Wordpress - frequently asked questions - Showing posts from July, 2023

Showing posts from July, 2023

Joomla Blog/Wordpress Integration I'm looking for a wordpress-like blog interface to put inside a Joomla hosted site. The admin interface of Joomla is quirky enough and hard enough to use that daily updates are infeasible. What I am looking for is an easy-to-use posting interface that supports multiple users with different accounts/names, a tagging scheme, and easy find by date/user/tag functionality. In particular I'm looking for a relatively easy-to-deploy, out-of-the-box solution, and would prefer not to hack rss feeds together or write too much custom code. I know there are several extensions out there but they all receive largely mixed reviews... Has anyone used any of these? Or has anyone had experience putting something like this together? 4 Answers Well you could do this - have a wordpress installation. Get the users to post there and then use the RSS feed from it (or the XML RPC Blogging API) to update the Joomla installation. You will have to write the update p...

Running a scheduled task in a Wordpress plug-in I'm trying to write a Wordpress plug-in that automatically posts a blog post at a certain time of day. For example, read a bunch of RSS feeds and post a daily digest of all new entries. There are plug-ins that do something similar to what I want, but many of them rely on a cron job for the automated scheduling. I'll do that if I have to, but I was hoping there was a better way. Getting a typical Wordpress user to add a cron job isn't exactly friendly. Is there a good way to schedule a task that runs from a Wordpress plug-in? It doesn't have to run at exactly the right time. 4 Answers codex wordpress: Function_Reference -> wp_schedule_event pseudo-cron is good but the two issues it has is It requires someone to "hit" the blog to execute. Low volume sites will potentially have wide ranging execution times so don't be two specific about the time. The processing happens before the page loads. So ...