The get_term() function accepts a term id and a taxonomy slug. It returns an object that contains a “count” for that term. $obj_term = get_term(123, ‘your-taxonomy-slug’); echo $term->count; I’m not aware of any utility function that just counts posts in a particular category.
Hi welcome to the world of WordPress. 🙂 My answer is a bit indirect… I think before you even start thinking about creating a theme, you should really understand how to create content in WordPress through writing blog posts, pages, how to edit the navigation bar, how to activate themes/plugins, and how to use the … Read more
RECOMMENDED: No reference to the_post_thumbnail() was found in the theme. It is recommended that the theme implement this functionality instead of using custom fields for thumbnails. This is because you are not using the_post_thumbnail() in your theme, you are trying to get an image from the post content. This means there is no way for … Read more
You can add a timestamp to your post meta each time a product is viewed, then query the five most recently viewed products. Assuming you are using a custom post type named ‘product’, add the following inside the loop of your single-product.php template file: <?php if (get_post_type( $post->ID ) == ‘product’ ) update_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘_last_viewed’, … Read more
I would stay stick to the function. PHP caches functions for speed and efficiency. In some situations, using a function is faster then using a variable. There are other benefits too – imagine if you changed the name of your variable – you would have to go and update every piece of code where it’s … Read more
You can use this function: function get_first_paragraph(){ global $post; $str = wpautop( get_the_content() ); $str = substr( $str, 0, strpos( $str, ‘</p>’ ) + 4 ); $str = strip_tags($str, ‘<a><strong><em>’); return ‘<p>’ . $str . ‘</p>’; } and then call it in your loop with: <?php echo get_first_paragraph(); ?> The magic part your looking for … Read more
Put this pretty much anywhere (ie. functions.php) add_theme_support( ‘menus’ );
Comment.php The way I see your comment.php seems messy and more complex than it needs to be, you can post this piece of code to in your comment.php and it should work okay. <?php /** * If the current post is protected by a password and * the visitor has not yet entered the password … Read more
To do it properly, you need to generate a valid .mo file and load the text domain in your theme functions.php: function wpse222346_localize_theme() { load_theme_textdomain( ‘your_theme_domain’, get_template_directory() . ‘/languages’ ); } add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘wpse222346_localize_theme’ ); You can check the WordPress Codex for more info on the load_theme_textdomain function: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/load_theme_textdomain Then you would call the translatable … Read more
You’re in luck. I was actually looking for an excuse to do this on one of my projects. I finally took the time to add this idea into one of my themes. 🙂 You can take this idea and run with it. It’s very basic and bare-bones example, but it does what you want it … Read more