A transient is not like a wp_cron job in that they don’t update themselves when a set time has elapsed. A transient will update when an attempt is made to access the data. If you actually do need an approximately hourly update you will need to use wp_cron, though in practice it may not matter … Read more
wp_add_inline_style() is intended to add additional CSS to an existing stylesheet. The idea is that you may need to dynamically alter the stylesheet – for instance, you have user-selected colours associated with categories and you would like to colour each category’s title accordingly. You can’t hardcode this since the colours in question are not known, … Read more
Add Section to Theme Customizer: $wp_customize->add_section( ‘parsmizban_options’, array( ‘title’ => __( ‘Theme Options’, ‘parsmizban’ ), //Visible title of section ‘priority’ => 20, //Determines what order this appears in ‘capability’ => ‘edit_theme_options’, //Capability needed to tweak ‘description’ => __(‘Allows you to customize settings for Theme.’, ‘parsmizban’), //Descriptive tooltip ) ); Add new Setting: $wp_customize->add_setting( ‘bootstrap_theme_name’, //No … Read more
You can filter template_include and pass your custom template as return value depending on your own conditions. Sample code, not tested: add_filter( ‘template_include’, function( $template ) { // your custom post types $my_types = array( ‘photography’, ‘painting’ ); $post_type = get_post_type(); if ( ! in_array( $post_type, $my_types ) ) return $template; return get_stylesheet_directory() . ‘/single-photography.php’; … Read more
The sweet and short is to not break your head over naming conventions or consistency in WordPress, as these are non existant “standards”. To be really honest, WordPress does not follow any fixed set of rules or standards, even though there is a handbook on coding standard available for WordPress developers. Yes, it would have … Read more
I needed this requirement a while back. There’s a selection of plugins available, but nothing took my fancy. They were (in my opinion) either too bloated, poorly written, or the UI was either lacking or overly complex. Then I stumbled upon Term Menu Order. Essentially it adds a menu_order field to the terms database, and … Read more
dynamic_sidebar() calls wp_get_sidebars_widgets() to get all widgets per sidebar. I think filtering this output is the best way to remove a widget from an sidebar. add_filter( ‘sidebars_widgets’, ‘wpse17681_sidebars_widgets’ ); function wpse17681_sidebars_widgets( $sidebars_widgets ) { if ( is_page() /* Or whatever */ ) { foreach ( $sidebars_widgets as $sidebar_id => &$widgets ) { if ( ‘my_sidebar’ … Read more
A few things to consider: Enqueue stylesheets properly, using wp_enqueue_style(), and hooked into either wp_enqueue_scripts or wp_print_styles Enqueue scripts properly, using wp_enqueue_script(), and hooked into `wp_enqueue_scripts() Ensure that enqueued stylesheets and scripts are only enqueued on the front end, and not in the admin back end. Bootstrap and similar frameworks should only be used on … Read more
The most definitive and up to date answer about best practice can come probably only from the wordpress.org theme review team, and right now they are different from the codex. just quoting it here, but I’m sure it might change with time Themes are required to support the following WordPress-defined CSS classes, or similar elements: … Read more
You could do something like : $related_posts_query = new WP_Query( $related_posts_args ); if( $related_posts_query->found_posts < 10 ){ $args = array(/* new wp_query args*/); $newquery = new WP_Query( $args ); } # merge the two results $related_posts_query->posts = array_merge( $related_posts_query->posts, $newquery->posts ); $related_posts_query->post_count = count( $related_posts_query->posts ); # do your loop here