Anyhow, now they want a page from which a visitor could enter a search term, click submit, and get results from all of the separate applications!

Here is my solution:

The new page has your basic self submitting form:

<form action=”" method=”post”>
<label for=”search”>Search:</label>
<input name=”s” type=”text” value=”"  />
<input type=”submit” />
</form>

Then, of course, it grabs what has been submitted:

<?php

/**
* Get Search parameters
*/
$search = $_POST['s'];
$search = str_replace(” “,”%20″,$search);
echo $search;

?>

This checks to ensure that the user didn’t submit nothing (as WordPress would give us every post as currently coded…! ick).  This would also be a great place to guard against injection attacks (or in the last step of course), to filter what may be searched for, etc., but I’ll leave those concerns for another discussion:

<?php
/**
* If desired search is NOT empty, search, otherwise don’t
*/
if(($search != ”) && ($search != null) && (!empty($search)) )
{
?>

Now we curl in the results from each installation:

<?php
/**
* Get Search results from WP app 1
*/
$sub_req_url = “http://YOURAPP1URLHERE/searchpage.php?s=” . $search;
$ch = curl_init($sub_req_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$podcast_return = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $podcast_return;

/**
* End
*/
?>

<?php
/**
* Get Search results from WP app 2
*/
$sub_req_url = “http://YOURAPP2URLHERE/searchpage.php?s=” . $search;
$ch = curl_init($sub_req_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$podcast_return = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $podcast_return;

/**
* End
*/
?>

Now let’s close our IF block, and maybe provide ELSE if we want to…

<?php
/**
* close if empty block
*/
}
else
{
}
?>

Ok, that’s the end of our new page, again, I’ll leave formatting of the results and the rest of the page to another discussion.  Now let’s make the above mentioned search pages “searchpage.php” (make one for EACH APP, lives in the ROOT of EACH WP installation that we’re searching!):

<?php
/**
* WordPress App 1 Post Results Pull-In
*/
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES‘, true);
include(‘wp-load.php’ );
$query = new WP_Query(‘s=’ . $_GET['s']);
if ($query->have_posts()) : while ($query->have_posts()) : $query->the_post(); ?>

/* Again, how you choose to skin the results could be implemented here, but I’ll leave that up to you… */

<div id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>“>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<div>
<?php the_content(‘<p>Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>‘); ?>
<?php wp_link_pages(array(‘before’ => ‘<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ‘, ‘after’ => ‘</p>‘, ‘next_or_number’ => ‘number’)); ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

Whoohoo! Great Work!

get_bloginfo('url')

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_bloginfo

wp-content/themes/yourthemename/function.php

at the top insert the following (add to ‘<img>’ below to NOT strip out other specific tags, or simply comment the line out…):

function improved_trim_excerpt($text) {
global $post;
if ( ” == $text ) {
$text = get_the_content(”);
$text = apply_filters(‘the_content’, $text);
$text = str_replace(‘]]>’, ‘]]&gt;’, $text);
$text = strip_tags($text, ‘<img>’);
$excerpt_length = 55;
$words = explode(‘ ‘, $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
if (count($words)> $excerpt_length) {
array_pop($words);
array_push($words, ‘[...]‘);
$text = implode(‘ ‘, $words);
}
}
return $text;
}
remove_filter(‘get_the_excerpt’,'wp_trim_excerpt’);
add_filter(‘get_the_excerpt’,'improved_trim_excerpt’);

some references: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt, http://www.aaronrussell.co.uk/blog/improving-wordpress-the_excerpt/

What I didn’t realize is that the creators of Powerpress had exactly that in mind when they developed Powerpress!  All I had to do was install Powerpress, activate it, ensure that it’s settings were correct, and then deactivate Podpress, and bam, it worked. SO AWESOME, highly recommended.

So I can successfully declare today, that I’ve migrated now 3 podcasts from Podpress to Powerpress, one with 84 posts, one with 164, another with 11.

• The feeds are unaffected, Feedburner is completely unaware of the change
• views/layouts unaltered
• I didn’t even need to go back into the posts and alter the data, Powerpress simply interprets it
• iTunes unaffected
• Powerpress serves up the flashplayer if the requesting browser support flash, and theL HTML5 audio or video player if it doesn’t, enabling by many versions of the iPod, iPad, Android, and so on, handled, done!
• HUGE win.

Normally, you’d simply add a $_GET in your theme somewhere,
assign it to a variable,
and then append that onto any links that are headed back to the store site.

The trouble, though, is that when WordPress’
clean and pretty Permalinks URL function is active,
it takes over, and forwards (via htaccess, wordpress base code functions, or otherwise),
at which point in time data passed over is lost.

