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UK, Oxford Location
3 Questions Asked
419 Answers Given
195 Contests Won
2010-10-04 Joined the site

Questions Asked

2011-02-09 Switching category hierarchy order
2011-01-05 Using core meta boxes elsewhere
2010-10-04 Trouble with custom post type pagination

Answers Given

2020-06-30 Extent the_post_thumbnail() function with a third parameter
2020-05-07 What can I do to have the elements on my homepage line up (e.g., the h
2020-03-17 List by first name and not ID
2020-02-02 Using WP-All Import, Repeat Upload process for paged variable?
2020-01-28 Send API data via POST on page load?
2020-01-08 I have a large DB of posts and I want to search via meta data. One of
2019-10-04 Using values from an array
2019-10-02 It's not possible to define a block template for a template.php file at present. How do you work with page templates?
2019-08-30 I want to "load more" posts with Ajax in a custom loop. Everything wor
2019-06-26 Upgrade to Newest Events Calendar plugin causing issues
2019-06-08 Upload HTML5 Canvas to Wordpress using ajax
2018-11-28 Align 4 buttons at checkout page
2018-11-21 I have an intranet designed with WordPress multisite. I need to have s
2018-10-05 Need Help Removing Code from Function PHP
2018-09-18 Change background image based on day/night
2018-09-15 Question SQL Reports WooCommerce
2018-06-05 Plugin for survey that shows graph as a result
2018-05-16 Total hours within range
2018-05-14 Walk array calculate shift
2015-07-07 Help implementing Google Place Autocomplete + ZIP code field
2015-06-16 Taxonomy Category for Detail field
2015-05-26 Billing Address Fields on Pay-Order Page (Woocommerce)
2015-05-25 Need help with slow queries/enabling transients
2015-04-30 Integrate LESS Sass to my Wordpress plugin
2015-04-14 WooC -Move Order Now Button To Under Payment Option (See pic)
2015-03-26 Need help with a MYSQL update statement
2015-02-18 Conditional statement for wordpress custom post category
2015-01-29 AddtoHome Code and Wordpress with iOS8 No Longer Works! Help Pls
2015-01-10 Woocommerce, count shipping cost in 2 way
2015-01-07 Saving registered member responses on page
2015-01-03 Custom post for activity logging?
2014-12-22 sorting sql query table values
2014-12-19 How can I insert taxonomy values for a post using a SQL query?
2014-12-19 Display Parent Term of Current Child Term
2014-12-16 Add First & Last Page to Paginate_Links
2014-12-13 Account problem, Why Lawrence ignore my messages??
2014-12-12 Prevent homepage from being deleted
2014-12-08 Multiple Meta Query Not Working
2014-11-25 Loop through multiple custom fields with increasing number
2014-11-11 fix CSS speed
2014-11-09 How to override parent files with child theme?
2014-11-06 how to hard code get_option({MY SERIALIZED DATA})
2014-11-05 Need a function to make a level for PMPRO standard
2014-11-05 $wpdb and $woocommerce dont work inside woocommerce action
2014-10-31 Which way to pull posts from mainsite to subsites on multisite
2014-10-24 $wpdb query with custom fields and post thumb template tags?
2014-10-22 Is a $100 prize amount appropriate for this question?
2014-10-21 Listing Terms by Field Value Advice
2014-10-17 Take 2: Custom Post Query by Term (on pages 2 and up)
2014-10-16 Website development strategy
2014-10-13 Woocommerce Coupon "Individual use only" default=checked
2014-10-03 I need a review/rating plugin with Google Auth (or similar)
2014-10-02 Define image size for Media Library
2014-10-01 Need Multipe Select2 Drop Downs
2014-09-30 Caching JSON API plugin with W3 Total Cache
2014-09-24 Query posts under custom taxonomy
2014-09-20 Replace post_content for all posts in MySQL
2014-09-18 Search Tax Terms via Drop Down Box
2014-09-11 Realtime Live Chat
2014-09-03 Best Way to Put Protection Shortcodes around content
2014-08-28 Merging Terms with Bootstrap Carousel
2014-08-22 Count Correct Terms for Display Pagination
2014-08-21 How to make my working wordpress modal open remotely
2014-08-01 Optimize SQL Query (Slow Performance)
2014-07-08 Make wp_generate_attachment_metadata fast
2014-07-08 category.php customization
2014-07-04 Redirect users to registration page and then to previous page?
