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Dbranes

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Developer from Iceland

... Just another Earthling cruising the Milky Way galaxy ...

Answers Given:	228 (see them all)
Contests Won:	124
Prize Money Earned:	$1636
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Country:	iceland
City:	reykjavik
Netvotes this month (upvotes minus downvotes):	5
Netvotes of all time (upvotes minus downvotes):	11
Joined the site:	July 16, 2012

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Dbranes 's discourse:

Hi, just few things I've noticed:

1) new question emails where not sent during the weekend.
2) what is the status of the: "On the 1st of each month, a prize is given to the most upvoted expert."
3) the upvoted discourse list is filled with spam.
4) is the community pot paid out every night? It reads: "Every night we pay out a portion of the Community Pot (5% or $25, whichever is greatest)."
5) I think too many solved problems are going to the community pot, is there a way to remind askers to vote?
6) I think it would be nice to have each question/answer/response linkable.

ps: thanks again for this great site and community service ;-)

cheers

One idea:

It would be nice to have each answer/response linkable i.e. where this kind of url:

http://www.wpquestions.com/question/showChronoLoggedIn/id/8039#123456

would take you to the corresponding answer/response.

cheers.

Written in response to something Lawrence Krubner wrote.

good idea ;-)

ps: I have noticed that the netvotes (on the user profile pages) are off by +1 or -1 for some users, i.e. if we use this definition:

Netvotes of all time (upvotes minus downvotes):

Here are some examples:

  http://www.wpquestions.com/user/profile/id/7063



  13 upvotes - 6 downvotes = 7 netvotes (but reports 6 netvotes)



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   http://www.wpquestions.com/user/profile/id/8523



   6 upvotes - 0 downvotes = 6 netvotes (but reports 5 netvotes)



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   http://www.wpquestions.com/user/profile/id/2974



   1 upvotes - 0 downvotes = 1 netvote (but reports 2 netvotes)

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... or maybe I'm just misunderstanding the netvotes ;-)

cheers

Written in response to something Dbranes wrote.

Harish Chouhan says:
Hello,
Just another related question about JS, but i understand if its not possible to answer.

I wish to give the download link from say www.website.com/theme_01/

Now when the user clicks on the download link on the above example page, it either starts the download or if it fails, should show a javascript alert box. But the user should continue to stay on www.website.com/theme_01/. is this possible?

you could replace

echo "<h1>Sorry, no access!</h1>";

with

wp_redirect( 'http://www.website.com/theme_01/', 301 );

or hide the links for non authorized users.

Written in response to Protecting File Downloads in WordPress based on user role:

Harish Chouhan says:
I have voted your answer, but not sure if you got the funds or if I need to do anything else. Please advise.

perfect, thanks

(the thread is closed when the question is in voting)

Dbranes had responses to this.

Written in response to something Anthony Moore wrote.

> Is it possible to store all of the taxonomy terms in an array and then just have for my tax query
>
> 'taxonomy' => 'celebrity_types',
> 'terms' => array($term_list),
>
> would something like that be possible?

yes, if the terms are not too many, you could try

 'tax_query' => array(

                        array(

                                'taxonomy' => 'celebrity_types',

                                'field' => 'slug',

                                'terms' => $celebrity_slugs,

                                'operator' => 'IN',

                        )

                )

where you have

$celebrity_terms = get_terms('celebrity_types', 'hide_empty=1');

$celebrity_slugs = array();

foreach ( $celebrity_terms as $term ) {

        $celebrity_slugs[]=$term->slug;

}

cheers.

Anthony Moore had responses to this.

Written in response to Display all Posts from Taxononmy with Pagination:

> Anthony Moore wrote:
> I just realized that the page is displaying ALL of the posts and not just the ones with a term in the "celebrities" taxonomy.
> I guess "taxonomy_name" doesn't do anything. These is my args
> Any suggestions?

