What does the content of theme name/include/widget.php ? The error is pointing to line 1 and telling you it did not expect to see ?> there. My guess (without seeing the file) is you have closed a php tag instead of opened it.
It depends on where you distribute the theme. If you want to place it on WordPress.org, it must allow and display widgets. If you release it via your own website, or some others possibly, widgets can be optional, though I would always recommend they be supported.
I would like to recommend you to learn Admin Color Schemes plugin which provides 8 new color schemes. You need to install Grunt.js and SASS compiler. More information you can find during investigation the plugin stuff. Use it as a copy to create your own plugin.
I will suggest not to replace the data directly in the sql file. This is because wordpress stores data in terms of serialized manner. The reason for simply replacing data in serialized form leading to problems is that serialized data saves string length with it, so if you replace strings the length most likely will … Read more
Looks like TwentyFourteen includes the ie.css stylesheet within a ‘less than IE 9‘ conditional tag, which would explain why it’s not working for IE11. <!–[if lt IE 9]> <link rel=”stylesheet” id=’twentyfourteen-ie-css’ href=”http://localhost/wordpress_answers/wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/css/ie.css” type=”text/css” media=”all” /> <![endif]–> Sounds like you’ll want to enqueue your own IE specific stylesheet. This is probably done cleanest from within a … Read more
There needs to be a way to turn this off, because this was terribly slow for me too. I did find this plugin will disable it: Disable Google Fonts
You can use WP_Theme::get_screenshot() method, which returns the screenshot url. For example: $themes = wp_get_themes(); foreach( $themes as $theme ){ echo ‘<img src=”‘.esc_url($theme->get_screenshot()).'” />’; }
You can use Query Monitor plugin for that Not quite sure if it distinguish between both but it’s a great plugin for query monitoring and debugging.
To start off, a theme does not require a functions.php file to operate. For example, a one page site can simply just have an index.php and a style.css file. Your functions.php file holds functions, filters and action hooks to add theme specific functionality to your site. This extends core functions, add complete new functionality or … Read more
Yes, you can but you will get errors about the header already being sent unless you hook into init or admin_init (or elsewhere prior to the headers being sent). I haven’t tested it, but you may be able to hook your session function into the send_headers action1 which seems like the most appropriate place since … Read more