Try to keep the business logic out of the theme. Dealing with images is always an edge case, because they do affect presentation, which is usually a theme job. But the logic of how to get and order these images, the JavaScript parts and the backend are probably better in a separate code base. That … Read more
The sweet and short of it all is, never try to translate HTML tags. Use placeholders and either printf or sprintf to translate strings with HTML tags Something like this will do printf() printf( __( ‘This %s text %s have an %s HTML %s tag. Another sentence…’ ), ‘<em>’, ‘</em>’, ‘<b>’, ‘</b>’ ); sprintf() sprintf( … Read more
wrap whatever you are outputting the shortcode in around do_shortcode()
If you plan to release them independently, then release them independently and try to get them both hosted in the WP repository. This will allow you to update the systems remotely and keep people using the most up-to-date system possible. Then, in your theme, use is_plugin_active() to filter your commands. If you have a theme … Read more
I have a handy little custom made conditional function that would do the job for you. The function: function is_child_page($page = NULL){ global $post; if ($page == NULL){ $p = get_post($post->ID); if ($p->post_parent > 0 ){ return true; }else{ return false; } } $args = array( ‘child_of’ => (int)$page); $pages = get_pages($args); foreach ($pages as … Read more
You are using plugins_url – therefore pointing to completly different directory than your current theme. If you are just trying to enqueue a theme style do it like this: function load_theme_styles() { wp_enqueue_style(‘main-css’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’, array(), ‘1.0’, ‘all’); } add_action(‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘load_theme_styles’); the wp_enqueue_style takes some parameters. In the example above I am using: A … Read more
For anyone that comes here looking for this, I was able to do it after battling with it for a few hours. The code is a bit extensive so did not want to post here, (mods feel free to let me now if that would be better), instead I created a gist: https://gist.github.com/OriginalEXE/9a6183e09f4cae2f30b006232bb154af What it … Read more
wp_reset_query() will reset the query to the original query WordPress did on this page. So if you somewhere called query_posts(), it will not reset back to that query, but to the “main” query. You probably want to use wp_reset_postdata(), which resets the $post variable to the current post in $wp_query. The best thing is to … Read more
RE: Excluding plugins from update checks Yes you can exclude plugins from the update checker, there’s no pretty solution, ie. no convenient filter to just say, here exclude these for me, but it can be done, Mark Jaquith did a blog on it a while back(and it is a relatively easy solution). /** * FOR … Read more
Update: 12/19/15 : Here’s a plugin on Github that I developed (using the method in answer I provided below) adding support for changing all widget to bootstrap components/styling. Original Answer I understand not wanting to use javascript, but it seems like overkill in my opinion to completely create a new widget just for the list-group … Read more