How to disable core and plugin updates
Yes you can do that… define( ‘DISALLOW_FILE_MODS’, true ); Put this snippet in your wp-config.php file and you will able to disable core and plugin updates.
plugins
Can I leave off plugin textdomain for terms used in core?
Never rely on core strings for translation, they may change or get a context parameter any time. Once that happens your users get a partially translated interface, and your translators have no way to fix that. Also keep in mind the same string is not necessary translated everywhere with the same word. Even without a … Read more
What are the best practices for updating?
Do not just upgrade immediately. Take the time you need for an informed decision. And make a backup, of course. 🙂 Read the changelog for the new version. Example for 3.4.1. The blog announcements and the Codex pages are not complete. Test the upgrade with an exact copy of your production site, including plugins and … Read more
How do I replace a function, declared inside a plugin’s class, in functions.php?
This should work: add_action( ‘woocommerce_init’, ‘remove_wcpgsk_email_order_table’ ); function remove_wcpgsk_email_order_table() { global $wcpgsk; remove_action( ‘woocommerce_email_after_order_table’, array( $wcpgsk, ‘wcpgsk_email_after_order_table’ ) ); }
how to create child WordPress plugin
the Best way to do this is have your X plugin made with its own hooks for actions and filters so new plugins (in your case Y) could interact with plugin X’s functions and data. Defining your own hooks is fairly easy and simple. Action Hook from the codex: Actions are the hooks that the … Read more
How to get home page ID?
$pageID = get_option(‘page_on_front’); should get you the Page ID of the page set at ‘Front Page’ in WordPress options.
Override WordPress user with Oauth2 account
If you can stick to overriding just functions that are located in wp-includes/pluggable.php then you should be able to avoid any kind of plugin conflicts … unless you are using plugins that are overriding the same pluggable functions. Just make sure that your functions are declared before pluggables is loaded. Plugins are loaded before the … Read more
How to make plugin required in a wp theme without using php conditional statements when calling an individual function from that plugin?
is_plugin_active() is rather fragile: it will break when either the plugin author renames the main file or when the user renames the plugin’s directory or main file. It’s better to check if a certain public function exists. To avoid having to make that check each time you need some of the plugin’s functionality, you could … Read more
Does the number of downloads displayed for a plug-in in the WordPress.org plug-in directory include automatic updates?
That’s the total number of downloads. It includes direct downloads in the Repository and installs/updates done in the dashboard. Quotes from Otto comments in this 2010 article about the stats charts in every plugin’s page. […] the download count includes direct downloads as well […] There is no “raw count” anywhere on that version number … Read more
What plugins do you commonly install on a fresh WordPress install?
These are my common plugins that I always install on all my blogs: Akismet – Fighting with spam. I use only this plugin and it does the job very well Auto Post Thumbnail – I’m lazy with setting the featured image. This plugin will auto take the 1st image in post content and set it … Read more