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Preset Widgets ONLY after site is initially created

Why not output your Theme’s custom Widgets using the_widget(), inside of a if ( ! dynamic_sidebar( ‘sidebar-name’ ) ) conditional? e.g. <?php if ( !dynamic_sidebar( ‘sidebar-right’ ) ) { $widgetsidebarrightargs = array( ‘before_widget’ => ‘<div class=”widget”>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</div>’, ‘before_title’ => ‘<div class=”title widgettitle”>’, ‘after_title’ => ‘</div>’ ); the_widget(‘WP_Widget_Calendar’ , ‘title=” , $widgetsidebarrightargs ); the_widget( … Read more

Using theme options to change a border-radius value

Use standard echo or printf with additional parameters. e.g. if(isset($option[‘borderradius’]) && (!empty($option[‘borderradius’]))) { $borderradius=”.post { “; $borderradius .= ‘border-radius: ‘ . $option[‘borderradius’] . ‘px; ‘; $borderradius .= ‘-webkit-border-radius: ‘ . $option[‘borderradius’] . ‘px; ‘; $borderradius .= ‘-moz-border-radius: ‘ . $option[‘borderradius’] . ‘px; ‘; $borderradius .= ‘}’; echo $borderradius; } if(isset($option[‘borderradius’]) && (!empty($option[‘borderradius’]))) { printf(‘.post { … Read more

How to add an upload image button (just like the one in the Custom Header) in the Theme Options I just created?

Referring to this post How to use media upload on theme option page? Check if you find anything helpful. Thanks!

Why my theme option not working?

A little tricky to say by looking at code alone. The first thing you need to check in such cases – if your validation function receives data from submitted form. var_dump() input and die; right after that to stop execution and prevent redirect back. Depending on what you get there (if anything) check back through … Read more

Unable to save Theme Options when TinyMCE is enabled for the text area

What output do you get on-submit, if you add the following to the top of your sanitization callback: var_dump( $input ); die; i.e. add it here: function theme_options_validate( $input ) { var_dump( $input ); die; Compare the results with and without TinyMCE. Let’s figure out what’s changing. Also: this isn’t directly related to the issue … Read more

Splitting an eCommerce store from the WordPress Theme

Core site functionality really shouldn’t be so tightly coupled to the theme. This is why the plugin system exists. If it’s not too late I would recommend exploring alternatives. That said, anything happening on the admin side is in the theme’s functions.php file, or is included via that file. As long as that file and … Read more

Weird undefined index: id,std notices. How to fix it?

First: Write false === get_option( ‘whatever’ ); – see Coding Standards. Second: Why do you have a variable-variable in there? $$value[‘id’] = $value[‘std’];.

WordPress built-in Custom Background

You have to include the theme_support in your functions.php Simply add this to your functions.php add_custom_background();

WordPress karma theme shortcodes not working

In the theme folder there is probably a folder called cache where timthumb stores the images it creates. Make sure this is writable, as otherwise timthumb can’t put it’s images anywhere and simply fails to load anything.

List of categories instead of dropdown menu selector in admin options

In that case you can get the list of categories and for each category create a text field something like this: $categories = get_categories(‘hide_empty=0&orderby=name’); foreach ($categories as $cat){ $options[] = array( “name” => $cat->name, “desc” => “Select a color for “.$cat->name.” category”, “id” => $shortname.”_cat_”.$cat->term_id, “type” => “text”, “std” => “”); }

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