Someone else had tried to help my client. They had enabled debugging in /wp-config.php define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true); When I turned off debugging, the site and admin loaded correctly.
I never cleared the cache on my machine so the changes were not reflected on my site as it was loading a cached version of the webpage, but once I cleared my cache I then saw the changes.
You are most probably trying to use wp_create_category() on the front end, which will lead to the fatal error. wp_create_category() is not available on the front end, only backend. You should hook your function to at least admin_init where wp_create_category() is available. Just a note, looking at the source code, wp_create_category() uses category_exists() which is … Read more
Line 3846 in wp-includes/functions.php is in a function named _deprecated_function(), which warns about the use of deprecated functions. I did a quick search of my copy of 4.9.4 core and didn’t find any instances of wpdb->escape() or get_current_site_name(), the two functions you’re actually being warned about. Most likely, the deprecated functions are in a plugin … Read more
Probably. Just do the following before updating: Do a direct SQL backup of the database Export your site content Disable all Plugins Switch to the default Theme Then update to the latest version. If anything goes wrong, just restore from your backups, and try an iterative update.
get_user_by is the replacement for get_user_by_email: $user = get_user_by( ’email’, ‘[email protected]’ );
The Line $theme = wp_get_theme(); returns a WP_Theme Object, and you cannot use an Object in an Array like this. Use $templates = $themes[$theme->template][‘Template Files’]; To get the Array of your template Files. In Order to get this function running again, you also have to change Single Post Template to Template Name: if (preg_match( ‘|Template … Read more
you make a mistake in the call of add_action the last parameters must be changed from 1 to 2 add_action(‘pre_get_posts’,’shop_filter_cat’,10,2);
It’s hard to find because the hook name is generated dynamically. All the get_ functions in the WooCommerce product class, like $product->get_price(), use the get_prop() method under the hood. This is part of the WC_Data class that WC_Product extends. At the end of get_prop() the filters are applied like this: apply_filters( $this->get_hook_prefix() . $key, $value, … Read more
The following worked for me to show only the current user’s posts in the admin add_action( ‘load-edit.php’, ‘posts_for_current_author’ ); function posts_for_current_author() { global $user_ID; /*if current user is an ‘administrator’ do nothing*/ //if ( current_user_can( ‘add_users’ ) ) return; /*if current user is an ‘administrator’ or ‘editor’ do nothing*/ if ( current_user_can( ‘edit_others_pages’ ) ) … Read more