UPDATE: This is now a decade old answer, meant for a very old version of WordPress. I can see the comments informing me that this might not work for newer WP versions, please do refer to the other answers below if mine is not working for your version of WP. For WP 2.*, this will … Read more
A) The Base in Core As you can see in the Codex Template Hierarchy explanation, single-{$post_type}.php is already supported. B) Extending the core Hierarchy Now there’re gladly some filters and hooks inside /wp-includes/template-loader.php. do_action(‘template_redirect’); apply_filters( ‘template_include’, $template ) AND: a specific filter inside get_query_template( $type, … ) named: “$type}_template” B.1) How it works Inside the … Read more
When a page is created, the assigned template to that page is saved as custom post meta in the same way as custom fields. The meta_key is _wp_page_template and the meta_value will be the page template You can simply make use of get_pages to retrieve all pages which have a meta_value of the specified template … Read more
That’s pretty simple. You just have to take the textarea out of the default fields – filter ‘comment_form_defaults’ – and print it on the action ‘comment_form_top’: <?php # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- /** * Plugin Name: T5 Comment Textarea On Top * Description: Makes the textarea the first field of the comment form. * Version: … Read more
Just in WordPress 4.9 there’s this bug: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/42573 causing the template files to only be rescanned once every hour. To fix (until they release a new WP version with this changed), download the patch on that bug ticket and make the changes from the patch to wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php. Hope this saves someone the 2 hours I … Read more
Hi @Silent: Turns out there is a function in WordPress 3.1 that does exactly what you want and it is named get_post_type_archive_link(); here’s how you’d call it (assuming a custom post type named ‘product’): <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/11531/<?php echo get_post_type_archive_link(“product’); ?>”>Products</a> Below is my prior answer before I discovered that WordPress did indeed have a function built-in … Read more
In fact you can, I have a folder in my theme directory called /partials/ in in that folder I have files such as latest-articles.php, latest-news.php and latest-statements.php and I load these files using get_template_part() like: get_template_part(‘partials/latest’, ‘news’); get_template_part(‘partials/latest’, ‘articles’); get_template_part(‘partials/latest’, ‘statements’); Just dont forget to omit the .php from the file name.
This will display the title of the page when a static page is set to show posts. E.g. I show posts on my homepage… It’ll do nothing. If I, say, show posts on page titled News… It’ll show News in H1. This is used so that the title of the page is shown, whenever posts … Read more
As far as I know, WordPress has nothing built in for this, I would just do: filesize( get_attached_file( $attachment->ID ) );
Bare bone themes are great, personally I prefer them over frameworks. I have noticed that ‘liking’ one over another comes down to how it feels, so I would suggest trying several out until you find one. For instance a lot people like WordPress boilerplate but I could not get the hang of it. My current … Read more