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Changing the visible url path to css & js files

Offhand I think you’d need two things: First, a rewrite rule in your .htaccess file like so: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^css/(.*) /wp-content/themes/theme-name/css/$1 [L] RewriteRule ^js/(.*) /wp-content/themes/theme-name/js/$1 [L] Second, add a filter to your theme’s functions.php like so: function change_css_js_url($content) { $current_path=”/wp-content/themes/theme-name/”; $new_path=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”; // No need to add /css or /js here since you’re … Read more

Twenty Eleven home page show only excerpt

The template you’re actually after is “content.php” You’ll want to change this line: <?php if ( is_search() ) : // Only display Excerpts for Search ?> <div class=”entry-summary”> <?php the_excerpt(); ?> </div><!– .entry-summary –> <?php else : ?> <div class=”entry-content”> <?php the_content( __( ‘Continue reading <span class=”meta-nav”>→</span>’, ‘twentyeleven’ ) ); ?> <?php wp_link_pages( array( ‘before’ … Read more

When coding a WordPress theme, where does the theme (i.e. the presentation) end and the plugin (i.e. the functionality) begin?

I would say that one line would be presention versus creation of content. It is one thing to have a slider that displays certain posts; it is another entirely to have a new post type for the slider. A slider can be set to display content based on existing taxonomies, or existing post meta (such … Read more

When to use esc_url, esc_html, esc_attr, and friends?

Those function are used to produce a valid HTML and not to sanitize input. You should use them anytime you are not 100% sure that what you want to output is a valid HTML for that context. Should you escape everything? I guess the _s theme people decided that it is better to be safe … Read more

Automatically install wordpress plugin at theme activation

Edited Answer: TMG is a very popular auto plugin installer for WordPress and a lot of Premium theme author use it. You can get the php class here https://github.com/thomasgriffin/TGM-Plugin-Activation. Also when you will download it you will get a php file named example.php. You just have to include that example.php file in your function.php file … Read more

redirect does not work in ajax function

The AJAX request runs in the background. Redirects here do not affect the main page. And 302 is not an error, it is just a status code. Your AJAX response should return either the URL and the status code to the calling page or just a number like 1. Then you handle the redirect in … Read more

Display admin notice only on main dashboard page

You can try the following: function my_admin_notice() { ?> <div class=”updated”> <p><?php _e( ‘some message’, ‘my-text-domain’ ); ?></p> </div> <?php } add_action( ‘load-index.php’, function(){ add_action( ‘admin_notices’, ‘my_admin_notice’ ); } ); where we use the load-index.php hook to target the dashboard page.

get_option function

You are using get_option() wrong, first variant, so take another look at the get_option() documentation. Basically you can’t directly access an array element with the function, it just doesn’t support it. The second variant should be possible, but you need at least PHP 5.4 – if I’m not totally mistaken; I don’t know anything about … Read more

Google Maps not displaying in wordpress using Google Maps Javascript API

I was able to get this working after a bit of fiddling. Give the #map-canvas element a height (you can do this in CSS): <div id=”map-canvas” style=”height:500px”></div> Add the callback argument to the google-maps script URL and add the defer and async attributes to the google-maps script tag. Also make custom-scripts a dependency for google-maps: … Read more

How does WordPress decide what template to use as frontpage

Front page template logic is horrendous legacy mess. While back I wrote a very thorough front page cheatsheet, I still can’t completely remember how it works. You are right to notice that theme in your case doesn’t behave in same way as other themes typically do. If you run down specific template being used (plugin … Read more

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