Hi Anthony, I can't reply on the completed question (closed for comments):

http://www.wpquestions.com/question/showChronoLoggedIn/id/7681

You are right, I just checked out the SQL query behind it.

For example:

                

                'taxonomy'=>'celebrity_types',

                'taxonomy_name'=>'celebrity_types',

                'tax_query' => array(

                        array(

                                'taxonomy' => 'celebrity_types',

                        )

                )

does not change the query at all.

There are few alternative ideas that come to mind:

1) if the terms are not many, you can list them like this:



                'tax_query' => array(

                        array(

                                'taxonomy' => 'celebrity_types',

                                'field' => 'slug',

                                'terms' => array('type_a','type_b','type_c'),

                                'operator' => 'IN',

                        )

                )

2) you can have one term (fx. "all") that all "speakers" posts are marked with, if they are in the celebrity_types taxonomy, then you can use

                'tax_query' => array(

                        array(

                                'taxonomy' => 'celebrity_types',

                                'field' => 'slug',

                                'terms' => 'all'

                        )

                )

3) have one term (fx. "exclude") that all speakers posts are marked with if they are NOT in the celebrity_types taxonomy (but then they will be in this taxonomy of coz ;-).

You can then use:



                'tax_query' => array(

                        array(

                                'taxonomy' => 'celebrity_types',

                                'field' => 'slug',

                                'terms' => array('exclude'),

                                'operator' => 'NOT IN',

                        )

                )

4) use custom SQL queries like this one:
(to search for all posts in the "speakers" post_type that are also in the "celebrity_types" taxonomy)

$sql=" SELECT

{$wpdb->term_relationships}.object_id as post_id,

{$wpdb->posts}.post_title as post_title,

{$wpdb->terms}.name as term_name,

{$wpdb->term_taxonomy}.term_id as term_id,

{$wpdb->term_taxonomy}.taxonomy,

{$wpdb->terms}.slug as term_slug,

{$wpdb->posts}.post_name

FROM {$wpdb->terms}

LEFT JOIN {$wpdb->term_taxonomy}

ON {$wpdb->term_taxonomy}.term_id = {$wpdb->terms}.term_id

LEFT  JOIN {$wpdb->term_relationships}

ON {$wpdb->term_taxonomy}.term_taxonomy_id = {$wpdb->term_relationships}.term_taxonomy_id

LEFT  JOIN {$wpdb->posts}

ON {$wpdb->term_relationships}.object_id = {$wpdb->posts}.id

WHERE {$wpdb->term_taxonomy}.taxonomy in ( 'celebrity_types')

AND {$wpdb->posts}.post_status ='publish'

AND {$wpdb->posts}.post_type ='speakers'

GROUP BY post_id LIMIT 0,6

";



$data =$wpdb->get_results($sql,ARRAY_A);



// debug:

// echo  "count: ".count($data);

// print_r($data);



foreach($data as $d){

        echo "<div>";

        echo "<h2>".$d['post_title']."</h2>";

        echo $d['post_name'];

        echo "</div>";

}

but this is the most complex method and will need some more programming to link fx. $paged with the "LIMIT" part of the query.

You would also have to change the pagination and next/prev links.

cheers.

Anthony Moore had responses to this.

Written in response to something Martin Pham wrote.

nice answer you provided by the way, it's not very often we see linux shell commands popup in the answers here ;-)

- it would be interesting to have linuxquestions.com ;-)

cheers

Written in response to Access denied.:

ps: just be careful using this kind of permission:

chmod 777 /homepages/25/d161120255/htdocs/rockwell/wp-config.php

the wp-config.php file should in general not have a 777 permission, since it contains the database password etc.

See more here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions

wp-config.php should be 600 to prevent other users on the server from reading it.

cheers

Martin Pham had responses to this.

Written in response to something Basilis Kanonidis wrote.

Basilis Kanonidis: you can read more about the voting here:

http://blog.tailormadeanswers.com/2011/04/22/voting-assign-prize-money/

cheers

First I want to thank Lawrence and the WP Questions community for a great site ;-)

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I'm sometimes contacted by askers who are not able to vote on the questions.

