If you are developing a theme, the proper place to put your code in this case if your theme’s functions.php file. This is the file that is surely going to be run when your website is being accessed. If you are developing a plugin, you can put your code inside a php file (like foo.php) … Read more
At a first glance it makes sense, but… When exactly would that function be used? When user opens post editor, you can easily hook to that action and set the lock. But when would you remove it? After saving? No – user is still editing, so the lock should be on. It should be removed … Read more
Some time ago, I started a site that served as my professional portfolio. It was running on WordPress, so when I decided to add a blog it was really easy to just flip a switch and start writing. As time went on, though, I realized that the blog and the portfolio served totally different purposes … Read more
See Add multiple plugin directories for one way to do this. In an earlier project I did something similar, but I used a dedicated theme options page for my theme plugins. Looking back … I wouldn’t do that again. Plugin updates are a too complicated, separated version control setups too. The client wasn’t always sure … Read more
I always develop the webiste locally on my machine with the setup mydomain.dev and using svn or git to save versions of the code. The next step is to put it on a test domain like stage.mydomain.com and after that mydomain.com I use this to change the url:s in the database: https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ Its a search … Read more
Here’s a great codex article on the topic of creating administration theme: http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Admin_Themes And back to your question, you will want to load different stylesheets for different user roles, so you have to check who the current user is. Pay attention, the check is done using current_user_can() function and checking for administrator is not being … Read more
OK, check out the theme developer handbook. $wp_customize->add_control( ‘reblog_number_control’, array( ‘label’ => __( ‘Number of Reblogs’, ‘tesseract-child’ ), ‘section’ => ‘tesseract_footer_options’, ‘settings’ => ‘number_of_reblogs’, ‘type’ => ‘text’, ‘priority’ => 10 ) ); Since you are in the child theme ‘title’ => __( ‘Reblog Options’, ‘tesseract’ ), shoudl be ‘title’ => __( ‘Reblog Options’, ‘tesseract-child’ ), … Read more
There is currently no way to create admin themes like Drupal. Here are some tips which cover most of the basic admin panel customization needs: http://www.cmurrayconsulting.com/wordpress-tips/customizing-wordpress-admin/
This description is generated by post_excerpt_meta_box() function and is not passed through any explicit filters. It is however echoed by translation-related _e() function and so passes through gettext filter (which from your question you are already familiar with). As for limiting it to your CPT, I think current post type in admin is held in … Read more
Use the defines to make it pick the site you want it to pick. You can define these four to setup the $current_site values properly: DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE, PATH_CURRENT_SITE, SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE, BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE. If you check the wpmu_current_site() function in ms-load.php, you’ll see that it uses those to create the $current_site global. You may or may not have to … Read more