It’s not exactly what I wanted but it’s very close. As per the codex for wp_nav_menu()… $depth (integer) (optional) How many levels of the hierarchy are to be included where 0 means all. -1 displays links at any depth and arranges them in a single, flat list. Default: 0 So I did this… wp_nav_menu( array( … Read more
Those are classes required by a particular microformat. I personally find it annoying that they are built into the Core, meaning that if you don’t want to support that microformat you have to take steps to remove it or have incomplete meta-data in the markup. However, if you do wish to support that microformat, the … Read more
It looks like you are trying to model this on theme options code. You can’t do that. That is backend code. As written, this question is very broad– I am tempted to vote to close as “too broad”– but I will offer bare bones code to get you started: echo ‘<form method=”post”>’; wp_dropdown_categories(); echo ‘<input … Read more
A WordPress Multi-site can handle multiple languages with individual themes and plugins activ. It’s like having multiple sites, one for every language, within one Installation. Every Site can have it’s own design, set of activ plugins and users. Read troth Method No. 5 on this Page for Details and Plugins that can help: http://codex.wordpress.org/Multilingual_WordPress
I would do something similar to this: return ‘<div class=”slideshow”>’.do_shortcode( ‘.'”]’ ).'</div>’; In other words, wrap around the existing short code instead of ending up with a frankenstein version of it. You can then use the slideshow div to select against using jquery and whichever javascript gallery you want to use. How you would do … Read more
That tutorial is no longer valid as Twitter’s API have changed June 2013. There are are some great tutorials that came out just after June 2013 for Twitter API v1.1. Why not use a plugin. It is actually better to go that root as these plugin developers keep their plugins up to date and are … Read more
The first line is just an HTML comment outside the scope of PHP. It’ll output with every response and creates all the kinds of headaches you’re experiencing. Solution? Remove it, or make it a PHP comment: <?php /* In a child theme, all of the functions of the parent theme are present, unless overridden here … Read more
As per comments: this is what the Customizer API is for. In the case of the header there are a dozen parameters to tweak the behaviour with. Like this: $defaults = array( ‘default-image’ => ”, ‘width’ => 0, ‘height’ => 0, ‘flex-height’ => false, ‘flex-width’ => false, ‘uploads’ => true, ‘random-default’ => false, ‘header-text’ => … Read more
The hooks you are looking for can be found in the WordPress Codex WP_Query – Filters: Filters posts_distinct – Alters SQL ‘DISTINCTROW’ clause to the query that returns the post array. posts_groupby – Alters SQL ‘GROUP BY’ clause of the query that returns the post array. posts_join – Alters SQL ‘JOIN’ clause of the query … Read more
Check out the WordPress Codex reference page for the_excerpt() as it is a built-in way of doing what you’re looking to accomplish: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt EDIT: it also has an example for shortening the excerpt beyond the default length.