Solution:
In WordPress’ index.php (the very first root directory index),
include another file.

include(‘passback.php’);

In that file, instantiate SERVER SESSIONS, and save received parameters.
Something like this (of course looping through the REQUEST parameters dynamically would be smarter, but for simplicities sake, let’s just target a particular parameter):

session_start();
if($_GET['persistme'] != ”){ $passit = $_GET['persistme']; }
if(!isset($_SESSION['passback'])){ $_SESSION['passback'] = $passit; }

Now you can include your passback retrieval class in your theme, grab the parameter, and use your JavaScript library of choice to loop through all the links in the page and append it onto them.
Something like this (Prototype, and only appending links that already have a ? and thus other parameters they’re sending back…):

document.observe(‘dom:loaded’, function() {
$$(“a”).each(function(a) {
newhref = a.href;
if(newhref.include(‘?’){
newhref = a.href + “?rememberme=<?php echo $passit; ?>”;
a.writeAttribute(‘href’, newhref);
}
});
});

In my example, I used a feedburner feed (iTunes is using that), so I can simply change the feed source in feedburner, to something like the example xml feed in this post, and we can at least get the eyesore out of iTunes, freeing us up to make a new feedburner feed, and re-submit THAT anew to iTunes for a fresh clean go of things…

Host something like this somewhere, and point the old feedburner feed to it, done.

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<rss xmlns:itunes=”http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd” version=”2.0″>
<channel>
<itunes:block>yes</itunes:block>
<title>A Title Is Required For The Feed To Validate</title>
</channel>
</rss>

mostly in thanks to:

http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2008/03/category-based-archive/

http://www.themightymo.com/2009/07/22/includeexclude-category-from-wordpress-wp_get_archives/

http://kwebble.com/blog/2007_08_15/archives_for_a_category

Start with a Post and get Category ID:

Get the id number(A) for the post you’re interested in in wp_posts table,  id column

Go to wp_term_relationships table, and find that same id number(A) in the object_id column, read over to the term_taxonomy_id column and get that number, that’s the category id

Start with a Category ID and get Category Name:

Go to the wp_terms table, and find the category you’d like in the name column, read over to the term_id and note the number

Find all Cateogry IDs:

Go to the wp_term_taxonomy table and sort by taxonomy value ‘category category number is in term_taxonomy_id column

replace this:

< ?php get_header(); ? >

with something along these lines:

< ?php get_header(); ? >
< ?php
$paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1;
$args=array(
‘showposts’ => 10,
‘paged’=>$paged,
‘caller_get_posts’=> 1
);
query_posts($args);
? >

This solution uses functions.php, adding something like the following:

function SearchFilter($query)
{
if($query->is_search){
$query->set(‘cat’,’0′);
}
}
add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’,'SearchFilter’);

similar post:
http://alexyz.com/wordpress-rss-feed-exclude-categories-or-only-serve-one-particular-category/

http://alexyz.com/wordpress-limit-search-form-to-a-category-2/

similar reference:

http://speckyboy.com/2010/09/19/10-useful-wordpress-search-code-snippets/

INSERT INTO wp_users
(id,user_login,user_pass,user_email,display_name)
VALUES
(’5′,’uniqueusername’,md5(‘pass’),’uniqueusername@ourcompany.com’,'uniqueusername’);

// to note, this below is simultaneously a nice example of how to insert multiple rows with one MySQL INSERT statement

INSERT INTO wp_usermeta
(user_id,meta_key,meta_value)
VALUES
(’5′,’wp_capabilities’,'a:1:{s:6:”author”;s:1:”1″;}’),
(’5′,’wp_user_level’,’10′);

Thus, the full script looks something like this:

$employees = array(‘employee1@somesite.com’,'employee2@somesite.com’,'employee3@somesite.com’,'andsoon…’);

$startNumber = 10; // if you already have users, pick the next highest number, as it uses this for several tables below, we need them to happen at the same time so that attributes belong to specific users…

$db_name = “databasename”;
$db_host = “localhost”;
$db_username = “username”;
$db_password = “password”;

// note the nice error reporting so that we can troubleshoot connections, users, table selections, and so forth…
$link = mysql_connect($db_host, $db_username, $db_password);
if (!$link) {
die(‘Could not connect: ‘ . mysql_error());
}
else
{
echo ‘Connected successfully<br />’;
}

$db_selected = mysql_select_db($db_name, $link);
if (!$db_selected) {
die (‘Can\’t use foo : ‘ . mysql_error());
}
else
{
echo ‘Selected manyvoices database successfully<br />’;
}

foreach($employees as $employee)
{
list($user_name, $therest) = explode(‘@’,$employee);

$query1 = “INSERT INTO wp_users
(id,user_login,user_pass,user_email,display_name)
VALUES
(‘” . $startNumber . “‘,’” . $user_name . “‘,md5(‘pass’),’” . $employee . “‘,’” . $user_name . “‘)“;
//echo $query1 . “<br />”;

$result1 = mysql_query($query1);
if(!result1){
die(‘Error: ‘ . mysql_error());
}
else{
echo “User: ” . $user_name . ” : Added<br />”;
}

$query2 = “INSERT INTO wp_usermeta
(user_id,meta_key,meta_value)
VALUES
(‘” . $startNumber . “‘,’wp_capabilities’,'a:1:{s:6:\”author\”;s:1:\”1\”;}’),
(‘” . $startNumber . “‘,’wp_user_level’,’10′)“;
//echo $query2 . “<br />”;

