WordPress Development Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, February 26, 2015

Top new questions this week: Where are the official i18n WordPress versions stored (SVN)? I've already checked http://i18n.svn.wordpress.org/, but something seems off. I need official file checksums. I took /ar (Arabic) as an example, and compared all the files in the repository against ... <localization> <svn>   asked by Gray Fox 4 votes answered by kaiser 5 votes Should I check for ABSPATH in Themes? I recently browsed WooCommerce source, and it appears that they're doing this: <?php /** * The template for displaying product content within loops. * * Override this template by copying it to ... <security> <woocommerce>   asked by Norris 3 votes Stop WordPress from reserving slugs for media items? I am experiencing some odd behavior, that apparently happens "out of the box" with WordPress. If I upload a file through the media manager called: services.jpg; then go try to create a page with the ... <permalinks> <attachments> <media> <slug>   asked by Matt Keys 3 votes answered by Matt Keys 2 votes How to get the oEmbed type (audio, video, image etc.)? If I embed something with oEmbed, is there a chance to get the type of the embed (video, audio etc.) ? If I look at www.oembed.com I see that in the JSON response there is always the data type. Any ... <oembed>   asked by user2190870 3 votes answered by birgire 1 vote How should I document function calls? Reading the WordPress PHP Documentation Standards, I can't see anywhere that mentions how to document a function call such as add_action( 'foo', 'bar' ); Should I be documenting function calls and, ... <documentation> <coding-standards>   asked by henrywright 2 votes answered by ialocin 1 vote Ship plugin with a custom theme I need to add a plugin to a theme and enable it automatically once the theme is activated. Would also like to change its settings if possible. This is the plugin I am trying to include: ... <plugins> <themes>   asked by user3312508 2 votes answered by kaiser 6 votes Filter for "get_post_type_archive_link()" I tried to find filters or a hook to modify link returned by this function get_post_type_archive_link() I have gone through most of the documentation. I'm not sure it's not there or I'm not able to ... <custom-post-types> <filters> <hooks> <archives>   asked by Ittikorn S. 2 votes answered by cybmeta 2 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: How do I get the avatar URL instead of an HTML IMG tag when using get_avatar? I'm using a plugin called Simple Local Avatars which lets me upload author images which are stored on my server locally (no Gravatar). The plugin works fine and get_avatar returns the local avatar. ... <images> <urls> <avatar>   asked by aalaap 8 votes answered by aalaap 17 votes How can I add an image upload field directly to a custom write panel? I've added a new page under "Pages" in the wordpress admin, and added several custom fields. I'd also like to be able to add an upload image field to the page editor - is there some way to do this via ... <wp-admin> <custom-field> <images> <uploads>   asked by Will 37 votes answered by MathSmath 79 votes Can you answer these? Sort alphabetically by custom field I'm trying to change the sort order of a custom field in a custom post type. I want it to be be alphabetical by the 'location' name. It's sorting by location, but not keeping them in alphabetical ... <custom-field> <array> <sort> <meta-value>   asked by user2993161 1 vote How to trigger a refresh in the media modal I'm developing a plugin that adds a new tab to the media modal, and I need to know a way trigger a refresh of the attachments tab so it shows newly added attachments. This is the code I'm using: ... <attachments> <media> <media-modal> <backbone>   asked by user1991185 1 vote Insert Images at Master Uniform Height I'm trying to figure out a way to insert images from the media library into the post editor at a uniform height... but by selecting one option. For example, I set a height like "300" somewhere (like ... <images> <shortcode> <media>   asked by Jon 2 votes

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