I haven't been an asker before, so I can't advice them.

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The link "Tutorial: How to assign prize money" given in the footer is

http://codewi.se/2011/04/22/voting-assign-prize-money/

it's in Swedish and about something quite different ;-)

This link is also given in the FAQ (term 29).

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cheers

Written in response to something John Cotton wrote.

John has got a point there.

ps: I was courious why the other solutions didn't work, so I found out why:

a) there was a tiny misspell in Keith Donegan's solution, there was a missing "t" in the $ouput variable name (should have been $output)

b) and I forgot to put $post->ID inside get_the_title(), but I don't like query_posts for various reasons so I used get_posts instead.

So here are the two corrected solutions just for referance:

Keith Donegan's solution

add_shortcode('random_quotes', 'my_random_quotes');

function my_random_quotes(){

	$output = '';

    //The Query

    query_posts('post_type=client-quotes&posts_per_page=1&orderby=rand');

    //The Loop

    if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

        $output .= '<h3>' . get_the_title() . '</h3>';

        $output .= '<p class="name"><a title="Testimonials from our clients" href="/testimonials-from-our-clients/">...read more</a></p>';

    endwhile; else:

    endif;

    //Reset Query

    wp_reset_query();	

	return $output;

}

Dbrane's solution

//add_shortcode('random_quotes', 'my_random_quotes');

function my_random_quotes(){

        $s="";

        $posts=get_posts(array( 'post_type'=>'post','numberposts' =>1,'orderby'=>'rand'));

        foreach( $posts as $post ){

                setup_postdata($post);

                $s.="<h3>".get_the_title($post->ID)."</h3>";

                $s.='<p class="name"><a title="Testimonials from our clients" href="/testimonials-from-our-clients/">...read more</a></p>';

        }

}

Written in response to something John Cotton wrote.

John has got a point there.

ps: I was courious why the other solutions didn't work, so I found out why:

a) there was a tiny misspell in Keith Donegan's solution, there was a missing "t" in the $ouput variable name (should have been $output)

b) and I forgot to put $post->ID inside get_the_title(), but I don't like query_posts for various reasons so I used get_posts instead.

So here are the two corrected solutions just for referance:

Keith Donegan's solution

add_shortcode('random_quotes', 'my_random_quotes');

function my_random_quotes(){

	$output = '';

    //The Query

    query_posts('post_type=client-quotes&posts_per_page=1&orderby=rand');

    //The Loop

    if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

        $output .= '<h3>' . get_the_title() . '</h3>';

        $output .= '<p class="name"><a title="Testimonials from our clients" href="/testimonials-from-our-clients/">...read more</a></p>';

    endwhile; else:

    endif;

    //Reset Query

    wp_reset_query();	

	return $output;

}

Dbrane's solution

//add_shortcode('random_quotes', 'my_random_quotes');

function my_random_quotes(){

        $s="";

        $posts=get_posts(array( 'post_type'=>'post','numberposts' =>2,'orderby'=>'rand'));

        foreach( $posts as $post ){

                setup_postdata($post);

                $s.="<h3>".get_the_title($post->ID)."</h3>";

                $s.='<p class="name"><a title="Testimonials from our clients" href="/testimonials-from-our-clients/">...read more</a></p>';

        }

}

Written in response to Gravity Form and NextGEN Gallery:

It would be interesting to hear what the problem was - thanks.

Arnav Joy had responses to this.

Written in response to Add a splash screen with video:

It looks like the site owner of www.wyattburns.com is using the "WP Splash Image" plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wsi/) that was suggested in one of the answers, but he has failed to report it back.

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Dbranes suggested these prizes as appropriate for these questions:

Combine two queris using $query->set - Suggested prize: $25
Multiple relationship for multiple tax_query in WP_Query - Suggested prize: $35