They’re both doing the same thing. If you don’t pass a post ID, get_the_title() will just use the current post and go about it’s business. The performance difference between passing a postID and not passing a postID is, if anything at all, is extremely minor. get_the_title() Codex get_the_title() Core Function
In WordPress, name is a reserved term (emphasis mine): There is a complete set of reserved keywords, or terms, in WordPress that should not be used in certain circumstances as they may conflict with core functionality. You should avoid using any of these terms when: Passing a term through a $_GET or $_POST array Registering … Read more
Supposing you have a page created with the slug “referral”, you can add another segment to the page URL containing the employee ref number like this: 1- Register a new query variable e.g “employee_ref” add_filter(‘query_vars’, function ($query_vars){ $query_vars[] = ’employee_ref’; return $query_vars; }); 2- Using add_rewrite_rule function, add a new rule for the ’employee_ref’ to … Read more
The problem is that $content is a reserved variable in WordPress, you have to use another name. Here, I have used $pre_content: <?php /** * Plugin Name: T5 Editor content by request * Description: Default text for post content from GET variable <code>pre_content</code>. * Author: Fuxia Scholz * Version: 2012.06.30 */ /* * See wp-admin/includes/post.php … Read more
Per the OP’s answer within their question: With your help and some Googling, I put together a shortcode that returns the value of any url parameter. Here it is: //THIS IS A CUSTOM SHORTCODE TO DISPLAY A PARAMETER FROM THE URL function URLParam( $atts ) { extract( shortcode_atts( array( ‘param’ => ‘param’, ), $atts ) … Read more
You are using it wrong. add_action: attachs a function to an action hook. In your code, you are attaching alter_item funtion to admin_menu action hook. So, when admin_menu action happens, alter_item function is executed. According to codex, no parameters are passed to functions attached to admin_menu. So, the parameters your are trying to use in … Read more
Here is how you should create shortcode. First you will have to define $atts item in get_userdata because $atts is an array. Also I think there is also some issues with uppercase attributes names, so you should use attribute in lower case. So instead of userID, use userid. function getUserEmail_func( $atts ) { $user_info = … Read more
It was woocommerce, it has a setting “geolocalize users with cache support” which adds this parameter to every single url and link. I noticed that the hash appended was the same in every browser on my computer, so I realized it wasn’t a “session” hash, but an IP address hash.