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fuf posted:Anyone got a good plugin to capture emails from a "Enter your email to receive our news" type input box? I don't need to do anything with the emails, just add them to a list somewhere in the admin panel. Youd need some kind of mass mailer / autoresponder if you are low volume something like mailchimp is cool.. I dont know if there are any plugins that do that. I use to have a free one that was built on php but it really was a pain in the rear end to mamage.
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They're gonna use mailchimp for the actual newsletter but haven't set it up yet so I can't just add the email address to a mailchimp list. I just need to store the emails for now.
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fuf posted:They're gonna use mailchimp for the actual newsletter but haven't set it up yet so I can't just add the email address to a mailchimp list. I just need to store the emails for now. You can use something like Grvity forms ^^ to grab details, but honestly Mailchip costs nothing to start up with.. and nothing to continue use until you hit a specific number of users or e-mails sent in a month, so why deal with transferring things more than you need to.. Have them sign up to MC and let you create the form in MC that you can put on the sidebar or wherever. It'll save some energy.
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Yeah that's a really good point and I just emailed to try and convince them to let me set up all their mailchimp stuff too. 
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Hey, this is a really simple thing but I've had a long day and my brain feels dead. Say I have 3 parts on my hypothetical site. "Clothes", "Cars" and "Weapons". Users can publish posts, and can choose a category for those posts. For example, "tee shirts" or "grenades". They can upload as many images as they like to that post, via advanced custom forms' gallery. The posts are then displayed as "latest cool poo poo", and can be filtered by specific category (show all grenades! Show all Ferrari's!) What I then want to do is have a new page, "Gallery of all weapons", and display any images uploaded to any post that is under the banner of "Weapons" (anything uploaded as grenades, machetes, knuckle-dusters etc). There will only be 3 or 4 types of weapons allowed. How can I say, on the Weapons page, "display anything uploaded to a post of these specific categories (i.e. show any grenades, machetes or knuckle dusters on this page"? Notes: I'm not really making a website for a clothes, cars and weapons distributor, the actual industry is way too boring to use as an example. Also I know I've done this exact thing before I'm just really tired and can't figure out how to do it now.
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Oct 8, 2014 18:38
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Chris! posted:Hey, this is a really simple thing but I've had a long day and my brain feels dead. The easiest way would be to make clothes, cars, and weapons three separate taxonomies, I'd say.
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Oct 8, 2014 19:20
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I'd like to mirror a wordpress site on a local machine so I can fiddle with it without fear of destroying anything. My initial plan was to install Akeeba Backup to do it for me, but apparently the webhost's PHP version is too old (5.2.17), so that's a no-go. Is there another plugin you could suggest? Backup/restorey stuff for mirroring. Or another approach altogether.
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Oct 13, 2014 12:50
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Duplicator is a badass plugin that was recommended in this thread and which I now use all the time. It's super slick. (dunno what version of php it needs though)
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fuf posted:Duplicator is a badass plugin that was recommended in this thread and which I now use all the time. It's super slick. FAQ says 5.3. God drat it. 
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Oct 13, 2014 13:15
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oh that's a shame. You could try this method by rt4 a few pages back describing how to clone a WP install:rt4 posted:
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Oct 13, 2014 13:31
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fuf posted:oh that's a shame. You could try this method by rt4 a few pages back describing how to clone a WP install: Yeah, was hoping for something less fiddly.
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darkgray posted:Yeah, was hoping for something less fiddly. I ran into the same problem recently (wanted to use Duplicator but they were using PHP 5.old), so had to follow roughly those steps. It was actually pretty easy - just copy everything from the server, backup the database, import the database into xampp or whatever you're using to work locally, paste the files you just copied, change wp-config.php to reflect whatever changes (different user, host or whatever). The only hassle I had was the site was using a bunch of really old, out of date plugins which just broke - but was pretty easily fixed with 5 mins tinkering in the index and page.php files. I didn't do any command line stuff. It probably took 10 minutes total and wasn't too much hassle. And once you're done making any changes in localhost, you can just use Duplicator to move the site to your final host.
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A quick and dirty tweak to rt4's approach which avoids wp-cli, but you need a linux commandline to run sed:rt4 posted:
Less fiddly, slightly more dangerous because you just blanket edit the SQL file with a find+replace.