$result2 = mysql_query($query2);
if(!result2){
die(‘Error: ‘ . mysql_error());
}
else
{
echo “User Credentials: ” . $user_name . ” : Updated<br />”;
}

$startNumber++;
}

mysql_close($link);

add to wp-content/themes/your-active-theme/function.php

function myFilter($query) {
if ($query->is_feed) {
$query->set(‘cat’,’9′);
}
return $query;
}

add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’,’myFilter‘);

// To EXCLUDE categories 9 and 11:

function myFilter($query) {
if ($query->is_feed) {
$query->set(‘cat’,’-9, -11‘);
}
return $query;
}

add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’,’myFilter‘);

Settings

Permalinks

Custom Structure radio text entry field

use this:

/%postname%/

so that your posts appear as they do in this blog, here:

http://www.sitename.com/post-name

The server in question is one of many cloud instances, and local development machines, in an environment using PHP, JAVA, Surf, among other technologies.

In short, it’s a pretty complex implementation/configuration…

Some URLs are being rewritten, others forwarded, directory crawling is off, but…

a legacy WordPress blog is being converted to clean/pretty URLs for SEO purposes

(which “look” like directory folder URLs)

(rather than WordPress relying on URL parameters by default)

so, along with editing the WordPress Setting for this,

the following was added to the httpd.conf file:

<IfModule modrewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /podcastInQuestionFolder/index.php [L]

</IfModule>

Of course, quite similar code in the .htaccess within that folder would accomplish a similar aim.

<script>
function submitter()
{
track_it(‘/podcast/searchFormSubmit/’);
document.searchform.submit();
}
</script>

<form method=”get” name=”searchform” id=”searchform” action=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>/”>

<input type=”text” value=”<?php the_search_query(); ?>” name=”s” id=”s” onclick=”this.value=””/>

This is the important new line, 5 is an example category id

<input type=”hidden” name=”cat” value=”5″ />

<a href=”javascript:submitter()” style=”text-decoration:none;font-size:11px;margin:0 0 0 5px;position:absolute;top:0px;”><img src=”wp-content/themes/New/images/go.png” onmouseover=”this.src=’wp-content/themes/New/images/go-over.png’” onmouseout=”this.src=’wp-content/themes/New/images/go.png’” border=”0″ />

</a>
</form>

source: http://wpgarage.com/code-snippets/how-to-hack-the-wordpress-search-function-search-categories-and-child-categories/

Instead, I was only getting the [display_podcast] token that one places in a post for Podpress and WordPress to then replace upon rendering the post…

I knew there had to be a simple solution.  My final code is below.  The key: wp_head();

< ? php

require_once(‘../podcast/wp-load.php’ ); // load the app
wp_head(); // this gets all the plugins and dependencies!!!!
query_posts(‘p=1807′); // documentation on using query_posts is nice and simple and clear
while (have_posts()) : the_post(); // iterate over the return

// use various things to output the data

the_ID(); the_time(‘l, F j, Y’); the_title(); the_content(); // and so on

endwhile;

? >

and start making whatever you need.  It’s a nice clean place to put things without hacking away at your code,

dynamically inserting with JS, or whatever other measure you’ve either employed in the past, or are considering now…

for example,

<?php
//My own footer hook
function my_footer() {

//code to execute

?><div class=”bigText”>blah blah blah</div><?

}

?>

then, wherever you like, call your new function, example, replace all <? wp_footer(); ?> calls with, you guested it, <? my_footer(); ?>

thanks to: http://www.raymondselda.com/understanding-action-hooks-in-wordpress/

Don’t forget to include the following in your new custom theme functions.php file if you want the dynamic custom drag widget sidebar!:

if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) )
register_sidebar();

reference: http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgetizing_Themes

table:
wp-options

column:
option_name

fields:
siteurl
home

also to note in here:
blogname
upload_url_path
comment_moderation
rss_language
admin_email

ALTERNATE OPTION, (db inaccessible)
add a few lines to:
wp-content/themes/default/functions.php

lines:
update_option(‘siteurl’,’http://yourUrl‘);
update_option(‘home’,’http://yourUrl/soundstrue.com/podcast‘);

If the second option used not to be forgotten, as it will overwrite DB every time App loads…

Use it.

Reference: http://akismet.com/

How:

Create a dashboard.wordpress.com account  if you don’t already have one, & find your API key

then in your blog, activate the Akismet plugin, enter your key, reap the rewards.

http://wordpress.smullindesign.com/plugins/google-adsense-widget

Google XML Sitemaps

http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/

Simple Hit Counter

http://jungwirths.com/2009/03/simple-wordpress-hit-counter-plugin/

WP Simple Paypal Donation

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/?page_id=942

Exec PHP

http://bluesome.net/post/2005/08/18/50/

Deactivate Visual Editor

http://plugindve.wordpress.com/

Google Analytics for WordPress

http://yoast.com/wordpress/analytics/#utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=plugin&utm_campaign=google-analytics-for-wordpress

session_start();

to the start of:

wp-config.php

right at the top, after <?