One way could be to use classes and objects. It’s more efficient considering reusability, collective work and more. I don’t think it’s bad to use global variables if you know what you’re doing. So I would recommand you to use OOP (object oriented programming) especially with inheritance and polymorphism.
First of all there is no easy way to convert a design from figma to a wordpress theme. After the documentation/ blog you can not export your design as HTML, which means you have to build the basic HTML structur by your self. The only thing what you can export are the styles (css rules) … Read more
Theme template files are organized in this way because of the WordPress Template Hierarchy. Since all primary template files eventually fallback to index.php, it is certainly possible to use only the index.php primary template file. There are advantages and disadvantages to using either method. Generally speaking, the usefulness/efficiency of defining template files is inversely proportional … Read more
Following the previous answers, in most cases I would stick to the WordPress default styles and patterns — for design and also markup, functions, APIs and cod, not only the CSS –, specially if it’s a plugin to the general public and to be hosted in the official repository. As Milan pointed out “There are … Read more
Personally. I would archive the 2010/etc sites to Pure HTML. This plugin would do the job http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/static-html-output-plugin/ This WordPress codex post describes another method. With using WordPress in its own Sub Directory and archiving sites: http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory#Pointing_your_home_site.27s_URL_to_a_subdirectory
Some said this rockable book is awesome, though I don’t buy it myself. I’m backend wordpress developer not front end, so I guess this book is not for me.
You can try this Random from a set of images : <img src=”http://www.mywebsite.com/images/image_<?php echo rand(1,10); ?>.jpg” alt=”” /> This would load a random image from image_1.jpg, image_2.jpg … to image_10.jpg or $images = array(“cool_image.jpg”, “nice_pic.jpg”, “sunset.jpg”); $rand = array_rand($images); <img src=”http://www.mywebsite.com/images/<?php echo $images[$rand]; ?>” alt=”” /> This would select a randow image from thoses specified … Read more
Sounds like what you want is a Custom Page Template It’s quite simple, if you want to call your layout “My Special Layout” just create a file in your Theme Directory calling it whatever you like (I’d call it “page-my-special-layout.php” but that’s not required) and add the following comment to the top of the template … Read more
Onextrapixel’s blog post How To Design And Style Your WordPress Plugin Admin Panel isn’t an official reference, but it is a nicely detailed one.
What you tried to use is broken. add_filter( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘modified_pre_get_posts’ ); function modified_pre_get_posts( WP_Query $query ) { if ( $query->is_search() ) { $query->set( ‘post_type’, array( ‘page-home’ ) ); } return $query; } That function definition is not valid. You would have seen an error if you had debugging enabled. You need: add_filter( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘modified_pre_get_posts’ ); … Read more