2014-07-02 big problem with the site wpquestions.com !
2014-06-19 Show random post from custom post type
2014-06-13 Application form for employment
2014-05-30 Woocommerce ajax add to cart
2014-05-27 retrieve the output of a widget to use in a plugin
2014-05-26 Add a custom body class to pages and posts
2014-05-19 need urgent help with html2pdf and tcpdf
2014-05-13 Wordpress .htaccess rewrite for custom template
2014-05-09 query post, meta value in_array(meta_key)
2014-05-07 Auto expire posts in Event Calendar Pro
2014-05-06 Help to implement text only version of site
2014-05-05 Custom Taxonomies & Post Types - Options
2014-05-01 Suggest plugins or see if its possible to custom made
2014-04-30 WooCommerce 2.1 | redirect to custom thankyou page?
2014-04-25 Query Posts and then Change meta_value if older than two weeks
2014-04-04 WooCommerce: Display the member price to non-members
2014-03-28 Troubleshoot a plugin
2014-03-25 Issues with IE11 not displaying maps
2014-03-21 Sending third party information to checkout in WooCoomerce
2014-03-20 tinymce alternative for depreciated wpdialog() in WordPress 3.9?
2014-03-19 Highlight submenu_page if selected in admin menu
2014-03-19 wp_remote_get or wp_remote_post (instead of curl())?
2014-03-16 How to use the WordPress Media Manager for custom image dir?
2014-03-01 Create Grid For Website
2014-02-27 Facebook Debugger Returning 404 Error on Page
2014-02-14 Replace TEMPLATEPATH
2014-02-14 Hide header on mobile
2014-02-12 Change background image on my site depending on time of day
2014-02-04 Function fix - media libary filter
2014-02-02 Advanced Woocommerce Serach
2014-01-31 Conditional IF Custom Post Type is Root, A Parent, A Child
2014-01-29 How to transfer users safely from one site to another with all...
2014-01-22 Archive page renders results alphabetically
2014-01-14 Javascript to Pull in Values from a Feed
2014-01-13 Change plugin
2013-12-04 Fixate the random posts on the main page
2013-11-06 What is the best shared hosting company for PHP?
2013-11-06 Create Wordpress Menu Items Dynmaicly in Hierarchical structure
2013-10-17 WooCommerce: Customize Settings in WooCommerce Plugin
2013-10-07 How i can edit bulk short description for woocommerce products?
2013-09-25 Feature image thumbnail not showing in post
2013-09-25 WordPress front-end image upload. Implement canvas resizing
2013-08-31 CURL save remote images.
2013-08-23 AJAX code for loading file after selection from media library?
2013-08-08 WooCommerce update code for version 2.0 changes
2013-07-16 WooCommerce Category Shortcode
2013-05-30 Taxonomies with Categories
2013-05-10 Cloud providers for WordPress?
2013-03-31 html css markup to make a side by side set of buttons
2013-03-23 Css issue when added woocommerce
2013-03-13 Child theme functions.php: change and additions to functions
2013-03-09 Direction Aware Hover Effect
2013-03-02 Adding Image support to Meta Box Library & few other things
2013-02-28 Help Scheduling Annual Event for Exact Date
2013-02-27 Add Button to Users Page (jQuery)
2013-02-23 Problem with header information in PHP code
2013-02-04 Javascript - how to to set the property of a variable correctly?
2013-02-03 WPLatte Framework - Custom Fields
2013-02-01 Replace Register Link with Function
2013-02-01 ajax function request not working in IE, if I'm not logged in.
2013-02-01 WP error when migrating from one hosting server to another
2013-01-29 WP Transfer
2013-01-25 Display custom post types within a specific category
2013-01-24 Distance Search
2013-01-23 Wordpress Bootstrap Modal
2013-01-22 Narrow down search results
2013-01-20 How to install a plugin from a remote site from a plugin subpage?
