Short answer: the update API. Whenever your WordPress install makes an update check, it’ll ping wordpress.org with information about all the plugins you have, versions etc., but also whether they are currently activated or not – they then aggregate all this data from all active WordPress installs and hey presto, you get an idea of … Read more
Two ways to handle this. a. Attach a timer to the notice: You could attach a 3-second timer (or however long you wish) to the notice, as follows: <?php set_transient( “my-plugin”, “alive”, 3 ); add_action( ‘admin_notices’, function() { //Syntax correction if ( “alive” == get_transient( “my-plugin” ) ) { ?> <div class=”notice notice-success is-dismissible”> <p><?php … Read more
A post or page has only one title, the title tag <title> is the document title. The filter wp_title filters the output of wp_title() function, which was used before to output the title of the document. In WordPress 4.1, the title-tag support in themes was introduced and wp_get_document_title() is used instead of wp_title(). So, if … Read more
http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ Good luck. It’s a very long list and Otto normally becomes very angry if someone try to scrape the complete SVN-Repo.
You can get the slug in the options table, stored under the name stylesheet. echo get_option(‘stylesheet’);
Take a close look at add_menu_page hook, it provides argument to supply with icon url <?php add_menu_page( $page_title, $menu_title, $capability, $menu_slug, $function, $icon_url, $position ); http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_menu_page add_menu_page( __(‘Poll’,’menu-test’), __(‘Poll’,’menu-test’), ‘manage_options’, ‘manage-polls’, ‘poll_page’, ‘plugins_folder Or Theme folder url/icon.png’ );
The most important question which you must ask yourself is Am I the author of the theme or plugin?. If your answer is yes, and you are responsible for the up keep of the plugin or theme, go ahead and change it and modify as you like. If your answer is no, then you should … Read more
Update The following workaround is necessary for users who are using WordPress older than version 4.4. If you are using WordPress v4.4+ then you don’t need to go for such an extensive work-around. Simply follow the Usman Siddiqui’s answer, and it’s that easy. Actual Answer You can add a favicon into your WordPress site in … Read more
Add the following code to your functions.php: function allow_contributor_uploads() { $contributor = get_role(‘contributor’); $contributor->add_cap(‘upload_files’); } if ( current_user_can(‘contributor’) && !current_user_can(‘upload_files’) ) { add_action(‘admin_init’, ‘allow_contributor_uploads’); } This will add the upload_files capability to the Contributor role. It only needs to run once; just login to admin as a user with the Contributor role. After it successfully … Read more
That’s not a good practice trying to connect the DB by your own methods while WP does it for you initially. The problem with this is that I have to declare these variables ($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass, $db_name) inside the plugin source code. All these properties are defined in wp-config.php file, located in the root area. … Read more