It was indeed an encoding issue. Opening with Notepad++ (I’ve managed to open it from a PC), I’ve realized that the file was encoded as UCS-2 something (I don’t remember exactly if Big or Little Endian). I have no idea why this happened and how to avoid that in the future, as I’ve simply created … Read more
You can use the plugin Debug Objects, this have a option to get outside the templates, folder, file etc. and much more. Makes easier to debug a installed site.
Custom fields are not intended as grouping mechanism, they are suited for data that can have wildly different values that are not group like. For example product weight would be a good candidate since it can wildly vary and typically there is no interest in grouping like “show me all products that weight 200g”. For … Read more
Question #1: I don’t really understand this question, but what you have done looks alright. I might add the pre_get_posts filter in the same place as register the post type– presumably a plugin file– but registering in the theme should work. It won’t transfer to another theme if you do that though. Question #2: You … Read more
Pages cannot be explicitly “added” to the customizer – to view other theme templates, create pages first then click through the site links in the customizer view.
I think WordPress is one of the cases where the original code just got bigger and bigger without having a chance to be rewritten from ground up with best practices. In this case, I think the WordPress conventional practice (writing markup in function) outweigh the best practices. You might find the theme development documentation interesting … Read more
Filter template_include and use your own templates: add_filter( ‘template_include’, function() { return $path_to_template; }); The $path_to_template should point to file that renders your templates.
As you describe the timing would not quite work. During WP core load: main query is created and processed into query variables (with pre_get_posts being one of the hooks able to influence the results) then template-loader.php uses conditionals (dependent on those query variables) to determine template to use So at the point of pre_get_posts you … Read more
I’m afraid you have to do this manually. You can put someting like this in your single-vehicles.php file: if ( … ) { // check if it’s in used category/term get_template_part(‘part-single-vehicles-used’); } else { get_template_part(‘part-single-vehicles-new’); } And then put new car template into part-single-vehicles-new.php file and used car template into part-single-vehicles-used.php.
In TwentyTwelve index.php: <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> <?php get_template_part( ‘content’, get_post_format() ); ?> <?php endwhile; ?> the line in the middle is loading the content.php to show the posts on the homepage. a. In content.php, the_post_thumbnail() in line 18 is responsible for the image, specifically the Featured Image, of a post. … Read more