2013-01-10 Ajax Add To Cart Item Meta Check
2013-01-02 Returning Max and Min Values of Custom Field for a Query
2013-01-01 How to add Google Maps Adsense code to leaflet-google-plugin?
2012-12-27 the button
2012-12-14 Custom Sorting of CPT & Taxonomies
2012-12-13 Pagination
2012-12-12 conditional loading of css files if do_shortcode() is used
2012-12-11 Worpdress Multiple taxonomy with next_post_link
2012-12-08 WP Karma Theme - include_page shortcode WANTED
2012-12-07 how to check size of parent container & resize certain elements?
2012-12-06 woocommerce - custom shop page sorting e pagination
2012-12-05 pagination don't work on single-customposttype.php
2012-12-05 Use thumbnail image size for img src
2012-12-05 Show 1 post from 1 category in sidebar
2012-12-02 old
2012-12-02 How to enqueue javascript in header if executed within shortcode?
2012-11-30 Moved blog, white screen of death
2012-11-29 Change twentyeleven name folder without crashing site
2012-11-29 How do I turn the post title field into a textarea?
2012-11-27 Using wp_schedule_single_event to Change Woocommerce Order Status
2012-11-20 Woocommerce: Create Order for Each Item
2012-11-14 Update Post Status based on User, Meta, and Attachments
2012-11-12 Howto display plugin update info on plugin settings page?
2012-11-08 Using WordPress to create Dynamic Pages and be SEO friendly
2012-11-08 Correct way for shortcode to show up after
2012-11-02 Pagination on Template Page
2012-10-31 Need to install Wordpress theme on another website
2012-10-31 One style.css including 2 color stylesheets
2012-10-26 populate the_content with the content of a field
2012-10-23 Shortcode within a shortcode / Landing site function
2012-10-23 Query Category based on date
2012-10-23 Relative-width Archive Links
2012-10-23 Mysql RAND() seed for random post pagination
2012-10-22 Highlight Current Archives Link
2012-10-22 Turn this into a widget -- pass form variables.
2012-10-20 Multiple Datepicker Conflict
2012-10-19 image does not load fully - some times
2012-10-18 Custom link for pagination
2012-10-18 Custom Post Types under regular pages?
2012-10-18 fire a plugin in a post or page load with ajax
2012-10-17 Help with Wpecommerce
2012-10-16 Atlas Theme: Blurry and washed out thumbnails in galleries
2012-10-14 How to make highly interactive Wordpress site
2012-10-13 Need to exclude a page from .shtml rewrite
2012-10-12 Meta query
2012-10-09 How Do I Create a Custome Wordpress Sidebar Menu Like This?
2012-10-08 Need help implementing user front end video upload to post
2012-10-05 Facebook button on my ATLAS theme
2012-10-04 Customize WP Search
2012-10-04 Pagination Problems with custom website
2012-10-03 I need a pro to help polish my site
2012-09-30 Have a specific page act as an archive?
2012-09-28 slide down pane to hold widget area
2012-09-28 How do I make custom post types not appear as blog posts?
2012-09-26 Retrieve Post ID by Author (current user) and CPT
2012-09-26 Related posts within a taxonomy.
2012-09-26 Redirect exit page: Get external url from custom field
2012-09-26 Finding colour tones...
2012-09-25 Parent page custom fields
2012-09-25 RegEx needed which doesnt replace text in -tags
2012-09-19 How to prevent plugins from adding html code to javascript?
2012-09-19 Isotope Corner Stamp (WordPress + Masonry)
2012-09-17 Mark as Read Plugin
2012-09-16 Redirect single to index, retrieve single via index through ajax
2012-09-07 How to fix "Undefined Index" on admin dashboard widgets?
2012-09-07 CPT Page Slug Conflict
2012-09-03 Custom Post Type, Taxonomy and Permalinks Re-write
2012-08-16 Custom taxonomy template not showing
2012-08-16 WooCommerce Price Filter Widget
2012-08-14 Can I exclude a single URL from a rewrite plugin?
