I found Ian Stewart‘s Theme Development tutorial a wonderful one to start from the scratch with a very little knowledge on WordPress. How To Create a WordPress Theme: The Ultimate WordPress Theme Tutorial Hope the explanation there could help you a lot to understand which code block’s for what. So you can modify yours as … Read more
The title attribute is hard-coded in comments_popup_link() unfortunately: echo ‘ title=”‘ . esc_attr( sprintf( __(‘Comment on %s’), $title ) ) . ‘”>’; What you can do is catching the generated HTML in a variable and replacing the attribute with an empty string: ob_start(); comments_popup_link(); print preg_replace( ‘~ title=”[^”]+”~’, ”, ob_get_clean() );
If you take a look at the Codex page for get_template_part(), you fill find the following usage: Load a template part into a template (other than header, sidebar, footer). Makes it easy for a theme to reuse sections of code and an easy way for child themes to replace sections of their parent theme. Includes … Read more
Yes it is. But no by default. But it’s pretty easy to do it yourself. You can do it in 2 ways: 1. In single.php template file Just add if statement and use get_template_part function to load selected template. So your single.php file could look like this: <?php if ( isset($_GET[‘template’]) ) { switch ($_GET[‘template’]) … Read more
All options with autoload = yes (default) are fetched very early in one query. So the number of options does affect performance only marginally. Split options if you don’t need everything on every page load. With … add_option( ‘option_name’, ‘option_value’, ”, ‘no’ ); … you can set options that aren’t loaded before you actually call … Read more
The “magic hybrid of jQuery and php” is called “AJAX”, at least in this case. You will need to use the Javascript to conditionally make another request to the server. The PHP runs on the server and so has no idea how tall the page is. The Javascript runs in the browser and can work … Read more
You may already know this, but the <b> or <strong> tags are better choices if all you want to achieve is bold text. <h1> should be reserved for the most important header(s) on your page. By default, WordPress strips out a lot of what’s in excerpts, including images and HTML tags. To undo this, you’ll … Read more
load_template() is for cases where you need the following global variables in an included file: $posts, $post, $wp_did_header, $wp_query, $wp_rewrite, $wpdb, $wp_version, $wp, $id, $comment, $user_ID If you don’t need those, or if you use global in those files anyway, it isn’t needed. locate_template() and get_template_part() are for cases when you want to allow child … Read more
Translate the title before you send it to the_tags(): the_tags( ‘<div class=”tags”>’ . __( ‘Post Tags’, ‘textdomain’ ), ‘ ‘, ‘</div>’ );
I would just filter previous_post_link and next_post_link. This way, your template stays clean, and you move the extra logic to the functions.php. Example, not tested: add_filter( ‘previous_post_link’, ‘filter_single_post_pagination’, 10, 4 ); add_filter( ‘next_post_link’, ‘filter_single_post_pagination’, 10, 4 ); function filter_single_post_pagination( $output, $format, $link, $post ) { $title = get_the_title( $post ); $url = get_permalink( $post->ID ); … Read more