Why don’t theme developers just use get_stylesheet_directory if it would work for the parent or child theme? The answer is not complicated: “Because you may not want it to work for either the parent or a child theme.” You choose the function that fits the situation. For example, you have a set of files in … Read more
When a function is hooked, it is easy to change that in a child theme. What you need to do is Remove the original call back function Copy the function to your child theme and rename it. Do your customizations as needed Rehook your call back function You can try the following: // Remove the … Read more
As you mentioned, a child theme is designed exactly for the purpose of not losing your changes upon updating the parent theme. Updating the child theme is not always mandatory, however there might be cases that you should do so. Consider this: You update the parent, and the update removes some of core functions, which … Read more
from your question i under that you want fixed size cropped images when you upload image, why don’t you use wp_get_image_editor. I used it in my project where i wanted cropped images of fixed size so i did this code. $path = $newPath[‘basedir’].’/newImgas/’; $cropfile = uniqid() . ‘.png’; $cropfilename = $path.$cropfile; $cropImage = home_url(). ‘/wp-content/uploads/newImgas/’.$cropfile; … Read more
Child themes are loaded before the parent theme. That’s why you’re able to replace functions that are wrapped in function_exists(). When themes use function_exists() they are taking advantage of the fact that child themes are loaded first to let the child theme define a function with the same name without throwing an error. The reason … Read more
Absolutely! Into functions.php, like you said. I’ll call it cache_busting_styles because I like how it sounds. First, you set up the style via wp_enqueue_style, then call it during the action hook wp_print_styles, Also, you’ll want to set up a variable and pass it in there as the version number as well: function cache_busting_styles() { //however … Read more
This is possibly because you had a menu assigned, then you changed themes, and now there is no longer a menu assigned. Because WordPress generates slightly different html for an assigned menu than for an autogenerated menu, this is likely why you have the issue. For example, on a theme of mine Im developing, if … Read more
Note: This is the merged version between my and @toscho answers. Explanation (by @toscho) Use add_meta_boxes_page as action hook. You can find the hook in wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php and it displays as: do_action(‘add_meta_boxes_’ . $post_type, $post); Solution(s) Try the following action, which is inside register_post_type() as well. function wpse59607_remove_meta_box( $callback ) { remove_meta_box( ‘id-of-meta-box’ , ‘page’ , … Read more
WordPress does not really track what theme files are loaded beyond some basic things (for example $template global holds main template file). You can use PHP’s native get_included_files() to list all PHP source files loaded during request and narrow it down to your theme. Note that for more complex themes this will have not only … Read more
When you set a child theme, basically WP looks into 2 directories to see if there are some overriding to make. So it adds some impact on performance. The use of @import in child CSS can also have some bad impact on performance grade. Most of the time, it depends on the parent’s theme quality. … Read more