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Does wordpress templates always in files or in database?

But there is no content directory in template directory. Actually, with the following: get_template_part( ‘templates/content’, ‘header-private’ ); get_template_part( ‘templates/content’, ‘header-public’ ); WordPress will search in the templates folder for content-header-private.php or content-header-public.php, and if found, it is loaded. Else, WordPress will attempt to load the content.php file instead. So WordPress (or get_template_part()) will not search … Read more

Footer.php not showing?

From the Codex (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_footer) If the theme contains no footer.php file then the footer from the default theme wp-includes/theme-compat/footer.php will be included. Chances are that something is wrong with your footer.php, and there’s nothing to render – ie it’s being called, but it’s not doing what’s expected. . Can you paste your footer.php?

What’s the purpose of $wp_did_header?

It’s a global variable that can be checked by user functions and filters to see whether or not WordPress has already sent headers. It’s just there to help.

Show a different code on front page to other pages

You can use the wordpress template hierarchy to do just that. Specifically, you can put the code you want in front-page.php and then use index.php for the rest of them, though that’s a rather bland way of doing design with what you have on your hands. Alternately, there are the wordpress conditional tags which can … Read more

How does WordPress choose archive type template?

WordPress uses a Template Hierarchy to determine which template file to load based on the current context: This diagram is a visual representation of \wp-includes\template-loader.php, that contains the context-based template-selection logic. As to your specific questions: For example, suppose I have two posts by the same author. How do I make WP use the author.php … Read more

How to use get_template part in the plugin?

Yes, get_template_part will always look in the theme. It uses locate_template which is hard-coded to use STYLESHEETPATH and TEMPLATETPATH I don’t know exactly what you mean about using a “partial template”, but if you mean “can I include part of a PHP file?” then no. It is all or nothing. You need to break your … Read more

how to show only specific category for a template

You can do that by using category parameter in the wp_query change the line which looks like this $blog_query = new WP_Query( array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘paged’ => $paged ) ); to $blog_query = new WP_Query( array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘paged’ => $paged, ‘cat’ => 4 ) ); // Here ‘4’ is the id of … Read more

Is there any hook for theme activation ? or something similar?

Don’t save the template in the current theme. Instead, save the template in your plugin itself and try to use the template using template_include filter for particular page or whatever using is_page. By this you don’t have to worry about theme change.

Understanding the Template hierarchy

You need to look how page templates are saved against a page in the wp_postmeta table. Each page is linked to the specific template it uses and this is saved under the meta key _wp_page_template. You can go and have a look at your own install how you db structure looks like and how page … Read more

Is the “_s” on this `sprintf(__(‘Page %s’, ‘_s’), max($paged, $page))` just refer to a text domain?

Yes it is. It might get a bit clearer if you re-format this line $title .= ” $sep ” . sprintf( __( ‘Page %s’, ‘_s’ ), max( $paged, $page ) ); to: $title .= ” $sep “; $title .= sprintf( __( ‘Page %s’, ‘_s’ ), max( $paged, $page ) ); The first parameter of sprintf … Read more

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