If you look at Mystique theme (a great example of option panel with preview BTW) you can see that the main idea is to lavrage the form fields OnChange or change() events to load the theme’s preview with Jquery and a bit of ajax. So you have one function to load by ajax the preview … Read more
You can do this at an earlier moment by hooking into the right action, like template_redirect, which fires right before the template will be displayed. add_action( ‘template_redirect’, ‘wpse14047_template_redirect’ ); function wpse14047_template_redirect() { if ( is_author() ) { $id = get_query_var( ‘author’ ); // get_usernumposts() is deprecated since 3.0 $post_count = count_user_posts( $id ); if ( … Read more
I take it that you mean saving the pages with a new post-template to the DB? see if there’s anything in the post object that refers to the page-template, if so craft a query that updates that. Update: Taken from the wp_insert_post documentation NOTE: The page_template key was removed from the $post table and is … Read more
If it is a custom theme for your site then there would no great speed or security improvements by moving functions. On the other hand if you want to distribute the theme then I recommend having only the minimum php in the page templates files and having the rest of the functions organized in different … Read more
First of all note that get_template_part internally uses locate_template, so your feeling that the latter is slower is wrong. If you look at the code, get_template_part is little more than a wrapper for locate_template, so if one work and the other not, there are 2 possibilities: you are using get_template_part wrong there’s some hook on … Read more
You can view the template part by using get_template_part($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