Michael Fields

I have never come across anything like this specifically coded as a WordPress Plugin. The closest solution I have for you is Wget – warning – quite possibly a learning curve 🙂

This piece of code should do it for you. Place this code in your theme’s functions.php file. You can add customizations to the custom_password_form() function – just don’t use print or echo – the function must return a value.

<?php
add_filter( 'the_password_form', 'custom_password_form' );
function custom_password_form() {
	global $post;
	$label = 'pwbox-'.( empty( $post->ID ) ? rand() : $post->ID );
	$o = '<form class="protected-post-form" action="' . get_option('siteurl') . '/wp-pass.php" method="post">
	' . __( "This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:" ) . '
	<label for="' . $label . '">' . __( "Password:" ) . ' </label><input name="post_password" id="' . $label . '" type="password" size="20" /><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="' . esc_attr__( "Submit" ) . '" />
	</form>
	';
	return $o;
}
?>

galen3050,

Great job! There are a few usability things that I would change if this were my site…

1. I would definitely move the photography navigation to the top of the photo, I (and many others) have to scroll to access it. Then, when I click a link to view the previous or next image, the navigation gets pushed back down again.. kinda frustration for those of use with small screen resolutions 🙂

2. I have to click on the photo to close the lightbox popup – AND when I click the blacked-out background part, nothing happens. It seems like your site has been coded to function the opposite way that I have seen this effect function in the past – which can be off-putting to those of us who are used to the ‘default’ functionality. Basically, I feel like it is a deterrent – I spend more time thinking about what I should click on rather than looking at your photos.

3. Please do not disable my right mouse button – there is absolutely no reason to do this… ever!

Please don’t think I’m trying to be mean…
-Mike

I use a custom function which looks a bit like this:

<?php
function loop(  ) {
	global $post;

	$post_class = 'post'; /* Class for all posts. */
	$post_class .= ( is_sticky() ) ? ' sticky' : ''; /* Don't forget about stickiness. */
	$post_class .= ( in_category( 4 ) ) ? ' stinky-cheeses' : '';
	$post_class .= ( in_category( 17 ) ) ? ' blue-monkeys' : '';
	$post_class .= ( in_category( 66 ) ) ? ' taco-freakout' : '';

	print "\n\t" . '<div class="'. $post_class .'" id="post-' . get_the_ID() . '">';
		/* Do your normal loop stuff here */
	print "\n\t" . '</div><!-- end post -->';
}
?>

Call this function inside the loop in category.php

Both http://educhalk.org/blog/how-to-copy-your-online-wordpress-blog-to-xampp-on-your-local-computer-or-usb-drive/ and http://www.scyj.be/creating-a-local-copy-of-a-wordpress-blog/ are teaching you the wrong way to move a WordPress installation from one domain to another.

Unable to create directory /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/mywebsite/wp-content/uploads/2009/10. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

The easiest way to get around this is to create a folder here: “your-install-folder/wp-content/uploads/” and set the permissions so that it can be writable.

sanitize_email() is defined on line 1558 of /wp-includes/formatting.php

I copied my sql database into XAMPP (editing paths where necessary of course), and moved my wp-content folder into my local XAMPP website folder “htdocs/mywebsite/” to replicate it off line.

This is the wrong way to move a WordPress installation to a new domain. You will want to export the online blog and import into a clean local installation. The reason that you will want to import/export is because WordPress stores path + url information in the database. While some of these are easy to change others (like serialized arrays for attachment metadata) are not really meant to be human editable.

Please see the following codex article for details:

http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Importing_Content#WordPress

@lbsources – Same solution. I’m not sure how you are listing the events on your pages, but more than likely it’s some sort of custom query. As long as you change all the queries on your site that produce an events list, you should be fine and will never have to schedule event posts in the future.