Queries are only available after “wp” action hook, so ‘init’ is too early to check for it.
If you are using “page-template”s you’ll have problems with pagination since pages are not meant to display posts and some people frown upon using page-templates for custom archive display, but it’s sometimes the simplest way. Anyway the solution is 1.) to nullify the global $wpquery 2.) adding ‘paged’ => $paged arg. before displaying your posts…
There are various ways to get user_ID in WP. But which one is the fastest ? I’ve compared 3 ways function get_uid_from_global() { global $current_user; return $current_user->ID; } function get_uid_by_gcuid() { return get_current_user_id(); } function get_uid_by_wpgcu_id() { return wp_get_current_user()->ID; } Without a doubt, global method was fastest. With multiple 100,000 runs, global method took 0.9~…
My metaboxes suddenly stopped working. If that’s the case for you, and you are clueless, try resetting $id for your meta_box
If you are familiar with WordPress, you should already know that you should almost never have to use get_posts(). Your best bet is to use WP_Query . As good as wp_query is, you should still fine-tune it depending on your needs, it does make a difference. For example, if you just need 1 random post…
<?php function notify_post_status( $post_id = NULL, $user = ” ) { if ( ! isset($_POST[“post_id”]) ) { $post_id = $_POST[“post_id”]; } else { return $post_id; } $post = get_post($post_id); $status = $post->post_status; $type = $post->post_type; $author_id = intval($post->post_author); $user = get_userdata( $author_id ); //ignore admin if( $author_id == 1 ) return; // Which statuses should…
Always check for local time Despite the fact that my server timezone was set correctly, somehow time() was giving wrong ( UTC) hour. So i ended up using wp’s functions to make sure. $now = current_time( ‘timestamp’, 0 ) ;$local_ts = get_the_time(‘U’,$post->ID);
