I’m trying to show in media modal box, attachments from a specific folder in my website and, correct me if I’m wrong, the best way to proceed is a like filter on wp_posts field GUID. Something like and ({$wpdb->posts}.guid LIKE ‘%/uploads_media_news/%’)). Problem is I don’t really know where to apply this filter: is it better … Read more
I am using the pop-u-lar widget on my blog, which is linking to the selected posts by their “guid”s. However, the site itself is using human-readable links instead and I want the widget to do the same. The widget uses a “for each” loop with the variable $post, so I thought get_the_permalink($post) would do the … Read more
I create product custom posts from an external data suscription, populating some custom fields and displaying product specifications automatically. As there are a lot of these products, the manual review of each one is made after the custom post have been already published. And it is at that moment when I want my readers to … Read more
Feedwordpress has an issue with creating duplicate posts. This duplication does not happen predictably, however, so it is hard to debug it. I need to be able to reproduce duplicating posts before I can go any further. Has anyone been able to reproduce duplicate posts when a feed is updated using feedwordpress? If so, what … Read more
I have setup wordpress on my server, and after some time I’ve changed the domain name of the installation. However, all of the old urls within the site point to the old domain. How can I change old urls to match the new domain without breaking the database? Here’s what I did: I went to … Read more
Hello and please excuse if this has been answered before but we really need to make sure. We have developed a website under a domain of ours and then moved it to the live site of the client. We have run a few sql queries in the db in order to update to the new … Read more
Recently I have transferred my WordPress from development server to live server. I noticed that I have to change all the “guid” with live domain url. Is there any mysql query or simple function available to change it easily. 6 s 6 It should be something like: UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = REPLACE(guid, ‘oldurl.com’, ‘newurl.com’) … Read more
Post and page guids include the full absolute URL of my site (e.g. http://www.example.com/wordpress/?p=1). This causes a problem if the domain, or wordpress path changes, or if I’m viewing the site via its IP address rather its domain, etc. Problem 1: there are some internal links on my site that are using the guid. I’m … Read more
Done this before and i am still wondering what to do with the wp_posts => guid content, which has reference to http://localhost But at wordpress.org documentation it clearly states: Never, ever, change the contents of the GUID column, under any circumstances. But as i understand it is just to unique identify your posts globally. But … Read more
