Override Current Theme Setting in wp_config.php

Drop this in a plugin & activate. I should note this doesn’t take into account things like child themes – it’s purely for toggling which theme renders based on SOME_FLAG. add_filter( ‘stylesheet’, ‘switch_ma_theme’ ); add_filter( ‘template’, ‘switch_ma_theme’ ); function switch_ma_theme() { // Return the theme directory name return SOME_FLAG ? ‘theme-1’ : ‘theme-2’; }

Multisite behind Varnish

I found a fix here: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15936 You basically need to modify wp-includes/ms-settings.php like this (remove ‘-‘ lines; add the ‘+’ line): @@ -26,18 +26,8 @@ if ( !isset( $current_site ) || !isset( $current_blog ) ) { + $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] = preg_replace( ‘|:\d+$|’, ”, $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] ); $domain = addslashes( $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] ); – if ( false !== strpos( … Read more

Generate WordPress salt

Does WordPress core has this function defined somewhere? While I haven’t used it, you are probably looking for wp_salt or wp_generate_password. wp_salt is located in wp-includes/pluggable.php. can these salts be generated randomly Yes, of course. are there any specific rules for creating them There is no specific rule. The generic rule is to create long, … Read more

How to use live images on local install?

Try to filter the output URLs temporarily to replace them with online images, using the following code: add_filter( ‘wp_get_attachment_image_src’, function ( $image, $attachment_id, $size ) { // For thumbnails if ( $size ) { switch ( $size ) { case ‘thumbnail’: case ‘medium’: case ‘medium-large’: case ‘large’: $image[0] = str_replace( ‘localhost/’, ‘EXAMPLE.COM/’, $image[0] ); break; … Read more