Yes. It is possible and you’re on the right track! 🙂 AJAX calls happen “behind the scenes” and no screen output is generated during the process no matter what you echo or print_r – that’s why you don’t see anything returned to you – instead that server response is captured by javascript and acted upon … Read more
I presume WordPress plugins are made by third parties. For the moment, yes; all except for “Hello Dolly!” and “Akismet”, which are part of the core distribution. Do plugins have to be kept up to date with WordPress upgrades? Certainly they should be; but they’re not required to be kept up-to-date. Can plugins become obsolete? … Read more
this is a nice little re-write class created by: Author Kyle E Gentile I found this a while back which works a treat in most plugins I’ve created… Save the first section of code in a file called: add_rewrite_rules.php <?php /* //Author Kyle E Gentile //To use this class you must first include the file. … Read more
Using a plugin is always a quick and easy thing to do, until it goes wrong. I am a fan of less plugins (unless you really need them) and more hard-code reason is that you then have full control of what goes into your project. And at the comment on “plugins can become outdated and … Read more
If you’ve written the plugin, then I’d suggest you add something like this: // Define these constants once in your main plugin init file define( ‘YOUR_PLUGIN_SLUG’, ‘your-plugin-slug’ ); define( ‘YOUR_PLUGIN_DIR’, plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) ); define( ‘YOUR_PLUGIN_TEMPLATE_DIR’, trailingslashit( YOUR_PLUGIN_DIR ) . ‘templates’ ); define( ‘YOUR_PLUGIN_THEME_TEMPLATE_OVERRIDE_PATH_DIR’, trailingslashit( get_stylesheet_directory() . “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/” . YOUR_PLUGIN_SLUG ); // Define a function … Read more
You can use the translation option via “GlotPress” on each plugin in the official plugin repository. You find all relevant hints in this post of the make blog at wordpress.org. In short, on each plugin you have a translation link and that give all users the chance to contribute translations.
You need to use a meta_query to query custom fields. If you are going to store date and time in custom fields for the purpose of ordering or comparisons, you will need to store it in the format of yyyy-mm-dd h:m:s or as a unix timestamp. If you have two custom fields start and end … Read more
Even if a wp_list_categories filter exists, it passes (and so you have to return) the html markup generated by wp_list_categories() function. This means that if you want use that filter you have to alter the DOM with php, and even if it’s possible (hopefully using external php libraries), sure it’s not the best solution for … Read more
SUGGESTIONS I suggest the following: first ensure you are running WordPress version 5.5.* as this version adds the endpoints for /wp/v2/plugins see: New and modified REST API endpoints in WordPress 5.5 using basic authentication issue a request as per the following using curl curl –user username:password https://example.com/wp-json The first request should succeed regardless because it … Read more
I would look into PHP’s parse_url() and/or filter_var() with FILTER_VALIDATE_URL filter. parse_url() gives you a bit more control. Combine that with a sanitization as mentioned at the end. Here are couple use cases that will hopefully give you a better idea on how to proceed: If you want to verify that the url’s domain is … Read more