As @Ashfame as already pointed out, you shouldn’t store defaults in the database – that should be for user selected options (of course, if they select the defaults, then fine – store them :). However, you don’t need to use wp_parse_args() either. get_option allows you to select a default value. For instance: //If nuod_logo is … Read more
Because “Standard” is not a format itself – it simply implies that the post has no formats. …which is somewhat deceptive, given it’s listed in the Format meta-box as a format to choose I think “standard” quite clearly implies what it means. If you’re creating a site in which a post is never “standard”, then … Read more
Drop this in a plugin & activate. I should note this doesn’t take into account things like child themes – it’s purely for toggling which theme renders based on SOME_FLAG. add_filter( ‘stylesheet’, ‘switch_ma_theme’ ); add_filter( ‘template’, ‘switch_ma_theme’ ); function switch_ma_theme() { // Return the theme directory name return SOME_FLAG ? ‘theme-1’ : ‘theme-2’; }
If you prefer simple template files, you can do that with custom comment callbacks too. Call wp_list_comments() with a custom callback handler: wp_list_comments( array( ‘callback’ => ‘custom_comment_callback’, ‘style’ => ‘ol’ ) ); Now make that callback function very simple: function custom_comment_callback( $comment, $args, $depth ) { include ‘comment-template.php’; } And now you can use comment-template.php … Read more
You can do this by using pre_get_posts() which will adjust the query before it’s run. Therefore we can exclude pages from the query. function wpse_hide_special_pages($query) { // Make sure we’re in the admin and it’s the main query if ( !is_admin() && !is_main_query() ) { return; } // Set the ID of your user so … Read more
Registering custom posts is a plugin territory. It means that you need to remove them from the theme’s functionality and register them via a plugin (usually recommended when installing the theme using TGM Plugin Activation or something else). Here are the recommendations of the Theme Review Team. Themes must not incorporate the following, Plugin-territory functionality. … Read more
I work with several large WordPress sites, news sites specifically, that have thousands of posts and thousands of visitors (300k/day). With the stuff below, and a well coded theme, with well written queries, we’re loading in 2.5s with 7 ad blocks from AdSense and RevContent. Do you have a CDN? I highly recommend a CDN … Read more
Disabling the sitemap is easy, just add this line to your functions.php: add_filter( ‘wp_sitemaps_enabled’, ‘__return_false’ ); Removing specific posts goes like this: add_filter( ‘wp_sitemaps_posts_query_args’, function( $args, $post_type ) { if ( ‘post’ !== $post_type ) { return $args; } $args[‘post__not_in’] = isset( $args[‘post__not_in’] ) ? $args[‘post__not_in’] : array(); $args[‘post__not_in’][] = 123; // 123 is the … Read more
WordPress’ new menu system is both wondrous and infinitely frustrating, depending on what you are trying to do and what day of the week it happens to be. 🙂 It’s a great idea but far from mature so while it’s a feature I applaud I’ll be happier when v3.3 or v3.4 of WordPress rolls out … Read more
You could use a function inside your theme’s functions file to selectively disable it for specific users. function disable_bar_for_user( $ids ) { if( !is_user_logged_in() ) return; global $current_user; if( is_numeric( $ids ) ) $ids = (array) $ids; if( !in_array( $current_user->data->ID, $ids ) ) return; add_filter( ‘show_admin_bar’, ‘__return_false’, 9 ); } Then call it for the … Read more