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Oct 14, 2014 00:29
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Aside from the "siteurl" and "home" records in the wp_options table, where else does the url get changed? I'm pretty new to Wordpress, but so far when changing servers I've just gone in and manually edited those two records and called it done.
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Oct 14, 2014 02:13
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I'm fairly sure if you put links to other pages using the WYSIWYG it'll add those links with the domain you're editing the page on, rather than relative or domain-ambiguous links. There's also a number of plugins that will use absolute links rather than relative ones, so it's generally safer to do a blanket domain replacement rather than risk missing something obscure. Check your last DB dump for anything you might have missed with: grep -i db-dump.sql "my-awesome-dev-url.com"
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Oct 14, 2014 02:57
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The point of using wp-cli is that it keeps you from loving up serialized arrays that are in the database. You can lose widget positions and theme configuration options like that. It doesn't matter for custom development that's done by hand, but those abstract "site building" type of themes will lose your whole setup.
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I'm helping out a small resort with a bunch of groups of employees that needs an intranet solution. They need group management of posts so that only certain departments can see certain stuff, only management/supervisors in departments should be able to make posts/edit to their specific area (things like work schedules, departmental memos, etc.), and the default employee should only be able to read and not post/edit/comment. There are plenty of passable standalone services like Igloo designed specifically for company intranet, but they charge $8-12 per user. The resort GM already has a hardon for WordPress; does anyone have a plugin (or combination) recommendation? I keep coming across BuddyPress, but that's way too much of a social thing for the resort's tastes/needs.
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Oct 20, 2014 16:41
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The best solution would be to explain why Wordpress isn't the best tool for this job and to provide and explain a better alternative. The second best solution would be something like User Role Editor.
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Oct 20, 2014 16:48
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Does it make sense to combine multiple WP blogs into a single installation through the multi-site functionality WP 3+ seems to offer? I have five different people interested in getting away from Tumblr and I'm looking into WP as an alternative for everyone. Would a single multi-site install be easier for me to manage for them?
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Oct 21, 2014 16:07
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It's not that hard to set up a few separate WordPress installations, and going that route is (IMO) more flexible. You don't have to worry about installing a plugin for one site, that someone on another site activates and screws up their site. And it's not really that hard to manage multiple sites, if you use a tool like InfiniteWP (free, with some paid add-ons), ManageWP (monthly subscription), or similar.
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Oct 21, 2014 17:02
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Cross posting from the .NET thread - has anyone here tried WP.NET? The site has virtually no information on it and I'm curious as to how well it works (if at all)?
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Anyone know anything about how column widths are determined on the dashboard posts page (/wp-admin/edit.php)? The "title" column is super narrow, while "categories" is unnecessarily wide. Any way to widen one and narrow the other? It might have something to do with the Yoast plugin, which adds 4 new columns.
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I'm looking for a slider for Wordpress. I have a series of images that are presented on a page, somewhere around 8-15 of them, and you can page between them. Think of how the ads listen on a store website work. I've been using RoyalSlider and and pretty satisfied with it but I have one major point that's been a pain in my rear end. The sider I need has to have pagination, which this one does. I need to be able to link to a specific page of the slider. My issue is that I would like something that can create a table of contents or listing of everything in the slider automatically on each page. As it is now, I need to manually create an index on the top of each image being used in the slider. If I add an image or remove one then I need to edit every single menu and it's a major pain in the rear end. So I'm looking for a slider plugin where I can: -Add a bunch of images -Have it be paginated (every click of next goes to url.com/page#slide1) -Have is create a linked list or index of every image in the slider automatically. Anyone use anything like that out there.
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FCKGW posted:I'm looking for a slider for Wordpress. I have a series of images that are presented on a page, somewhere around 8-15 of them, and you can page between them. Think of how the ads listen on a store website work. Have you tried asking the plugin author to add the feature?
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FCKGW posted:I'm looking for a slider for Wordpress. I have a series of images that are presented on a page, somewhere around 8-15 of them, and you can page between them. Think of how the ads listen on a store website work. Check out LayerSlider I have no idea what it'll do for you about the table of contents, but I know for a fact that is has hashtag linking to specific slides. 
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For sliders, I really like Theia Post Slider. You can see it in action here and here. You just use the regular <!--nextpage--> tag in the editor to switch between slides, and you can set different header and footer content. It's also quite smooth, as you can see. Edit: Oh, it doesn't do an index, though. That would be pretty cool.
