Store the value is a function or make it global; function get_variable_1(){ return 5; } OR global $variable_1; $variable_1 = 5; But.. really, what you need to do it to read a bit more about the basic of PHP to understand how variables and functions work – global variables are not really a good idea … Read more
When you use include parameter of wp_list_pages you are basically telling it to only include these certain Pages in the list. you should use exclude_tree instead, when using this parameter it will exclude a parent and all of that parent’s child Pages. so something like: $top_pages_to_exclude=”1″; // the top page to be excluded ID, you … Read more
WordPress has a function for including template parts, which you can use for that purpose : get_template_part You can also use include(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/includes/myfunction.php’);
Get the title into a variable, and use the variable in the included PHP instead: $title = get_the_title(); include “yourfile.php”; yourfile.php: <?php echo $title; ?>
The error indicates that your file “floater.php” is being called outside of a WordPress generated page. Add this to the top of the file to be able to use WordPress functions. EDIT: See Brian Fegter response on using the server path for your include. if ( !function_exists( ‘get_bloginfo’ ) ) require( ‘../../../wp-blog-header.php’ ); // check … Read more
It sounds as though your include file activate.php does not have the opening/closing php tags. Be sure to open activate.php and ensure it has the <?php at the beginning of the file, and the ?> at the end.
The problem here is that you’re not including yourtheme/includes/admin.php, you’re actually including wp-admin/includes/admin.php, so pass a full path to the require statement rather than a relative one e.g.: require(get_template_directory().’includes/admin.php’);
Each auto-draft gets its own ID, each revision, each nav item, page, custom post type … The actual ID of a post should be irrelevant, this is really just needed for the database and ugly permalinks. You cannot get the last 30 items by inspecting the post ID only. Install a REST API on the … Read more
WordPress has its own connection class, which can be used trough the $wpdb object. Is there a particular reason to use direct queries to the db, instead the wordpress functions (get_posts, get_post_meta, get_option)? Keep in mind that by doing this, you loose a lot of the wordpress tools, such as cache, filters, etc…
Use WordPress’ conditional tags, global variables, defines, class checks and the like. For instance like so: <?php // load helper functions – always require_once get_stylesheet_directory() . ‘/inc/helper-functions.php’; // load admin functions – for back-end only if ( is_admin() ) require_once get_stylesheet_directory() . ‘/inc/admin-functions.php’; // load WooCommerce functions – when WooCommerce is active if ( in_array( … Read more