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Any help rewriting [for a wannabe programmer] is appreciated! Thanks.

I am somewhat new to both WordPress and PHP, and I wanted to get advice on the best way to tackle my problem as I have had little luck doing it successfully so far.

There are two jobs I want to handle:

First of all, I want to have a conditional include on my home page that does the following;

Find a custom post type home_content (only ever going to be 1 post, which is ID 76 – if that helps)
Display 3 custom fields from that post… the values for today_on front_widget_a & front_widget_b

(I guess a secondary question would be – can I even pass shortcode through a custom field, because that’s what those widgets are being generated from, is shortcode from a plug-in)

That’s pretty much it.  I’ve tried various combination’s of get_posts and get_post_meta without much success.  Either I get some syntax errors I can’t figure out (and trust me I’ve combed my code many times for missing semi-colons and the like).  That or I get a result that makes no sense.

The second one is a bit more difficult.

Basically trying to turn a part of my WordPress into a bit of a CMS-style feature.  Basically, I have 2 additional custom post types, one called tag_page_layout and one called tag_page_data.

When a Tag in a post is clicked on, I want the Tag page to grab custom field 1 from the tag_page_layout, and then a couple custom fields worth of data from tag_page_data. 

I probably wouldn’t even need the two post types if I took the time to learn the PHP or HTML code for making tabs, but again, I’m using a plug-in for WordPress shortcode (which, if you see above – I’m not even sure is going to work right – of course if its not I’m willing to make multiple of these ‘layout’ posts so each [tab:NAME] shortcode bit is in it’s own post-content area. 

So… the tag page will basically have a big bit of code that runs before the loop…. it knows its on a tag page so it starts loading Custom Field 1 from the tag_page_layout, which is essentially a bit of code that starts up a Tab-separated data presentation area.  Then it’s got to take the tag clicked and match it with the same tag ID from custom post type #2 – the tag_page_data group.  Then it will grab the first 3 or so fields from that page, swap back to the layout post, throw another custom field from there to start another tab, and so on and so forth, until a [tab:END] and it runs the loop.

I could include all my various attempts and bits of code that never worked or half worked, but I’ve been around so many circles trying to construct this.  Like I said, my coding knowledge is limited but I can usually feel my way around, however these finer points of trying to make WordPress a little more CMS-like seem to be harder for me to grasp.  Any help would be appreciated!

rsync -e ssh -avz –recursive user@remoteServer:/remotepath /usr/www/users/

I get prompted for the password and then it gives me a whole bunch of access denied errors.

I’ve been tasked with creating a new site, using wordpress. I’m fine with this, but I’m stuck when it gets to putting all the old archive stories into wordpress as separate articles.

Here’s what I need to do:

Scrape all the text from the HTML pages.

Take the text and separate it into individual articles with the following fields: article name, article body, date, article position. Article position refers to whether the story is first, second, third or whatever on the HTML page.

Parse/spider the article titles and article bodies to create a list of possible tags, and then match these against each article to generate suggested tags.

If the tagging bit isn’t possible, then it would be acceptable for them just to be tagged with “archive” or something, and they can be manually tagged as and when is possible.

Save the outputted data (article title, article body, date, position, tag1, tag2, tag3) in whatever form makes sense. – excel/XML/whatever

Import the data into wordpress.

I have a good understanding of what needs to be done, and a rough idea of how to do it, I just lack the detailed technical knowledge to put it together.

Any suggestions/help would be much appreciated!

Looking at the database, there are categories assigned to the post in question, but it seems that something didn’t copy over with the database conversion.

If I edit the post and assign a new category to it from the admin page, that new category is returned by get_the_categories()

Is there a different function I should be using, or did something go awry during my upgrade?