I just put a piece of code from author.php file of TwentyTwelve theme: <?php /* Queue the first post, that way we know * what author we’re dealing with (if that is the case). * * We reset this later so we can run the loop * properly with a call to rewind_posts(). */ the_post(); … Read more
Thats entirely up to to you. I generally create a theme thumbnail from the PSD file, or, when the theme changes a lot between designing and developing, I tend to create one from a screenshot. Look at the Themes Directory, you can see some of the developers actually don’t use a screenshot but some other … Read more
You can remove all the translation references if you don’t plan on translating it. You can also leave it in place, it shouldn’t hurt anything.. If you want to remove it, go through your theme files and find references to __(‘ Your Text’, ‘Domain’) and just change it to the “Your Text” portion. (Sometimes, you … Read more
The codex on the Template Hierarchy: WordPress first determines whether it has a static front page. If a static front page has been set, then WordPress loads that page according to the page template hierarchy. If a static front page has not been set, then WordPress looks for a template file called home.php and uses … Read more
Generally since WordPress’ biggest selling point is it’s content management, what clients want the most are sites they can edit without any code in the way or any chances that they might break something – so putting html in the text editor beyond unordered/ordered lists is bad practice and defeats the point of making content … Read more
The query object contains the member var post_count which will give you the number of posts on the current page: $wp_query->post_count; Also, for the total number of posts for the query (across all pages): $wp_query->found_posts; and the number of pages in the query: $wp_query->max_num_pages;
You can just update the option field avatar_default to your new image url: add_filter( ‘avatar_defaults’, ‘mytheme_default_avatar’ ); function mytheme_default_avatar( $avatar_defaults ) { $avatar = get_option(‘avatar_default’); $new_avatar_url = get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/images/default_avatar.png’; if( $avatar != $new_avatar_url ) { update_option( ‘avatar_default’, $new_avatar_url ); } $avatar_defaults[ $new_avatar_url ] = ‘Default Avatar’; return $avatar_defaults; }
It sounds like your theme does not use wp_footer() the way it should. That function should occur right before the closing </body> tag. The admin bar runs on a hook fired by that function. Without it, I get exactly what you describe. For reference, in Twenty Thirteen, it looks like this: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-content/themes/twentythirteen/footer.php
You can use the Theme-Check plugin. The theme check plugin is an easy way to test your theme and make sure it’s up to spec with the latest theme review standards. With it, you can run all the same automated testing tools on your theme that WordPress.org uses for theme submissions. The tests are run … Read more
You’re not calling wp_nav_menu() correctly. You need to pass it an args array, and declare the theme_location key. I’m assuming that, since you’re passing a string rather than an array, wp_nav_menu() doesn’t recognize the parameter, and is falling back to its default output: the menu matching the ID, slug, or name given by the menu … Read more