How to determine if custom menu is active?
You can use the function has_nav_menu(‘main-menu’). See the WordPress Codex here.
theme-development
How to control initial wp_head() output?
Here is the current list of actions that is currently hooked by default to wp_head Reposted here to avoid unnecessary opening multiple browser windows add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘_wp_render_title_tag’, 1 ); add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, 1 ); add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘feed_links’, 2 ); add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘feed_links_extra’, 3 ); add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘rsd_link’ ); add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘wlwmanifest_link’ ); add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head’, … Read more
How to put custom post types on front page
So if you’ve registered a CPT called wpse_242473_custom_post_type you can use this to put 6 recent posts of that type onto your static front page (or anywhere). You can use a shortcode or a template tag and the function should work for both. It’s a modification of some code I use in a lot of … Read more
How Do I Programmatically Force Custom Permalinks with My Theme?
To fully enable permalinks, you also need to ensure that .htaccess is also created. To do that, you need to set an option and flush the rules with a Boolean. global $wp_rewrite; //Write the rule $wp_rewrite->set_permalink_structure(‘/%postname%/’); //Set the option update_option( “rewrite_rules”, FALSE ); //Flush the rules and tell it to write htaccess $wp_rewrite->flush_rules( true ); … Read more
Where do I start from
Glad your taking the jump into wordpress, wordpress is an amazing platform for developers and non-developers alike, if you have knowledge of PHP, HTML, CSS (and jQuery in some instances) you will enjoy working with wordpress. A great place to start understanding wordpress would of-course be the wordpress website itself. http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page I hope this helps, … Read more
Remove Customize Background and Header from Appearance admin menu without CSS or JS
As overcomplicated as it sounds, I always find the best way to handle admin menu modifications is to overlook the given wordpress remove_ functions and go straight to the $menu and $submenu globals. In the case you’ve specified here, you’d want to change your code to: add_action(‘admin_menu’, ‘remove_unnecessary_wordpress_menus’, 999); function remove_unnecessary_wordpress_menus(){ global $submenu; unset($submenu[‘themes.php’][20]); unset($submenu[‘themes.php’][22]); … Read more
How to export/import theme customizer settings?
For anyone still interested in customizer export/import functionality, we just released a new plugin on the wordpress.org repo that does exactly that! https://wordpress.org/plugins/customizer-export-import/ Don’t hesitate to let us know what you think!
Is it good to rename theme folder downloaded from WordPress.org?
The TLDR No, it is not, for various reasons, but fundamentally it’s a security via obfuscation, a misleading/bad concept Breaking it Down Question by Question I have downloaded a theme from WordPress theme directory (abc) and i renamed it to (xyz). Great, .org plugins have a review process and get taken down or adjusted if … Read more
Can I create customizer setting that can handle plugin shortcode?
It’s probably best to render the shortcode on output by running it through do_shortcode()
How to make a theme with more than one CSS file?
This article should answer your question: Add a style switcher to your wordpress theme The article that I have linked above explains and walks you through on how to add a stylesheet switcher to your admin panel for your theme. It walks you through on how to use and add options to your theme. This … Read more