If it is a custom theme for your site then there would no great speed or security improvements by moving functions. On the other hand if you want to distribute the theme then I recommend having only the minimum php in the page templates files and having the rest of the functions organized in different … Read more
First of all note that get_template_part internally uses locate_template, so your feeling that the latter is slower is wrong. If you look at the code, get_template_part is little more than a wrapper for locate_template, so if one work and the other not, there are 2 possibilities: you are using get_template_part wrong there’s some hook on … Read more
You can view the template part by using get_template_part($slug) It’s one of those hidden gems inside of WordPress that don’t get the attention they deserve. The get_template_part function is essentially a PHP include or require, on steroids: It already knows where your theme is located and it will look for the requested file in that … Read more
You can approach this by first using a database query to count the number of pages that are already using the template: $query = “SELECT COUNT(*) as total FROM prefix_posts as p JOIN prefix_postmeta as m ON p.ID = m.post_id WHERE p.’post_type’ = ‘page’ AND p.’post_status’ = ‘publish’ AND m.’meta_key’ = ‘_wp_page_template’ AND m.’meta_value’ = … Read more
When you register your post type, set the has_archive argument to false. If you change it, don’t forget to flush your rewrite rules to see the change. Now this works fine if, as you asked, you want to show the page and not the archive. What about the situation where you’d like to show the … Read more
If you take a look at template-tags.php file, then you’ll see something like that: if ( ! function_exists( ‘twentyseventeen_posted_on’ ) ) : /** * Prints HTML with meta information for the current post-date/time and author. */ function twentyseventeen_posted_on() { // Get the author name; wrap it in a link. $byline = sprintf( /* translators: %s: … Read more
From the looks of it your adding php right in the css which will not work. You need to write to the css file itself or dump it right into the html as Jeremy said as I am writing this:) Writing a new CSS file every time you make any changes can tax your system, … Read more
Sounds like it could be an issue with the database and serialization of the plugin options. I’ve had problems before with plugin settings etc when moving a site using the xml export. The category templates plugin writes a lot of options to the db and they could be corrupted. As a test try creating a … Read more
I would stay stick to the function. PHP caches functions for speed and efficiency. In some situations, using a function is faster then using a variable. There are other benefits too – imagine if you changed the name of your variable – you would have to go and update every piece of code where it’s … Read more
Unfortunately all of your code is wrong. What you are doing is the same as query_posts, which should never be used. Also, never swap the main query on any type of archive page or on the home page for a custom query To create a tag page, just simply make a copy of your index.php, … Read more