2012-07-27 Need a non-expensive query to get popular terms over time period
2012-07-23 WordPress Custom Post Type Pagination 404 on in index.php :(
2012-07-12 How to limit author list by role - custom function
2012-07-05 Custom Taxonomy Listings
2012-07-03 WP Query merge with get_post_meta conditions
2012-07-03 WP WooCommerce; Run Custom Function for specific product ID
2012-06-26 PHP Form help
2012-06-14 Custom Post Type as Static Frontpage
2012-06-07 Custom Post Type & Custom Taxonomy Rewrite Maintaining Defaults
2012-06-07 jQuery Solution Needed For Code Used In WordPress Loop
2012-06-07 Order by meta value DESC - weird numerical ordering
2012-06-06 redirect taxonomy page to buddypress page
2012-06-06 get post count outside of workpress loop
2012-06-05 Accidentally changed the Site URL in General Settings
2012-06-04 Add alternating dynamic graphics
2012-06-01 SQL-query for getting a top authors by qty of received comments
2012-05-31 XML/RSS data feeds integration
2012-05-30 How do I selectively plugin WordPress to a static site?
2012-05-30 Changing the WP tagline from a theme options page
2012-05-30 Round 2: Custom Write Fields
2012-05-25 Custom Field Values as Taxonomy Terms
2012-05-25 Custom post type permalinks all load the homepage
2012-05-24 Search
2012-05-17 Create a Automatic Demo Site Which Deletes Itself After..
2012-05-16 WooCommerce Product Category Archive/Overview
2012-05-14 Bulk edit date on posts
2012-05-13 Moving website - custom postmeta uploaded files not showing
2012-02-07 Save userdata from checkboxes.
2012-02-07 Link to the excerpt from front_page.
2012-02-07 How do I edit the user confirmation email?
2012-02-06 save settings of tinymce_advanced
2012-02-06 croping function in buddypress not working
2012-02-04 Integrating custom field w/ url cloaker
2012-02-03 Term Filter to Exclude/Include
2012-02-01 Customize 3.3 toolbar - frontend
2012-01-31 Javascript Issue?
2012-01-30 check for shortcode in post/pages AND widgets AND template files
2012-01-27 Theme localization in a query...
2012-01-27 how to get values from a specific php array key
2012-01-27 How to display user meta in profile page?
2012-01-26 Wordpress Pagination
2012-01-26 Extended registartion form on wp-registration
2012-01-26 Taxonomy list limited to a specific post type
2012-01-26 How to keep search results from clearing on page reload?
2012-01-25 Plugin issue
2012-01-22 Bulk Import Categories + Category Description
2012-01-20 Help getting a plugin to activate and work
2012-01-18 Exclude images in post from gallery output
2012-01-18 adjacent posts links
2012-01-18 Query taxonomies to create a directory theme
2012-01-17 Multisite homepage link
2012-01-14 How to avoid duplicate posts in multiple loops?
2012-01-11 How can I combine 3 WP themes
2012-01-06 Serving up content by location
2012-01-05 update_post_meta / add_post_meta fails
2012-01-03 WP Most Popular Posts Show Weekly
2011-12-22 Sort by Meta Value Num and Filter Results
2011-12-21 How do I customize this PHP Script for Gravity forms?
2011-12-21 Custom Post Type Taxonomie Archive Error 404
2011-12-19 Address issues on checkout page w/ WooCommerce & Abundance theme
2011-12-19 Seperating custom post type categories from post categories
2011-12-19 Get Recent Post For Each Term in Custom Taxonomy
2011-12-17 Wordpress Author Biography no longer showing up
2011-12-15 Converting plugin options to one serialized setting in DB
2011-12-14 Different menus for posts that use the same template
2011-12-13 Content Breaks Page
2011-12-12 Permalinks help
2011-12-11 How to Limit Character Length in BuddyPress Function Output
2011-12-09 List posts from specific tags
2011-12-09 Search function for room rental ads
2011-12-09 Custom Function When Add User
2011-12-08 Wordpress single post template (image gallery)
2011-12-08 Automatically Change All
2011-12-08 Help with wordpress category navigation
2011-12-05 Install pretty photo without plugin?
