You just need to add the styles directly to the page head. The best way to do this is to use the ‘wp_head’ action hook, assuming you are using a theme that has the hook. Like so: add_action(‘wp_head’, ‘my_custom_styles’, 100); function my_custom_styles() { echo “<style>*{color: red}</style>”; } Check out the WP codex to learn more … Read more
There are many themes and plugins using jQuery as loaded by WP core. Every time jQuery is updated, there is a risk of older themes and plugins breaking (because lots of them are still used but no longer updated). That’s why you also see jquery-migrate.js in your source code. It’s a script that catches old … Read more
Like most others, I highly recommend using WPTouch. However, it’s built more to support blogs than other website formats, so I know it’s not the panacea of mobile solutions (I run my portfolio on WordPress as well as my blog, and my portfolio looks like **** in WPTouch). So I did take a look at … Read more
In addition to the other two suggestions, there is another possible approach: move all of your custom-app functionality out of the Theme, and into a hosted web service, to which the Theme connects via API key. That way, redistribution of the Theme itself does not impact your custom app-based business model, because the app would … Read more
Usually, you don’t need it. But … there is at least one edge case: If a theme file is a template part, and it is using global variables from the calling context (parent file), and register_globals is on, and it is just using these variables without any security check … … an attacker can call … Read more
This is only used in template-loader.php, to determine whether it should load a theme file or not. The normal “boot sequence” of WordPress (started in wp-blog-header.php) loads the plugins, parses the URL, executes a post query based on the URL, and calls the theme. This main post query is typically used in “The Loop”. So … Read more
I could be wrong, but I vaguely remember that: name, email get hijacked by WordPress to do post comments, if you renamed the form elements to be contact-name and contact-email, do you get the same issue?
For the record, I mainly make whole Web sites and plugins, and deploy them. My workflow is very Ruby- and git-heavy. To start out on a new project, I have a shell script which takes care of the whole business of setting up a new vhost and checking out the latest tag of WordPress (from … Read more
In backend there is global ajaxurl variable defined by WordPress itself. This variable is not created by WP in frontend. It means that if you want to use AJAX calls in frontend, then you have to define such variable by yourself. Good way to do this is to use wp_localize_script. Let’s assume your AJAX calls … Read more
I think you have to be a little careful because it depends on what you are trying to do. If you are using a child theme get_template_directory(); will still go to the parent theme. However get_stylesheet_directory(); will go to the current theme, child or parent. Also, both these functions return absolute server paths. If you … Read more