As has been mentioned, your way works, but there are some ways you can decouple the form from the template, allowing more flexibility. The Shortcode API allows you to create a shortcode for your form, so you can simply enter something like [my_form] in the page’s content, then within the function that handles your shortcode … Read more
Add an endpoint to your post permalink, name it clean. In your callback for template_redirect use a special header.php or none at all. Do not forget to call exit;; otherwise WordPress will load the default template files later.
In your functions.php function show_all_thumbs() { global $post; $post = get_post($post); $images =& get_children( ‘post_type=attachment&post_mime_type=image&output=ARRAY_N&orderby=menu_order&order=ASC&post_parent=”.$post->post_parent); if($images) { foreach( $images as $imageID => $imagePost ){ unset($the_b_img); $the_b_img = wp_get_attachment_image($imageID, “thumbnail’, false); $thumblist .= ‘<a href=”‘.get_attachment_link($imageID).'”>’.$the_b_img.'</a>’; } } return $thumblist; } In your page template file: $loop = new WP_Query( array( ‘post_type’ => ‘demo’, // or whatever … Read more
As I’ve already wrote in question comments, at the very beginning of creating the new post or page first choose a template and save as draft. Meta box will appear after save if right template is used. <?php add_action( ‘add_meta_boxes’, ‘my_add_meta_box’ ); function my_add_meta_box() { // get template file name $template_basename = wp_basename( get_page_template() ); … Read more
Instead of using page templates to define layouts, define layouts using custom post meta. The custom post meta can then be shown or not shown using is_plugin_active(). If you’re going to define the page template itself in the Theme, then you’re pretty much stuck with doing something like determining if the Plugin is active (which, … Read more
Inspect get_queried_object(). On an archive for the category Uncategorized you get something like … stdClass Object ( [term_id] => 1 [name] => Uncategorized [slug] => uncategorized [term_group] => 0 [term_taxonomy_id] => 1 [taxonomy] => category Find out in which kind of archive am I => [parent] => 0 [count] => 8 [cat_ID] => 1 [category_count] … Read more
wp_get_attachment_image_src returns an array, not a single value. Please refer to this article for more info: wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_attachment_image_src Default Usage <?php $attachment_id = 8; // attachment ID $image_attributes = wp_get_attachment_image_src( $attachment_id ); // returns an array ?> <img src=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/87552/<?php echo $image_attributes[0]; ?>” width=”<?php echo $image_attributes[1]; ?>” height=”<?php echo $image_attributes[2]; ?>”>
why don’t you use WordPress ajax hooks. It is really simple. first call the function from javascript or jQuery use the key as ‘action’ and value as ‘function hook name’ jQuery(document).ready(function($) { var data = { action: ‘my_action’, // here is the function name whatever: 1234 // if there are the data you want to … Read more
When you add a custom post type, WordPress doesn’t know that it needs to regenerate it’s permalinks/rewrite rules. Visit the permalinks settings page to flush and regenerate the links and your custom post type permalinks will start to work, else you’ll get 404 messages. A word of warning: Some people will advise you call flush_rewrite_rules … Read more
If I understand you… Your theme may only have an index.php and a single.php but WordPress supports a much more complicated templating system, and you can control the formatting of different types of content just by creating files with the right names. In your case, I think that at least one of the files you … Read more