theme-development

How to Use WordPress Color Picker API in Custom Post Type Metabox

I’ve created a metabox once with color picker. You need to include color picker style and script in your admin_enqueue_scripts hook, and then initialize it with $(‘.color-picker’).wpColorPicker(); From my gist: <?php add_action( ‘admin_enqueue_scripts’, ‘mytheme_backend_scripts’); if ( ! function_exists( ‘mytheme_backend_scripts’ ) ){ function mytheme_backend_scripts($hook) { wp_enqueue_media(); wp_enqueue_style( ‘wp-color-picker’); wp_enqueue_script( ‘wp-color-picker’); } } add_action( ‘add_meta_boxes’, ‘mytheme_add_meta_box’ ); … Read more

Escaping built-in WP function return strings

Escaping is used to produce valid HTML or other formats, and it depends on context. Escaping a url in something like <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/215822/<?php echo $url?>”…. is needed in order to replace any “&” characters with & (although browsers will most likely fix it for you if you don’t do it). Escaping a url in an … Read more

How to get the registered sidebar’s name by its id?

Sidebars are stored in global variable $wp_registered_sidebars. You can get the sidebar properties using this variable. global $wp_registered_sidebars; if ( isset( $wp_registered_sidebars[‘sidebar-2’] ) ) { echo $wp_registered_sidebars[‘sidebar-2’][‘name’]; } Note that do not use it too early, either on/after widgets_init hook or in a template file.

How to access certain WP functions inside custom class, in theme folder

You’re actually calling the add_meta_box() function before it’s defined, when you run this directly: \ci\wp\Metaboxes::addMetabox( ‘front_page_slide_settings’, ‘Slide settings’, ‘page’, ‘normal’, ‘high’ ); You don’t mention where you run it, but it’s too early or you run it in the front-end, where add_meta_box() is not defined. The add_meta_box() function is defined within this file: /** WordPress … Read more

Function to activate WordPress theme inside a plugin

Of course there’s a function for that (Codex): switch_theme( $stylesheet ) It: Switches current theme to new template and stylesheet names. Accepts one argument: $stylesheet of the theme. ($stylesheet is the name of your folder slug. It’s the same value that you’d use for a child theme, something like twentythirteen.) It also accepts an additional function signature … Read more

The seventh parameter passed to add_submenu_page()

I was able to track this down to the culprit function add_theme_page(). There There was an additional parameter, per the codex for add_theme_page() that needed to be removed. Removing that seemed to help. function fivehundred_register_admin_menu() { add_theme_page( ‘500 Settings’, ‘500 Settings’, ‘manage_options’, ‘theme-settings’, ‘fivehundred_admin_menu’, plugins_url( ‘/ignitiondeck/images/ignitiondeck-menu.png’ ) ); } add_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘fivehundred_register_admin_menu’ ); Fixed code … Read more

Update Multiple Post Meta for the Same Post In One call?

EDIT: Original answer was inaccurate as you can do this with wp_update_post and the meta_input field As per the updated question and comments this is possible with wp_update_post (or wp_insert_post for a new record) using the meta_input key on the array, e.g.: $metaValues = array( ‘key1’ => ‘value1’, ‘key2’ => ‘value2’, // … as many … Read more

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