How to use webpack in WordPress theme? I want some scripts to load in the footer, some in the header and some with script parameters

What is the right and clean way to load these files in WordPress? The same way as you’ve always done it, wp_enqueue_script. WordPress is unaware that webpack created the javascript file, and it is just that, a javascript file. This is true wether it contains jquery, was written by hand, or was created by a … Read more

Function attached to cron job not running but will run if called manually

It looks like the time() was not set correctly in the first iteration of the function wp_schedule_event; First, remove this task from the queue by adding a function wp_clear_scheduled_hook and reload the page. For your example: wp_clear_scheduled_hook( ‘opportunities_cron_job’ ); Remove the cleaning function. Restart your code. If your date is not set correctly again, use … Read more

Execute wp_after_insert_post after the permalink is customized

To execute update_post_meta after the permalink is customized, you can use the save_post hook instead of wp_after_insert_post. Here’s how you can modify your code: add_action(‘save_post’, ‘add_permalink_to_new_post’, 10, 2); function add_permalink_to_new_post($post_id, $post) { // Check if this is a new post if ($post->post_date_gmt == $post->post_modified_gmt) { // Only run this on a newly created post update_post_meta($post_id, … Read more

YouTube embeds Cross-Origin Request Blocked (CORB) error

I have found out that i have enabled tracking protection in that particular Firefox profile. A relevant warning, which i oversaw by just displaying the errors, was also displayed. The resource at “https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/id” was blocked because content blocking is enabled. Apparently https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/id. does honor the tracking protection setting. Today i learned to use a clean … Read more

BuddyPress Edit activity function good practice

Looking at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/bp-activity/bp-activity-functions.php there’s several functions: Activity Meta I found bp_activity_add_meta, bp_activity_delete_meta and bp_activity_update_meta in that file, e.g. bp_activity_update_meta: // Update activity meta counts. if ( bp_activity_update_meta( $activity_id, ‘favorite_count’, $fav_count ) ) { Activities It looks like these can be updated the same way wp_insert_post can be used to update a post, by calling bp_activity_add … Read more

Proper way to load styles using a child theme

If you want to prevent HELLO from loading it’s own styles, this is the code to paste and adjust in your child theme’s functions.php : function hello_elementor_scripts_styles() { // Dequeue parent theme stylesheets wp_dequeue_style( ‘hello-elementor’ ); wp_deregister_style( ‘hello-elementor’ ); wp_dequeue_style( ‘hello-elementor-theme-style’ ); wp_deregister_style( ‘hello-elementor-theme-style’ ); wp_dequeue_style( ‘hello-elementor-header-footer’ ); wp_deregister_style( ‘hello-elementor-header-footer’ ); // Enqueue only child … Read more

Adding a css class to the gallery

If you look at the gallery shortcode you will see that you are using the wrong filter. With post_gallery you can override the complete html of the shortcode. Your code performs a str_replace on an empty string, resulting in an empty return and subsequently the generation of the default gallery html. Further on there is … Read more

Calling a function via a shortcode in javascript

I’m afraid the code you’ve shared is rather wonky and there isn’t just one thing that is backwards. Here are the first few things that came into my mind. add_filter( ‘learn-press/after-content-item-summary/lp_lesson’, ‘psb_comment_listener_func’); When you attach a callback function to a filter with add_filter, the callback should return a value. If the callback isn’t supposed to … Read more

How to automatically flush permalinks?

To automatically flush permalinks every hour, use the following code: Hook the scheduling function to init. Schedule an hourly event if not already scheduled. Hook the scheduled event to a function. Define the function to flush rewrite rules. // Hook the scheduling function add_action( ‘init’, ‘schedule_my_hourly_event’ ); // Schedule the event function schedule_my_hourly_event() { if … Read more