I have been struggling to create a plugin that would allow my customer to update their contact info. I've managed have the plugin show the fields in the admin-area of the frontpage (only want to show the info there). As I fill in the information & press update post, fields go blank and nothing gets saved.
I believe I've isolated the cause to the nonce-field, tested by having some of the fields in an if-statement where I tested for isset & wp_verify_nonce. The fields disappeared, thus the nonce isn't working correctly. What am I doing wrong?
This is my first Wordpress-site that I'm working on so the solution of using multiple fields might not be the most clever but seemed the most simple to wrap my head around.
As a side question, am I right in assuming that I can echo the contents of a field (for example the 'h3_nimi' by using echo get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'h3_nimi', true );?
Hopefully it's ok to use pastebin to avoid cluttering the post as the code is rather long due to multiple fields? Thank you in advance.
http://pastebin.com/fqRW2Yyx
Your nonce is created as tt-tallennus but you are checking against tt_henkilosto so the check will always fail.
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I have a business goal forcing me to try to change the global wordpress query after the URL has been determined, but before the templates start outputting variables in the context of the original post. I need to be able to use a plugin to check some meta values on the original post, and then change the query to represent another post object to display different data without changing the url.
I've tried using setup_postdata() what seems like everywhere.
(tried including wp_reset_query();)
global $post;
$post = get_post(145, OBJECT );
setup_postdata($post);
However, the template is still outputting the original query.
I'm open to other solutions. Thanks in advance.
add_action('wp_loaded', function(){
query_posts(array('p'=>145,'post_type' =>'any'));
});
This worked out fine. It can be added just about anywhere. However, it messes up page templates, and displays pages as if they're single.php!!! If I can get around that, then I'll be in good shape. Help?
EDIT: Got it working. I have to check and use p for posts, and page_id for pages. So long as those are set, the templates will follow correctly. Otherwise it was trying to apply the standard post template to pages.
This should be a simple thing, however I am at a loss at calling on this meta information. I want to apply custom css to posts marked as featured, specifically I want a css stamp on the corner. I have that part good, but I can't apply the class.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-item-metabox/
I tried this plug in, and it works well. I am able to pull a page with all of the articles I have set us featured but I can't for the life of me figure out how to pull the information to echo it as a class.
I've tried lots of things, this is the closest I've come to success I think:
<div class="featured"><?php echo get_post_custom_keys($post_id, '_featured'); ?></div>
Here I'm trying to just echo the contents so I can see what it is outputting, makes it easier to troubleshoot.
This seems like something that is basic but I'm at a loss. How should I call the custom meta key?
You should try with get_post_meta()
(http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_meta)
$all_meta = get_post_meta($post_id)
//dump($all_meta)
and check if your post has featured value.
Many plugin need some [shortcode] to be placed in a page, sometimes within the loop. But usually it only makes the actual [shortcode] appear where I placed it and nothing else !
For example such and such contact form plugin asks me to put [contact form plugin] in my contact page and I'm supposed to see a form appearing there as a result, but instead I see a blank page with the shortcode appearing.
I'm relatively new to WordPress so this question must sound stupid, stil can anybody take the pain to explain to me ?
AFAIK, [shortcode] is intended to be appeared or operated within the loop. if you want it to display outside it (says, on sidebar, or on footer) you need to manually compute it's value.
To do that, you can use do_shortcode() function:
<?php echo do_shortcode ( '[your-shortcode-text]' ); ?>
I am working in worpress front page.
I want to add a plugin to the page at a specific location manually but adding the code to the page myself.
I basically want to include a plugin in a certain page on a certain location. So I'm create a div...
<div id="plugin-holder">
**Plugin-will-appear-here-with-this-code**
</div>
Don't anyone know how this is done please?
Thanks
If you're wanting a plugin to appear somewhere, you'll be looking for "shortcode" functionality.
This is actually surprisingly easy to code, check out the examples in the Codex under Shortcode API - ie:
function bartag_func( $atts ) {
// ... do more things here ...
return "text to replace shortcode";
}
add_shortcode( 'bartag', 'bartag_func' );
Once you've called these functions you can use [bartag] in code and it will run your function and replace the shortcode with the generated text your function returns.
If you're adding shortcode functionality to your site, it generally makes most sense to code a really simple plugin and put it in that. The reason why this works best is that, over time, it's really easy to forget and upgrade a theme by mistake (or even change to a new theme) and thus break your site by losing your custom code in your former functions.php. Surprisingly, this is pretty easy to achieve and only requires some specially formatted comments at the top of your plugin file and a little common sense in coding - there are many tutorials and "how to"s around!
Here's a useful shortcode tutorial: http://www.reallyeffective.co.uk/archives/2009/06/22/how-to-code-your-own-wordpress-shortcode-plugin-tutorial-part-1/
You should add the relevant plugin code to functions.php.
I suspect you'll want to use some conditional tags, like is_home() to pinpoint your location. But maybe not, depending on what you are trying to do,
Also, if you're trying to to insert from a pre-existing plug-in, make sure you remove the register_activation_hook or activate_pluginname action.
If your plugin supports a sidebar widget you can simply "widgitize" the div tag that you wish to insert the plugin into.. Google the term and you are gonna find many resources.
I asked this question over in the actual tutorial, but not sure I'll get an answer anytime soon as it's almost 2 months old... so I'll take a gander here...
Tutorial is here: Build a WordPress Plugin to Add Author Biographies to your Posts
To sum up the tutorial and what the problem is, The tutorial adds an Author Bio on to the end of the content like so (the short version):
function x($content) {
return $content . "Author Bio";
}
add_action('the_content','x');
The Problem:
When someone uses:
$z = apply_filters('the_content', 'some content here');
echo $z;
The Author Bio will end up applied to $z and if $z is echoed out in the middle of some page… the Author Bio would be in the middle of some page… correct? (it's correct because I've tested it...)
Is there a better way to apply something to the end/under/below the_content hook? other than add_action(‘the_content’, ‘some_function’) because this to me seems evil...
or is apply_filters(‘the_content’, ‘some content here’) not the norm or something developers shouldn't be using inside their WordPress templates…? (which seems pretty much the norm, at least upon Google-ing formatting "the_content" outside the loop)...
Using apply_filters('the_content','some content here'), while it may not be 'the norm' (I don't know. I haven't seen it before, but if I needed formatted text, that's what I'd do), is a perfectly valid use of filters to get some text formatted like the content. Unfortunately, there's no better way to append something to content from a plugin. That is just the way these things work.
However, there's a (less than optimal) way of circumventing this. As part of the setup/install process for your plugin, have the user insert a custom function call, action, or filter into their theme. I know several plugins that do this, so it's not all that uncommon. Something like this:
do_action('my_super_awesome_bio_hook');
Would allow you to hook in without worrying about adding a bio to unexpected (and unintended) content. Even better would be inserting a filter:
echo apply_filters('my_super_awesome_bio_filter_hook','');
That would allow your plugin to modify the bio, but also allow the one using the plugin to override it if necessary (like on pages where they're just using excerpts, like search results, etc.).
Hope this helped.
Also, one minor addendum: you should be using add_filter, not add_action to append the Author Bio. add_action still works, but it's a filter you want to be using.
I bumped into a similar issue with a widget I'm dev'ing. I just found this:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wpautop
Which I'm now going to use instead of add_filters('the_content'). I want the WYSIWYG formatting but I don't want things append to my content because it's not traditional content anymore.