WordPress’ new menu system is both wondrous and infinitely frustrating, depending on what you are trying to do and what day of the week it happens to be. 🙂 It’s a great idea but far from mature so while it’s a feature I applaud I’ll be happier when v3.3 or v3.4 of WordPress rolls out … Read more
Assuming you are using WordPress v3.x (as I don’t remember how this works in earlier versions) this is what you need to do if starting from scratch: Create a “Page“ and call it “Home Page” (or whatever.) Create another Page and call it “Blog” (or whatever.) In the admin console select the “Settings” > “Reading” … Read more
You could use a function inside your theme’s functions file to selectively disable it for specific users. function disable_bar_for_user( $ids ) { if( !is_user_logged_in() ) return; global $current_user; if( is_numeric( $ids ) ) $ids = (array) $ids; if( !in_array( $current_user->data->ID, $ids ) ) return; add_filter( ‘show_admin_bar’, ‘__return_false’, 9 ); } Then call it for the … Read more
You’ve got a couple of options here, but they’re all pretty hacky … iFrame The easiest way would be to script your external application in whatever language you want and embed it in a typical WordPress page using an iFrame. Applet Java, Flash, Air, and Silverlight are all objects embedded directly into HTML pages. If … Read more
The first step is setting up the cron job. The second part requires querying the database for a specific post type where the entry is older than 1 week. We can do this with get_posts() and specifying the category argument and the date_query argument. //* If the scheduled event got removed from the cron schedule, … Read more
The problem lies in this line: <?php echo wp_trim_words( the_content(), 55, $moreLink); ?> You call the_content function in there. This function prints all the content and doesn’t return anything. It means that you print the content, and then pass an empty string to the wp_trim_words. It should be: <?php echo wp_trim_words( get_the_content(), 55, $moreLink); ?> … Read more
This code may help resolve the issue for this particular situation. Put this code in yor theme’s functions.php. add_action(‘template_redirect’, ‘default_page’); function default_page(){ if(is_home() or is_front_page()){ exit( wp_redirect(“http://path/to/your/html/file”)); } } Replace http://path/to/your/html/file to exact url of html file. I hope this helps.
It’s all site-dependent. I have a few core things I build in to any theme’s functions.php though: Change logo on admin page to suit the client’s company Hide WP-Stats smiley graphic Hide WP.me short URLs and replace with their chosen provider Add option for Twitter, Facebook, and Buzz buttons and ability to pull in Tweets … Read more
i had the save problem: it’s because if you don’t create the menu in the admin wordpress use a fallback method and creates the menu out of all active pages … and if this happens than the options from wp_nav_menu are not used … so: just create the menu in the admin and u can … Read more
There is a good plugin that adds a meta check box under all pages that indicates whether you want the page to show up in menus. Exclude Pages Plugin The other option is to convert from wp_list_pages to the new custom menus. When using custom menus only pages you add to the menu will be … Read more