By now, you’ve probably advanced in your WordPress knowledge and made your way through this problem. But, in this Question, we can see that you are mixing lots of concepts. To get clear what a Child Theme is, read this entry of the Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes This is the header from the style.css file of a … Read more
Adding the date is potentially as simple as inserting the_time() in the appropriate place in the template if you’re editing the template files. However, it looks like you’re using a child theme, so we have to use WordPress’s system of filters. To add the date to the post, try filtering the titles. Add this to … Read more
Posting the answer that was solved by OP in one of the comments. This way it’s easier to read it. Hopefully a moderator can mark the question as solved. .page-template-template-magazine-php .post-meta, .category-services .post-meta { display:none; }
Constants can not be redefined that easily. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8465155/redefine-constants-in-php So, the constants from child themes will be used instead of parents one. Though, there will be a warning, but that shouldn’t create any problem if you disable warning. You should add constants like this if you don’t want any warning: if ( !defined(‘CONSTANT’) ) define(‘CONSTANT’, ‘constant_value’); … Read more
I’d encourage you to take one step further back and avoid using URLs to determine theme at all. (And FYI, what you’re describing are subfolders, not subdomains which would be red.example.com.) The reason not to do this is to avoid duplicate content issues with search engines. Technically, you could work around them, but it can … Read more
Can you place custom .php files directly inside the child theme folder? Yes, of course you can. WordPress is PHP. What works in PHP works in WordPress. Some of the research we found says you must write your custom PHP functions inside of the functions.php file. Nonsense. Many themes segregate code into multiple files, including … Read more
If “line 45” is the one that starts with $element->classes[] in your display_element method then try something like this: public function display_element( $element, &$children_elements, $max_depth, $depth = 0, $args, &$output ) { $element->has_children = ! empty( $children_elements[ $element->ID ] ); if ( ! isset( $element->classes ) ) { $element->classes = array(); } $element->classes[] = ( … Read more
This is how to code the shortcode function foobar_func( $atts ){ return “foo and bar”; } add_shortcode( ‘foobar’, ‘foobar_func’ ); And to execute a function using output buffering add_shortcode( ‘shortcode_tag’, ‘function_name’ ); function function_name($atts) { ob_start(); // Add your code $var = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); return $var; }
First thing first, that’s a very good question! Now let me tell you what I’ve done to definitely kill the annoying proceedings you have described. Keep WordPress under Git Control. There are a multitude of articles on the web that can guide you from the basics to advanced steps. I used to repeat the proceedings … Read more
Our problem was that our style.css file was in a css folder inside the child theme directory, not at the root of the child theme. When we placed a style.css file at the root and included the comment block with theme name and template it picked up the functions.php file as expected.