please make yourself comfortable with the settings WordPress has to offer regarding your Homepage or Startpage as some call it. Those are not configured via that permalink setting of a specific page (as your image shows) but with options on the Settings Reading SubPanel (WordPress Codex). Probably Creating a Static Front Page (WordPress Codex) is … Read more
About OOP Themes) There are dozens of Theme- & Plugin-“Frameworks” out there. And some are OOP. About custom coding) You could also try libraries like WP Alchemy for meta boxes and custom content. “Rilwis” offers another one. Then you could use some front end code to insert stuff into Custom Post types. About “Jobroller”) You … Read more
You should never use <link> tags for stylesheets. Always use the proper API functions: Better practice Example: function wpse57423_register_stylesheets() { wp_enqueue_style( “themes_main_stylesheet’ get_stylesheet_directory_uri().”/style.css” array() // Use this array if you’ve deps that need to load before your stylesheet filemtime( get_stylesheet_directory().”/style.css” ) ); } function wpse57423_enqueue_stylesheets() { wp_enqueue_style( ‘themes_main_stylesheet’ ); } // Add to public page … Read more
I’ve created a rewrite do redirect like: /mylisting/909 ->/wp-content/themes/myplugin/edit.php?id=909 Which seems to make sense as I’m keeping the very specific logic to an individual plugin. There is a better way: Create an endpoint, use your code in a callback handler for the new URL. You get the whole theme environment for free here: get_header(), sidebars, … Read more
Yes, get_template_part will always look in the theme. It uses locate_template which is hard-coded to use STYLESHEETPATH and TEMPLATETPATH I don’t know exactly what you mean about using a “partial template”, but if you mean “can I include part of a PHP file?” then no. It is all or nothing. You need to break your … Read more
Don’t save the template in the current theme. Instead, save the template in your plugin itself and try to use the template using template_include filter for particular page or whatever using is_page. By this you don’t have to worry about theme change.
/wp-content/themes/twenty-twelve/style.css will have a lot of the visual elements of the theme in it to get inspiration, however you must realise that each of the elements coded into the css is designed to go with each one of the div or other elements designed in wordpress… Back coding it will almost be harder than writing … Read more
Yes it is. It might get a bit clearer if you re-format this line $title .= ” $sep ” . sprintf( __( ‘Page %s’, ‘_s’ ), max( $paged, $page ) ); to: $title .= ” $sep “; $title .= sprintf( __( ‘Page %s’, ‘_s’ ), max( $paged, $page ) ); The first parameter of sprintf … Read more
You can use sprintf: echo sprintf( __(‘Follow %s on Facebook’, ‘yanse’), get_bloginfo(‘name’) );
Your best bet is setting up your own WordPress plugin server and deploying your theme to that — then install the plugin that interacts with that server on all of your sites and hey, presto! You’ve got yourself a custom theme which updates through the native interface! And you save yourself a whole lotta trouble … Read more