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How to get URL of current page displayed?
I want to add custom PHP code to ensure that whenever a page on my site loads in my browser, the URL of that page is echoed to the screen. I can use echo get_permalink(), but that does not work on all pages. Some pages (e.g. my homepage) display…
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Objective Best Practices for Plugin Development?
Starting a community wiki to collect up objective best practices for plugin development. This question was inspired by @EAMann's comments on wp-hackers.
The idea is to collaborate on what objective best practices might be so that we can potentially…
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Updates for a private plugin?
If I write a private plugin, is there any way to use the WordPress auto-update mechanism to update it?
I want to encapsulate the functionality, but it's specific to my own 5 or so blogs, so it's not a good candidate for the public plugins resource.…
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How to display SQL query that ran in query?
I have come across a function before that displayed the exact SQL code that was used.
In a loop for example, but can't remember.
Can anybody tell me that function?
Keith
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add_menu_page() with different name for first submenu item
The add_menu_page documentation says to pass the menu title as the second parameter:
add_menu_page('Page Title', 'Menu Title', ...);
When adding more pages later via add_submenu_page, the main page becomes the first entry in the submenu:
However,…
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Display a portion/ branch of the menu tree using wp_nav_menu()
I have a menu defined in WP Admin that looks like this:
I want to be able to display all the child links on the sidebar whenever I am at a parent page. For example, if the user is on my "About Us" page, I want a list of the 4 links highlighted in…
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Menu items description? Custom Walker for wp_nav_menu()
Normal Wordpress Menu looks like:
Home | Blog | About us | Contact
But I've seen many pages with descriptions under these links:
Home Page | Our Blogs | About us
| Contact
....meet us...| read more| basic info| contact…
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Uninstall, Activate, Deactivate a plugin: typical features & how-to
I'm making a WordPress plugin. What are typical things I should include in the uninstall feature?
For example, should I delete any tables I created in the install function?
Do I clean up my option entries?
Anything else?
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Verifying that I have fully removed a WordPress hack?
My for-fun WordPress blog at http://fakeplasticrock.com (running WordPress 3.1.1) got hacked -- it was showing an
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Using wpdb to connect to a separate database
I want to connect wpdb to another database. How do I create the instance and pass it the database name/username/password?
Thanks
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Organizing Code in your WordPress Theme's functions.php File?
The more customization I make to WordPress the more I start thinking about if I should be organizing this file or splitting it up.
More specifically, if I have a bunch of custom functions which only apply to the admin area and others which just…
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Best way to initiate a class in a WP plugin?
I've created a plugin, and of course being me, I wanted to go with a nice OO approach. Now what I've been doing is to create this class and then just below create an instance of this class:
class ClassName {
public function __construct(){
…
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How to Protect Uploads, if User is not Logged In?
I use WordPress for a private site where users upload files.
I use the "Private WordPress" to prevent access in to the site if the user is not logged in.
I would like to do the same to the files uploaded in the uploads folder.
So if a user its not…
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How to check if a user is in a specific role?
I have a pretty specific requirement to show different text in a field label on the user profile page based on the current user's role. I can't seem to figure out how to check whether the current use is an "author".
I am looking for a function…
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Where to put my code: plugin or functions.php?
Is there an easy to understand scheme to decide what kind of code belongs to a plugin or the theme’s functions.php?
There are many cases and many debates about that topic, mostly because there are some misconceptions about the inner workings of…
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