How to Display Custom Post Type’s Gallery (images ) in Through WP_Query
How to Display Custom Post Type’s Gallery (images ) in Through WP_Query
theme-development
Resources for a complete beginner to learn to work professionally with WordPress [closed]
One of the sites I have used and sometimes still reference if i forget … is http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/ This tutorial is a little old but is great for a beginner to get their feet wet as it takes you step by step on how to build a theme and how to test locally before you upload. … Read more
how to get title to custom tags page
To expand your conditional to check for display of one of your terms, you can do this: if ( is_page() ) { the_title(); } elseif ( is_tag() ) { single_tag_title(); } elseif ( is_tax( ‘mtags’ ); ) { single_term_title(‘More Tags: ‘); } However, if you use your theme’s custom taxonomy template for this taxonomy, taxonomy-mtags.php, … Read more
Should I use RIPS tool to test my themes and plugins?
Yes, and yes, RIPS is an excellent tool to do both. You can use it to check the quality of your WordPress themes and plugins or any other WordPress theme and plugin. RIPS is a static code analysis tool to automatically detect vulnerabilities in PHP applications. By tokenizing and parsing all source code files RIPS … Read more
Should we localize custom-made themes / plugins?
If you know that you or the client will NEVER need to be translated there is no need to replace all the strings within your theme with gettext. Regarding the performance issue I found a benchmark comparing the 3 gettex methods. It also compared using the default local vs a different local and the differences … Read more
How to pass code from header.php to footer.php
Avoid global variables, they could be overwritten by other code. You could use a helper function with a static internal variable instead. Sample code: function wpse_69365_var_storage( $var = NULL ) { static $internal; if ( NULL !== $var ) { $internal = $var; } return $internal; } // first call: wpse_69365_var_storage( 4 ); // later … Read more
Custom nav menu is created with default pages, but not hooked to theme’s custom menu location
wp_create_nav_menu() function accepts the menu name and not the menu location. and as for wp_update_menu_item() well its for items and not the menu itself. After digging in the code i found out that “assignment” of ‘theme location’ to a menu is not done using of the nav_menu API in WordPress but with theme options so: … Read more
Pagination & get_pages?
I think you can use query_posts() function instead of get_pages(), and use a pagination plugin like wp-pagenavi. The query_posts() will set variables for pagination as well without any afforts.
Using AJAX to return search form results
There are two issues in your code You need to add script in wp_enqueue_scripts hooks like this – add_action(‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘my_custom_js_script’); function my_custom_js_script() { wp_register_script( ‘ajax-productSearch’, get_template_directory_uri() .’/js/ajax-product-search.js’, array( ‘jquery’) ); wp_enqueue_script( ‘ajax-productSearch’ ); wp_localize_script( ‘ajax-productSearch’,’the_ajax_productSearch’, array(‘ajaxurl_productSearch’ => admin_url(‘admin-ajax.php’))); } The second issue is that, you need to add action argument in your jQuery.ajax data. If … Read more
Am I using get_posts wrong?
get_posts() returns an array, not a WP_Query object. If you want to use have_posts() and related functions, use a “raw” WP_Query object.