2011-12-02 How to get a similar structure?
2011-12-02 Use HTML site URL's Recreated exactly on Custom Wordpress Site?
2011-11-30 Display Categories & related Subcat of Custom Tax in Grid Format
2011-11-30 WPMU disabled - breaks some permalinks
2011-11-29 add an uploader for each category
2011-11-28 How to redirect to new page after download file has initiated?
2011-11-27 Default values for WP Alchemy
2011-11-25 Different languages
2011-11-23 View 'Most Loved' posts - with 'Love This Post' counter
2011-11-23 How to share a theme across multiple - Separate - WP Installs?
2011-11-17 Automatically adding link for an image as a custom field
2011-11-17 Adding social media links to my website?
2011-11-17 Dynamically Add More Fields To Form (Theme Options)
2011-11-17 Having a site being able to reference itself with custom field
2011-11-17 Help: I need two main menus; for two seperate areas of a site.
2011-11-16 Looking for a hook like "edit_term_taxonomy"
2011-11-15 Display Posts in Carousel, Show Ads randomly in between
2011-11-14 Custom post types need to share a common post meta field
2011-11-12 separate functions.php from theme
2011-11-12 jQuery load does not get another jquery script after loop
2011-11-12 Multi site wordpress3.3 home page
2011-11-09 Add view profile to user.php
2011-11-09 Simple Term Meta Plugin - Display Taxonomy Meta
2011-10-26 WordPress 3.x custom comments
2011-10-25 Custom Post & Taxo Rewrites
2011-10-24 How to Remove Custom Post Slug from url?
2011-10-21 In Buddypress, show member's total custom post count?
2011-10-10 Need WP Rewrite Rules working code example
2011-10-06 wp_nav_menu filter - custom entries stripping { } characters
2011-10-04 nav menu walker as select dropdown
2011-10-03 can not login to wp-admin
2011-10-02 Custom home link
2011-09-30 Post edit background meta checkbox
2011-09-22 Multiple WordPress Query
2011-09-18 Rewrite category urls to strip hyphens
2011-09-13 Domain Aliase
2011-09-13 AJAX image uploader
2011-09-13 Front-End: Style Gallery Plugin
2011-09-13 Rewrite API, Current Month & Paging
2011-09-12 Where the heck is the PM feature?
2011-09-12 jQuery AJAX call response
2011-09-09 function where date = last month
2011-09-09 Add conditional to this function
2011-09-09 Add custom post type support to this function
2011-09-08 javascript variable scope
2011-09-08 How to make template for similar (product) posts? (Plugin maybe?)
2011-09-06 Work pagination into query
2011-09-06 wp_rewrite rule needed for Custom Post Type
2011-09-06 Allow posts to show HTML
2011-09-02 Blog inside page
2011-09-01 Grab array of child themes
2011-08-22 Making values in meta box conditional?
2011-08-13 Show custom fields on category template
2011-08-12 Filter Taxonomy List by Another Taxonomy Term
2011-07-15 How to Hide Buddypress Admin Bar For Everyone Except Admin
2011-07-13 Reducing HTTP Requests for Javascript Files in
2011-07-13 How to add url prefix to a secondary menu?
2011-07-12 "Cheatin' Uh?" Error Message for User Role Login
2011-07-10 Conditional Statement based on Custom Fields Content
2011-07-10 Buddypress + Gravity Forms - Adding Posts with Thumbnail
2011-07-07 Conditional header-objects per page/category
2011-07-06 IE Compatibility Issues
2011-07-04 Pretty upload permalinks in multisite
2011-07-03 Generate vcard from custom meta fields?
2011-06-22 .htaccess file, redirects, and making dev site live
2011-06-21 Retreiving Child Post Categories.
2011-06-21 Problem with taxonomy (child vs no child)
2011-06-20 Get page taxonomy term to use in other queries on same page
2011-06-18 List custom taxonomy terms linking to specific custom post type
2011-06-16 Help using query_posts with custom post types and taxonomies
2011-06-15 A WordPress Strategy Question - Author Profile Customization
2011-05-12 Script to add current author to post from front end
2011-04-29 Custom Page template, Not displaying page, but displaying post.
