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
This function will return the theme directory URL so you can use it in other functions: get_bloginfo(‘template_directory’); Alternatively, this function will echo the theme directory URL to the browser: bloginfo(‘template_directory’); So an example for an image in the themes images/headers folder would be: <img src=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/665/<?php bloginfo(“template_directory’); ?>/images/headers/image.jpg” />
You may try Eazy Po. From file menu select “New from source code files..”. In xgettext Command Manager window; Press “Browse folder” to select base source folder. In Build pane press “Execute Command” button to generate Pot file.
OK so found some more: JeffreyWay / WordPress-Theme-Options-Page – open source class the project is hosted on github aimed at theme developers, looks nice, haven’t used it. (link dead) . devinsays / Options-Framework – open source Framework the project is hosted on github aimed at theme developers , i later learned that is has evolved … Read more
As of WordPress 4.5 you can use: get_post_type_archive_link( ‘post’ ); This handles the logic of getting the correct URL regardless of whether posts show up on the homepage or in a specified page.
Use wp_enqueue_script() in your theme The basic answer is to use wp_enqueue_script() in an wp_enqueue_scripts hook for front end admin_enqueue_scripts for admin. It might look something like this (which assumes you are calling from your theme’s functions.php file; note how I reference the stylesheet directory): <?php add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘mysite_enqueue’ ); function mysite_enqueue() { $ss_url = … Read more
is_front_page() returns true if the user is on the page or page of posts that is set to the front page on Settings->Reading->Your homepage displays So if you set about us as the front page then this conditional will only be true if showing the about us page. is_home() return true when on the posts … Read more