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What's the standard way of regularly backing up your wordpress sites? I only have a lovely blog so I just occasionally grab a sql export but I'm wondering what is the best way to do it for high traffic/important wordpress sites.
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We use VaultPress for realtime backups. It's great if your WordPress install is still functioning. But since your WordPress install has to be functioning, it's limited if you have broken it. Our server does daily backups, which we can access in case of disaster. I download a full backup once a month, as well. I could probably automate that, but it's not much bother. Edit: After writing this, I logged into my VaultPress account. It looks like you can restore a broken install. Sweet. Robot Arms fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Oct 29, 2014 |
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A WordPress backup is basically just "the site's content directory" plus "a dump of the database". You're already doing regular backups of your server, right? RIGHT? I have a script that dumps the relevant databases every 6 hours, then syncs the Web server and MySQL backups directories to The Cloud (TM). Given the small rate of change for my personal sites, once a day would probably be sufficient, but cloud storage and bandwidth are cheap. The service I use (Tarsnap) does versioned backups, so it's handy in case I really need to roll back a day or two for some reason.
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Any recommendations on wordpress theme a/b testing?
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My client is complaining that the RSS feed looks like poo poo (it's just the raw xml). Is there a plugin that prettify's the RSS feed in Wordpress? I gave feed burner from Google a quick go but feed burner itself is pretty awful.
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https://wordpress.org/plugins/xslt/
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Wow, that was loving simple. No configuration at all and the default style is pretty good. Thanks a lot.
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Small Job Opportunity: I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but I really couldn't find anywhere else as wordpress-focused as this thread; Mods, apologies in advance if this is not appropriate for this forum (feel free to delete), but I was hoping to get some help from someone who knows a lot more about this topic than I. I'm looking for someone I can email once or twice a week to help me finagle some plugins to better integrate them into my site. For example, I've been working with the "Calculated Fields Form" plugin for about a week and I have things set up almost exactly how I want them, but there are a couple details that are above my head—i.e. Having an accurately formatted "summary" field added (the default coding for the plugin's summary field is awful), and also adding an image that will appear depending on what choice is made in a particular field, etc. I've been using the support for the plugin (since I purchased it), but their support system is more of a back-and-forth one-liner-questions type of format. I essentially need 1 or 2 go-to guys to field questions and help me solve problems (for pay, of course) over the next month or so while I work on getting my website up and running. I will pay fairly and not ask for a lot (I can handle 95% of what I need). Any help or direction would be great! If interested, just shoot me a PM. Thanks!
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I'm considering making a tag widget that would allow a visitor to click a tag to add it to the currently displayed list of posts, and click an active tag to remove it, etc, allowing for filtering freely on multiple tags. My problem is that I can't figure out how to make Wordpress produce a permalink out of multiple active tags and categories. Any suggestions? Example: Visitor on page foo.com/category/shoes/tag/red,blue/ Clicks tag blue Visitor now shown foo.com/category/shoes/tag/red/ Clicks tag green Visitor now shown foo.com/category/shoes/tag/red,green/
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Need a plugin if anyone knows one that fits... I need to be able to add data to a database, with related data. So a phone name and then some notes regarding that name. Then other registered users can search and add more data. Anything out there? Also whats the go to paid registration plugin nowerdays? Looking at a monthly subscription for the whole site.
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I'm editing a site made by someone else. The site currently uses the Events Manager plugin, which the customer is very happy with. However, they want to set up a second type of event on the site. For example, at the moment the site lists "Music Events", with a few different categories of events, like Rock, Jazz etc. They want to make another page, which lists "Training Events". I can't see any way to create or separate events in this way? I can't actually see where in the template the existing Events page has been called from, there's nowhere I can see that calls the events in PHP, to allow specification of different categories etc. Anyone have experience with this?
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Chris! posted:I'm editing a site made by someone else. The site currently uses the Events Manager plugin, which the customer is very happy with. However, they want to set up a second type of event on the site. For example, at the moment the site lists "Music Events", with a few different categories of events, like Rock, Jazz etc. They want to make another page, which lists "Training Events". This isn't a fully-informed perspective, but it looks like Events can be called up using a set of Attributes. This will be conceptually familiar to any dev who's worked on the standard Wordpress Loop: http://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/event-search-attributes/ Scroll down to Event Attributes and you'll see the ability to give arguments for 'category' or 'tag', allowing you to filter specifically for Training Events (or not Training Events).
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