WordPress Development Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, August 28, 2014

Top new questions this week: Is it possible to query all posts that don't have an attachment? I want to get a list of all posts that don't have an attachment and delete them. This question takes about getting all posts that have an attachment, but I want the reverse of it. The brute force … <wp-query> <attachments> <gallery>   asked by Sudar 5 votes answered by birgire 3 votes Passing a hardcoded page/post ID into `get_post` I see people using this to pull in page content on their home pages, remove specific categories from archives etc.. e.g. $post = get_post( 5 ); Someone suggested this was bad practice. Why is it … <posts> <terms> <api> <core>   asked by Tom J Nowell 4 votes answered by Tomás Cot 6 votes How to place a loop within another loop? I have two loops setup using WP_Query: $latest and $popular that I'm working to setup in this example layout: Latest                        … <wp-query> <loop>   asked by rick 4 votes answered by Howdy_McGee 3 votes How to edit an existing WordPress theme? I've been hired to modify/update/change an existing WordPress theme. The site is already live, and I'm wondering how to work on the theme locally first. <theme-development> <css> <stylesheet> <development-strategy>   asked by user58823 3 votes answered by Ray Mitchell 0 votes Nginx + WordPress + HHVM: Why isn't Batcache working? Would Varnish help even more? I've heard great things about HHVM, so I've setup a copy of WordPress blog (on another domain) with Nginx (with the Pagespeed module) and HHVM. Right now the benefits are obvious: on the same config, … <cache> <performance> <nginx> <varnish>   asked by javipas 3 votes How can you make sure authors' posts are longer than 250 words? I'm making a website that authors can sign up to and write articles. However I don't want low quality posts submitted. So, firstly I want the posts to be not empty and to be longer than 250 words. … <posts> <content>   asked by chap 3 votes answered by birgire 5 votes Deactivate plugin for a specific user group I would like to deactivate a plugin for a specific user. I'm using the following code inside a the wp-content/plugin-mu plugin file: add_filter( 'option_active_plugins', 'bo_disable_apm_plugin' ); … <plugins> <actions> <user-roles>   asked by Simon 3 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Proper way to get page content I have to get specific page content (like page(12)) I used that : <?php $id=47; $post = get_page($id); echo $post->post_content; ?> Work nice execpt for compatibility with qtranslate … <pages> <query> <post-content>   asked by menardmam 6 votes answered by menardmam 3 votes Cannot access non-wordpress subdirectories as wordpress overrides them with a 404 error I refer to this question previously asked and not suitably answered: Wordpress overriding actual subdirectories and also Non "Wordpress" pages/code getting 404 error. I have the same … <errors> <htaccess> <404-error> <directory>   asked by Nicole 8 votes answered by Elpie 10 votes Can you answer these? How can i realize a semi-private research diary blog We are a group of researchers who would like to each use a blog as our research diary. Regularly we would write down in a post what we have been doing, intermediate results, to do's, challenges ahead, … <feed> <private>   asked by scattered_dandelion 1 vote How to add a "data-" attribute to the image tag of native gallery output While trying to make WordPress and Galleria to become friends I already have a good result. Galleria can easily be used to display native WordPress Galleries. I'm using a plugin but that's not … <images> <javascript> <gallery> <wp-get-attachment-image> <attribute>   asked by eventcom 2 votes How can I edit the 'Most Used' tab in the categories meta-box to show another custom taxonomy? The 'Most Used' tab in the categories meta-box is the one that can be seen in the Edit Post section. I want to replace the Most Used tab, with a tab that lists another Custom Taxonomy, or edit the … <categories> <custom-taxonomy> <metabox> <taxonomy>   asked by danny2104 1 vote

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