Bulma.io is likely to conflict with any styling that comes from Genesis (or any other theme). If you understand HTML/CSS, I recommend using bulma without any other themes/frameworks to avoid conflict/bloat. If you rely on any visual page builders, I would avoid CSS frameworks like bulma and just stick with themes. I’ve done a lot … Read more
You might want to look into creating a MU (Must Use) plugin, see WordPress Codex. Within this file, you can include your library (using require) or you could just tweak your library file a bit and use it directly as the MU plugin. The session_start() and ob_start() functions worked for me with ever-so-brief testing, but … Read more
You’re absolutely right. Frameworks like Thesis, Genesis, and Ultimatum (among others) are essentially barebones themes that allow for modular customization with child themes and skins (in terms of Thesis, though it’s been years since I used it, so that may have changed). I use Ultimatum as a framework for features, for instance, and have child … Read more
An options framework is designed to make the creation of settings pages for plugins and themes easier. An options (or settings) page is a page in the WordPress Dashboard where the behavior of the theme or plugin can be controlled. For example, themes will often have a settings page to setup color schemes, logos, and … Read more
However, in the event that it becomes appreciated to the public – does it necessarily HAVE to be inheritable (the ability to have Child Themes derive from it)? While you can certainly make life difficult on users who try to use your Theme as a template for a Child Theme, it is all but impossible … Read more
Most frameworks are specifically designed to easily handle a large range of applications, while WordPress is quite limited when it comes to using its API to create applications like the one you mentioned. If you want to compare WordPress as a PHP framework with existing popular frameworks, think of it as one of the worst … Read more
The WP_CLI class has a runcommand method that launches a new child process to run a specified WP-CLI command. According to the docs, you can use it like this: $options = array( ‘return’ => true, // Return ‘STDOUT’; use ‘all’ for full object. ‘parse’ => ‘json’, // Parse captured STDOUT to JSON array. ‘launch’ => … Read more
Filters are for modifying the data, but actions are like bus stops where you can attach your functions to theme and they will be run when the script reaches an specific state. To use any of the above, they must be first declared somewhere. Let’s take a look at this example from the codex page … Read more
The thing about WordPress, while it doesn’t have a neat routing system in principle it does same operation. It takes the URL input and matches it to a set of query variables. The not–neat thing about it is that it uses regular expressions for these not–quite–routes and a lot of them. The total number of … Read more
The only directory a theme or a plugin should write to is the uploads directory. That is the only directory with guaranteed write access (besides the server’s temporary directory). Anything else is wrong and might not work. There is no practical difference between both, except one: the upload directory may be on another (sub) domain … Read more