I’m starting a new plugin with OOP style What does ‘OOP style’ means for you? Wrapping all your functions with a class statement? Then you doing it wrong. You missuse the class as namespace. and I just found out that my main class is being instanciated a lot Huh? class Foo { public function __construct() … Read more
You can modify your menu by using walker. include(‘subMenu.php’); $menu = wp_nav_menu( array(‘menu’ => ‘YOUR-MENU-NAME’,’menu_class’ => ‘megamenu’,’walker’ => new subMenu)); create a file subMenu.php in theme folder add below code. <?php class subMenu extends Walker_Nav_Menu { function end_el(&$output, $item, $depth=0, $args=array()) { if( ‘Item 3’ == $item->title ){ $output .= ‘<ul class=”sub-menu”> <li class=”menu-item” id=”menu-item-48″><a … Read more
In short, yes the – $wpdb class. See Codex for more information. Whenever you interact with a custom table (or any table, really) you should go through $wpdb – in particularly make sure you’re familiar with the prepare method which can help escapes queries and prevent injections. You should be familiar with already, as you … Read more
Create WordPress as a project. I have several such projects, trunk, old versions … for the following, I just use a project named WP Latest Final. You can use the standard installation with /wp-content/plugins. I put my wp-content directory in a Dropbox and tell WP via wp-config.php where to search for it. Create a new … Read more
You don’t need to invent a new screen option row. Just use proper metaboxes. Currently, you are drawing pseudo-metaboxes: <!– Post status start–> <div class = “postbox”> <div class = “handlediv”> <br> </div> <h3 class = “hndle”><span><?php _e(“By Post Status”, ‘bulk-delete’); ?></span></h3> <div class = “inside”> <h4><?php _e(“Select the posts which you want to delete”, … Read more
My point of view is that main purpose and benefit of Settings API is structure. It helps to keep complex settings setups: orderly (logic of registration and sections); secure (nonces, validation callbacks); extensible (hooking into another page or allowing to be hooked into). As with any such structural overhead it benefits more complex use cases … Read more
WordPress as a nice function is_active_widget that you can use in your __construct and test if the widget is present in the current page and add your scripts/styles based on that ex: function __construct() { parent::__construct(__CLASS__, ‘BasicWidget’, array( ‘classname’ => __CLASS__, ‘description’ => “This is a basic widget template that outputs text to the sidebar” … Read more
I wrote a PHP class that allows a plugin developer to incorporate updates from GitHub within their plugin. Here’s a link for it -> https://github.com/jkudish/WordPress-GitHub-Plugin-Updater
Send and email to [email protected] and they can help you try to get in touch with the original plugin author. If the author is no where to be found and you can show that your able to keep it up to date it is possible that you could be allowed to take it over.
in your code above use get_the_excerpt() instead of the_excerpt(), because the last one will output the excerpt to the screen, and not pass it to your other functions…