It is a matter of opinion and coding style. This kind of coding style is very popular in wordpress plugin and theme development therefor I will not fault anyone for doing it but I agree that the practice of having classes that have only static method or used as a singleton in the context of … Read more
switch_theme() is the function you need but this… why is someone changing the stylesheet and no longer changing the theme? … indicates a misunderstanding. You provide the $stylesheet as an argument but you are switching the theme as a whole not just the stylesheet. And, for reasons unknown, $stylesheet isn’t the stylesheet. It is: $stylesheet … Read more
Don’t ever use relative paths in wordpress. use require(ABSPATH .’your path relative to wordpress root’). There are also other useful constants and API for that but selecting one will depend on where exactly do yo want your common code to be. At the minimum it will make it easier to understand from the error message … Read more
The easiest way would be to do away with the content.php file for this template and move everything to your single-thumbnail-featured.php so you don’t mess up any other pages using content.php. Then I would simply move the_post_thumbnail() outside the col-md-8 into a full width col-md-12. single-thumbnail-featured.php //Loads the header in which there is a container … Read more
Currently your form looks like: <form id=”search-query”> <p class=”in-english”><a href=”http://localhost/hermodswp/?page_id=76″>Information in English</a></p> <div class=”search-box”> <div> <label class=”screen-reader-text” for=”s”></label> <input type=”text” value=”sdf” name=”s” id=”s” style=”width: 293px;”> <input type=”submit” id=”searchsubmit” value=”Sök”> </div> </div> </form> Try adjusting your submit action to point to your home_url(). action=”<?php echo home_url(); ?>” You can edit the page in Chrome to see … Read more
The differences does not seem to be big enough to make it worth 3 different templates. You can probably just use the body_class filter to add a class based on the meta and adjust the CSS to hide or show the sidebar at a specific location based on the class.
git is probably by far the fastest and easiest way to update anything assuming you use git for development. The alternative you hinted to in the question is to use the wordpress update API, but for this you will need to set up an update server. There is some code for that here https://github.com/YahnisElsts/wp-update-server. It … Read more
First step in modifying a theme, is creating a child theme. Now that you have a theme that is basically the same as the original, you can simply copy files of the original theme that you want to modify into exactly the same relative location as in the original theme and modify them to whatever … Read more
.first-container { position: relative; } div.headline-container { position: absolute; /*Changed from relative to absolute.*/ bottom: 0; color: #ffffff; /*Keep other style rules you have*/ }
The content that, as you correctly stated, is generated automatically, is generated by wordpress using template files in your theme. Wordpress will use one of these files, following a convention called template hyerarchy (so, for example, wordpress will use single.php to display a single post page, or archive.php to display an archive page). To promote … Read more