You can just call PHP functions directly. In this case however we possibly don’t want to call the_permalink() since it echoes out the link: function the_permalink( $post = 0 ) { /* … */ echo esc_url( apply_filters( ‘the_permalink’, get_permalink( $post ), $post ) ); } whereas we want to return the link in a string. … Read more
1) Yes you can 2) No, but spend a lot of time reading up on wordpress codex (thats more or less your bible) and of course refernce through this site too, full of valuable information. 3) Everything is very easily added to wordpress via plugins, no need to go on steep learning curves 4) WordPress … Read more
Yes! I’ve used WordPress to create many large sites, that are by no means blogs. Sometimes the structure that WordPress uses, with the custom posts + taxonomies, etc., actually makes things much easier than many PHP frameworks. There seems to be a big discussion in the PHP community as to whether WordPress should be used … Read more
Theme licensing information is typically included in style.css. According to that Voidy theme is at least partially under GPL license (version not specified): The CSS, XHTML and design is released under GPL There is no issue with removing front-end credits/link from GPL-licensed theme.
Is your theme compatible with the new version of WP? May be that it uses a deprecated function name somewhere. But I’ve had updates go wrong previously. The only thing that eventually sorted it out was to re-upload all the files of the new version using FTP, and overwriting what was there. Won’t have impact … Read more
This is what WordPress.com says: Because of the way WordPress.com’s technical infrastructure is designed, we are not able to support uploading of custom WordPress themes on our service. You are only allowed to pick from pre-existing themes.
You can upload your themes directly to the wordpress.org theme directory, after going through their checklist/review process. Here’s some more info to get you started: http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/upload/
Instead of <?php if(!is_home() || !is_front_page()) :?> you could use <?php else: ?> This style will not affect the wp-admin part, only the front end of your web since this is used in header.php. A safe way is to use wp_register_style() and wp_enqueue_style() as described here in the Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_style http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_register_style In your case it … Read more
You can do that accessing the phpmyadmin dashboard of your host, but that is no the right way to do it, i recommend you to research and learn about: Custom Post Types Custom Taxonomies
The way I do it is create multiple layout files, add the option to choose which one to use on the template options panel: layout-left.php layout-right.php layout-both.php Then on the index page you setup if layout X is chosen, load X layout. This is an example using the option tree plugin theme options: <?php get_header(); … Read more