No one else should touch your live site. What you should do: Create an exact copy of your site, preferably on the same server, so the software context is the same. This second site is the test site that should run with the same theme, plugins, content and WordPress version as the live site. It … Read more
If you include a plugin directly inside a theme then it will be rejected by both the WordPress.org theme directory and ThemeForest. You should use TGMPA for including plugins with themes: http://tgmpluginactivation.com/ Further reading: http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/using-the-tgm-plugin-activation-library-in-your-themes–cms-20901 Using TGMPA means the plugin remains a plugin, WordPress loads it in the normal ‘plugin’ way, and users will get … Read more
is it “strange” that this hooks is called more than once? No, not at all – this filter will fire anytime get_option( ‘active_plugins’ ) is called, which almost certainly happens multiple times per request.
I’m not sure what more you need that the example there, and remember that some scripts are needed for stuff like the admin bar and are not enqueued if you are not logged in. function wpdocs_dequeue_script() { wp_dequeue_script( ‘jquery-ui-core’ ); } add_action( ‘wp_print_scripts’, ‘wpdocs_dequeue_script’, 100 ); This will dequeue the jquery-ui-core js. Adding more lines … Read more
Go into the PHP file for the plugin and change the information in the header comment. For example, this is the one from the Hello Dolly plugin that comes with WordPress: /** * @package Hello_Dolly * @version 1.6 */ /* Plugin Name: Hello Dolly Plugin URI: http://wordpress.org/plugins/hello-dolly/ Description: This is not just a plugin, it … Read more
You could use get_comments(), this way you don’t have to loop through posts. <?php $args = array( ‘post_author’ => ” // fill in post author ID ); $author_comments = get_comments($args); echo count($author_comments); ?>
Generally self–hosted version of WordPress is not considered to have types. Other than multisite for hosting multiple sites on single WordPress installation. From quick look you seem to have used hosted site from a company that built on top of WordPress. To switch to a generic self–hosted WP installation you would need to: Acquire standard … Read more
There isn’t really a prescribed way to do this, but it’s probably safer to hook an action like init to be sure everything you need is loaded, and then maybe check for some sort of flag so you can control which page loads run your code. function my_test_func(){ if( isset( $_GET[‘do_my_test_thing’] ) ){ // your … Read more
You could create a shortcode with only one attribute and that attribute could be the ID of a custom post type or the name of a site option: [example id=”123″] Multiple instances of the framework If you need to have multiple instances of that js framework with different attributes, then you could create a custom … Read more
One of the contributing factors to the use of old, outdated and broken plugins are the website owners. A lot of websites get abandoned, owners are not informed enough or interested enough to spend some time researching alternative plugin, or just keep the WordPress (or any other CMS) updated and secured. So, many websites are … Read more