The Loop

Jan Fabry

1:47 PM

@Brady: Are my comments clear enough? It's not always easy to explain there :-)

Brady

one mo Jan ive got 5 things going on at once. Ill get back to you :)

Brady

2:04 PM

@JanFabry do you have any examples anywhere of applying filter to the WHERE part of the query

Jan Fabry

@Brady It uses the posts_where filter, I'll try to find some answers I wrote that use it

core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.1.2/wp-includes/…

wordpress.stackexchange.com/search?q=posts_where shows a lot of course

A very simple one that adds a clause:

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A: Query on custom field count?

The following code allows you to add the parameters wpse4528_key and wpse4528_minimum to your queries, and will then add an extra criterium to the where clause that counts the number of meta values with your key. add_filter( 'posts_where', 'wpse4528_posts_where', 10, 2 ); function wpse4528_posts...

Brady

ok I think I've got enough to go on now. I'll try out a few things and get back if i need more help. thanks Jan

Jan Fabry

Mike Schinkel once added a nice example that subclassed WP_Query to add his own functionality

very clever and clean

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A: Custom Taxonomy WP_Query for All Terms in a Taxonomy?

Hi @Dave Morris: You are correct, WordPress decides if you don't have a term they'll just ignore your taxonomy. There are three (3) main approaches you could try: Use a complete SQL query with $wpdb->get_results(), Get a list of $post->IDs for all posts in your taxonomy and then pass t...

user247245

2:38 PM

I have a page. I want to display it's content with template index.php. the_title() works. How to grab the body-content?

Rarst

@user247245 the_content() ? :)

I am not sure what you want exactly, but you shouldn't mess with index.php - it's catch-all template for all things that have no template of their own

if you need page with specific template you should just create one for it

user247245

thanks, it's a simple portfolio site, no blog, all pages. the !"#* content won't show up. I don't need loop. Have tried with or wo the_post() before calling the_content(), no difference..

ahh, now it works, thanks anyway!

what if i want to load the_content() into a variable, (for simple parsing)?

Jan Fabry

@user247245 get_the_content()

But this misses some filters that only act on the_content(), so you probably want apply_filters( 'the_content', get_the_content() )

Brady

Whats better to store lat lng values in MySQL? use floats or look at usual MySQL spatial data types?

Jan Fabry

2:53 PM

@Brady You would only be using POINT I guess? Then the overhead of the spatial datatypes might be too much

With all the conversion from and to a textual representation

Brady

Im just storing lat and lng nothing else.

so float(10,6) seem the best way and correctly indexed?

Jan Fabry

@Brady That is how I would do it yes

Brady

yeah from what im reading else where im getting same feedback

Jan Fabry

But we also have dba.stackexchange.com if you want to be really sure :-)

Rarst

twitter.com/#!/rarst/status/66154584623677440 :)

Brady

2:58 PM

is there such thing in mysql to do an insert but if the key exists then do update instead

@Rarst :D

Rarst

that sounded too much for my brain today :)

Jan Fabry

@Brady dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/insert-on-duplicate.html

Brady

@JanFabry cool I need this for use on save_post so that if the custom post type hasnt got its lat lng in the db it inserts and if it does it updates

now just need to find best way to index this table.

Rarst

that is some crowd in chat... do we have a record? :)

Brady

6? i know its more than normal but surely uve had more than this in the past

we've*

Rarst

3:08 PM

had we?..

Brady

i dunno im asking you

Rarst

I don't think I had seen more than three :) on other hand I hadn't been much in the chat from the start

Brady

anyway I'm going afk. Just because I've got an electrical degree I've been the one designated in the office to change lightbulbs. Need to replace a handful.

Jan Fabry

Ah, the value of a degree!

Rarst

heh... I need to do some more hours of work... yay, Settings API... a lot of Settings API...

Brady

3:12 PM

I still need to get my head around the Settings API. to me it seems to make such a simple task much longer

correct me if I'm wrong but you have to create a function for every setting on the page and a function for every call back for saving that setting... So if you got 15 settings on a page thats a lot of added code

or am I seeing it wrong...

user247245

@jan, thanks. Now the menus are messing with me. Two menus, registered in functions.php, with add_action and register_nav_menus. Template holding wp_nav_menu('name'=>'tried both name and title'), they're showing the same menu. Thankful for any input.

Jan Fabry

@user247245: Can you create a question for this?

user247245

@jan, sure.

Jan Fabry

I'm also gone now, see what we'll eat tonight

(Ah, remembered it: leftovers. Yay!)

Rarst

@Brady function per setting, but only one validation function per page

Brady

3:49 PM

@Rarst so you can use the same one function for all settings on the page?

Rarst

for validation yes, for form output - function/method per field

Brady

4:16 PM

@JanFabry stackoverflow.com/questions/5900963/… question is up on stackoverflow

Jan Fabry

4:59 PM

Hey great, we got a "votes cast" indicator in the activity dropdown!

Brady

whats that?

Jan Fabry

5:14 PM

@Brady Hover over your name at the top of each page, next to your reputation

The dropdown shows recent reputation changes and other activity

I just noticed that it now also shows how many votes you cast today

To encourage people to vote more

Just like there was a recent change where you get more question-only votes

Brady

oh yes i see it too. wasnt there before :)

Jan Fabry

You can cast 30 votes on questions or answers, and after that, 10 more only on questions

To encourage people to vote on questions, which is something that doesn't happen enough

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Q: Why are questions not being voted on?

I have noticed a trend that questions (even good ones) that have multiple answers are not being voted on. When a new question comes in it's on the front page for less than a day (around 16-20 hours) unless it has votes then it's pretty much forgotten. The problem is much worse on SO where front...

Brady

5:27 PM

I think I up vote well. I have contributed about 100 upvotes in the short period ive been here. I think thats impressive

Granted I pick and choose only a small handful of questions to look at but out of those I'd say 90% of them I upvote if their question is well presented

Jan Fabry

5:42 PM

@Brady Well, you are in the top 5 of voters for the current quarter, which roughly equals the time you spent here

So that is indeed great!

It took an extra effort for me to start voting on questions, but now I like it too

Rarst

I hate HTML forms...

Jan Fabry

@Rarst True, they don't give the same satisfaction that a paper form gives when you scribble all over it :-)

Rarst

not filling, making...

Feeds

8:24 PM

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Q: Haunted by one question in mod queue

(strictly moderator stuff, nothing interesting) Every time I use bottom moderator bar to cycle through pending flags queue sooner or later I get this question. Bottom bar is just empty, no flags that I can see, it's long deleted. Why does it want my attention all the time?

support

Rarst

heh I just got "you haven't voted on quesitons in a while, questions need votes too!" popup... guess that meta request struck a chord with higher powers

Feeds

11:37 PM

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Q: JavaScript Error on WordPress Answers

I figured this would be the best place to report bugs; please let me know if there's a better place/way. I'm using the latest stable version of Chrome on Mac OSX and I get a JavaScript error on question pages. The error message is the following: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'initIfSho...

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