Are you absolutely certain that you don’t accidentally have a closing php tag where you shouldn’t? – yes – turned out to be that I had <? rather than <?php – probably the new server was set differently – as per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2185320/how-to-enable-php-short-tags
I would start by creating in the themes functions.php a function like this public function greenday_head($args) { return $args } It may be that $args are never passed in but it seems likely they are. If you want to try to find out what this is doing then you can add: public function greenday_head($args) { … Read more
Looks like the author didn’t include the check for menu items before calling the top nav bar. Two methods: Dashboard –> appearance –> customize –> Additional CSS add the following piece of code and save changes: #topnav { display:none; } Create a child theme and include this page neville\template-parts\partials\headers\header-tmpl-default.php. Make sure to remove the below … Read more
WordPress has a ton of the get_the_*() functions which you can pass an ID and return a value you’re looking for. In this case you can call get_the_title() which returns the title of a post. An example could look like: echo get_the_title( 3249 );
You can add this code to your functions.php function add_style_select_buttons( $buttons ) { array_unshift( $buttons, ‘styleselect’ ); return $buttons; } // Register our callback to the appropriate filter add_filter( ‘mce_buttons_2’, ‘add_style_select_buttons’ ); //add custom styles to the WordPress editor function my_custom_styles( $init_array ) { $style_formats = array( // These are the custom styles array( ‘title’ … Read more
You can just make a simple check, to see if you have this meta $author = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), ‘Author:’, true); if ( $author ) : echo ‘@ ‘ . $author; endif;
Giving the CSS of background #FFFFFF url(‘images/newbackground.gif’); is just giving an example based on basic CSS. Be careful when copying the suggestions made in the book because you missed an important colon after background. It should be background: #FFFFFF url(‘images/newbackground.gif’); Also, you need to make sure the URL part of the CSS is correct for … Read more
WP 3.1 introduces set_post_thumbnail() function, that sets attachment (that you will need to create first, you seem to be on right track with wp_insert_atachment()) as thumbnail for the post.
Check for the post type with the post ID: if ( $post[‘post_id’] && get_post( $post[‘post_id’] ) && ‘post’ === get_post_type( $post[‘post_id’] ) )
You can use Open Graph Protocol to define the data Facebook fetches from your site: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraphprotocol/ The metatag for the description has this form: <meta property=”og:description” content=”my custom description for single post” /> You can use plugins, like http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-facebook-open-graph-protocol/ to do it for you. You can then debug your page here: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug to see how … Read more