The first you do: separate regular comments and pingbacks. In your comments.php set the type parameter for both: <ol class=”commentlist”> <?php // show regular comments wp_list_comments( array ( ‘type’ => ‘comment’, ‘style’ => ‘ul’ ) ); ?></ol> <ol class=”pinglist”> <?php // show pingbacks and trackbacks, short: “pings” wp_list_comments( array ( ‘type’ => ‘pings’, ‘style’ => … Read more
Your consistent/common areas are: Header (Including nav) Footer Sidebar So you can easily make them accordingly to: header.php – get_header(); footer.php – get_footer(); sidebar.php – get_sidebar(); And the right content area, as it is inconsistent, so it can be separated into a different page as: content.php (general template) content-double.php (template 1) content-page.php (template 2) etc. … Read more
When you load a php file directly via an ajax request (UncheckPackageThemeHelper.php) it’s loaded outside the context of WordPress, so no WordPress core functions are available. All WordPress ajax requests should be routed through admin-ajax.php. You can print the URL with the function admin_url: admin_url( ‘admin-ajax.php’ ) When admin-ajax.php is loaded, WordPress is bootstrapped, so … Read more
Replacing templates via child theme only works as far as WP’s core functions are being used to locate/load that template. More complex themes might not be implementing that for their features. In such case the code of the parent theme needs to be examined to determine how precisely that specific template is loaded and what … Read more
An alternative solution that takes inspiration from both answers by @Milo and @toscho. create your own function to load template, e.g. if ( ! function_exists(‘my_locate_template’) ) { function my_locate_template( $template=””, $load = false, $once = true ) { $filtered = apply_filters(‘allow_child_load_’ . $template, true); if ( ! is_child_theme() || $filtered ) return locate_template($template, $load, $once); … Read more
WP checks for updates by sending data about all plugins and themes to the repository. To prevent false update messages for your own code you need to selectively scrub it out of those requests. The example for theme by Mark Jaquith: function cws_hidden_theme_12345( $r, $url ) { if ( 0 !== strpos( $url, ‘http://api.wordpress.org/themes/update-check’ ) … Read more
That “extra stuff” is for the Admin Bar. If it’s messing up your layout, then you should correct the layout so that it doesn’t mess it up.
Here’s an example that “abuses” the tag description field to store a template name for the tag. We use the tag_template filter to get the tag description if it exists and include a template file with the description as part of the name. You could extend this to whitelist specific template names so typos don’t … Read more
It is required, actually. There’s no real difference between themes and plugins as such. Neither of them should take actions on merely being loaded, they should use action hooks on functions to have things happen in the correct ordering.
There are a few errors which I want to address First of all, you should never use query_posts to construct custom queries. This is not just my emphasis, but the codex as well. The one big problem with query_posts is, it many circumstances, pagination fails Note: This function isn’t meant to be used by plugins … Read more