2011-04-28 display latest post outside of WordPress preferably with JSON
2011-04-26 Query custom posts by page slug
2011-04-25 How to tidy (or edit) wordpress source code ?
2011-04-24 Post Automatically Expire with Magic Fields Plugin
2011-04-15 Buddypress, Wishlist, S2 and Mingle
2011-04-06 Adding wordpress post ID to a Colorbox jQuery string?
2011-04-06 Newsletter batching emails sent over time
2011-04-04 Custom taxonomy and post types
2011-03-30 JQuery Conflicts
2011-03-30 Use custom meta key in strtotime
2011-03-02 What's wrong with my menu options?
2011-03-01 Adding Permalink To Image In RSS Feed - Includes partial code.
2011-02-21 Prevent specific categories from being used in URL/permalink
2011-02-21 Display only first category of custom taxonomy
2011-02-19 Include Image From Inside Single Post Template In RSS Feed?
2011-02-18 User Searchable Database Plug in
2011-02-17 How to include wp-load.php dynamically
2011-02-17 Gravity Forms/PHP: how to integrate gform_post_submission hook?
2011-02-17 Technical help on my website
2011-02-11 Adding tabs to a pre-written custom fields script. Hack Job!
2011-02-09 resolve issue with buddypress and jcarousel
2011-02-09 URGENT: Internal Server error
2011-02-09 Unhook admin pages in BackupBuddy
2011-02-08 Gravity Forms - Export ONLY the search results
2011-02-08 Speed of blog is too slow
2011-02-07 Function code cleanup
2011-02-05 Two-way synchronizing of a post type among multisite blogs
2011-02-02 Sorting one widget by another plugins data
2011-02-01 Multiple random queries - prevent duplicate posts
2011-01-31 Modify Sales Template in Semiologic Pro
2011-01-31 custom walker for wp_nav_menu (custom html outputted)
2011-01-28 Modify main loop query for paged and meta key
2011-01-27 custom multisite query for home page
2011-01-27 undefined index in wordpress options
2011-01-27 Query - need to sort by a custom field.
2011-01-26 Custom Walker Class wp_nav_menu()
2011-01-25 Customize Comment Reply Link
2011-01-21 Is there a way to reduce queries on news themes w/multiple loops?
2011-01-20 Apostrophes being escaped on options page output
2011-01-20 Make my plugin compatible with all Header tags instead of just h3
2011-01-20 Converting WordPress pages/posts to Word documents
2011-01-19 What is Wordpress best practice for multi-step form development?
2011-01-14 hide if custom field is empty
2011-01-13 custom design wp_list_pages()
2011-01-12 How to change 'home' in top nav in Autofocus pro theme?
2011-01-10 Show images from nextgen gallery on page in slideshow
2011-01-10 Easiest question of all-time
2011-01-08 Query Latest Posts on Multi-site Network
2011-01-07 how to add a .current_post_item class to a sidebar item?
2010-12-22 Delete all post of custom post type 'memberlist' and...
2010-12-20 jQuery slide with images from NextGen Gallery
2010-12-20 Need help to interpret a resolved case in WordPress Forum
2010-12-13 binding .js to ajax reload activity
2010-12-07 Unable to Change Permalink From Orginal Domain Name
2010-12-06 Automatic category creation and category as post title
2010-11-29 Media Uploader inserts image URL into last form element
2010-11-25 Case-Insensitive Passwords
2010-11-17 Ajax Category Dropdown Plugin change, need to Exclude Category
2010-11-09 Accidentally changed site URL
2010-11-09 Header logo link, recent posts on home page, and category header
2010-10-29 Blog roll! Help needed asap!!
2010-10-21 Custom post type, query on title, then display eash post.
2010-10-19 Removing Title on Home Page in Thematic
2010-10-08 htaccess rewrite
2010-10-08 Custom Query By jQuery Var
2010-10-08 Adding additional email alert
2010-10-06 Jquery carousel/toggle, Need to save the state.