It all has to do with readability, specifically the width of a line of text. Research shows that text can be read faster when a line contains 95 characters per line versus other common line lengths. Couple this with designers’ love of small type until the last year or so, and you’re stuck with a … Read more
First, yes, you need to learn PHP. You can pretty much don’t bother with rest of answer until you have PHP basics (at least) down. Now let’s talk about WordPress and Bootstrap relationships. WordPress provides template tags. These are PHP functions that are meant to be used in template files. There is a lot of … Read more
Sounds like there are two parts to your query: 1) Stop the first post from showing the full content, and 2) show the featured image on all the posts. 1) At the moment, the first post is using a different template to the other posts. To make the posts consistent, change this in index.php: get_template_part( … Read more
You can’t override the function(s). They aren’t meant to be overwritten. See: “Override parent theme function that is not hooked or in the functions.php file” and “Is it possible to disable a function of a parent theme?”. That is the direct answer to your question. You can, however, almost certainly achieve the result you want … Read more
There are a few steps you need to take to add menus, the wordpress way. Register the menu in functions.php using register_nav_menus() Codex Link: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_nav_menus Example: register_nav_menus( array( ‘my_custom_menu’ => ‘My Custom menu’, ‘my_other_menu’ => ‘My Other Menu’, ) ); Now you can create new menus on the back-end Login and go to Appearance -> … Read more
The style_loader_src filter is used to modify/filter the src (url) of a stylesheet. The function callback accepts two parameters, the first is the original src and the second the handler of the stylesheet. The handler is the first parameter of wp_enqueue_style() used to enqueue the stylesheet. So, to replace a stylsheet source with another one … Read more
I would not try to get too tricky and hide pages from users. What happens if they try to create a page with the same slug? I think it would just create confusion and more problems than it would solve. When you create the pages, store their IDs, not slug. Let users then change those … Read more
get_sidebar(‘left’); actually refers to a file, not the sidebar itself. Are you seeing the sidebar in the Admin section? Are you trying to display it on the front end? If the answer to both of these questions are “yes”, then here’s the solution: Create a file called sidebar-left.php. In this file, you will need to … Read more
I decided to work with the creator of the theme, and the problem has been fixed! I did the following: Remove all code from the child theme’s function.php, leaving it empty. Replaced the child theme’s style.css with a copy of the parent theme’s style.css, and replaced the commented bit with the child theme’s commented bit. … Read more
style.css may contain only comment with Theme Name: … . It just tells to WordPress about your theme. You have no need to load style.css in theme through tag <link … >. So. Now you can leave your only one css file main.css with all styles in <head>.