By the WP coding guide, please, use WP Plugin API. In your case place the following code into start of the main .php file of the plugin. // Working directory definition. define( ‘MY_PLUGIN_DIR’, plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) ); // Attaching executable require_once MY_PLUGIN_DIR . ‘folder/class-my-class.php’;
Thanks for your comments and guidance. I implemented solutions which didn’t reinvent the wheel. The complication was finding a way to remove the [insert_php][/insert_php] wrapped code from pages and posts and still preserve the content and user experience. Custom Template Pages Pages and Posts which were almost entirely PHP were made into custom template files. … Read more
To enqueue styles and scripts properly, use the wp_enqueue_scripts action like so: function wpa_63708_enqueue_scripts() { wp_register_script( ‘my-script’,’/path/to/script’ ); wp_enqueue_script( ‘my-script’ ); } add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘wpa_63708_enqueue_scripts’ );
Place your file in the same directory as the template. On the single.php and page.php files you’ll want to include: <?php include(‘your_file.php’); ?>
You are returning the result of calling include. You want to grab the output of the included file and return than instead. Use output buffering to do that. function build_total_search_method( $atts ) { ob_start(); include( dirname(__FILE__) . “/includes/total_search.php” ); $shorcode_php_function = ob_get_clean(); return $shorcode_php_function; } add_shortcode( ‘total_search’, ‘build_total_search_method’ );
Quoting this answer, which came up when I searched for your error message: (emphasis mine) You cannot use “use” where you are using it. The “use” keyword is either in front of a class definition to import other classes/interfaces/traits into it’s own namespace, or it is inside the class (but not inside a method) to … Read more
Ok, so somehow I got it working by changing it to this: It looks like it didn’t like ‘the_clientId’. Maybe it just doesn’t like capital letters???? [insert-form form_location=”form.php” identification_number=”12345″] function insert_the_form($atts){ $form_base = plugin_dir_path(__DIR__); // Shortcode attributes & options $atts = shortcode_atts( array( ‘form_location’ => ‘NULL’, ‘identification_number’ => ‘NULL’ //Variable for client ID ), $atts, … Read more
This is common issue when migrating from one host to another. You have those errors because path to include file is not correct (path do not exist on new host). Maybe you used absolute paths to files on old host, now, on new host path is different and that is why you have those errors … Read more
I’ve created a new file, specified the encoding as “UTF-8” and retyped everything by hand – no copy/paste from the old file. Took a while, but all works now. It must have been some encoding errors playing up. Thanks to everyone who helped: @t31os, @kaiser, @Chip Bennett
For plugins it is: $plugin_url = plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ); This works even if wp-content is on a separate domain. You may get problems if your class is in a subdirectory of the plugin – you should probably make the __FILE__ a parameter for a function: public function get_plugin_url( $base = __FILE__ ) { return plugin_dir_url( … Read more