type as SublimeVideo playlist. After some time I got it working and here I’ll share the code with everyone who is interested to do it the same way. 1 Answer 1 First of all get all video attachements of the post … Read more
I am trying to make sense of the wordpress installation process. The file setup-config.php under wp-admin has the following. I want to know what the difference is between these two variables, why both are needed, and what exactly the WP_SETUP_CONFIG boolean indicates. /** * We are installing. */ define(‘WP_INSTALLING’, true); /** * We are blissfully … Read more
Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question What I’m asking you here is not a technical question, but more a philosophical one. I … Read more
I am trying to connect a second database to my wordpress site so that I may ask for data from it and display it in a table on my site. I have tried multiple ways of doing so. I have tried to use php to connect in the wp-config.php file and I have tried ways … Read more
Like from the page of http://localhost/wordpress/about_us/ how do i get only the “about_us” ? Thanks 1 Answer 1 The WP global variable $pagename should be available for you, I have just tried with the same setup you specified. $pagename is defined in the file wp-includes/theme.php, inside the function get_page_template(), which is of course called before … Read more
