EDIT On second thought: no, both Themes couldn’t use the same database. If they did, they would have to have exactly the same settings, including active Theme, activated Plugins, and settings – which includes home_url(). There may be other ways to go about it, but this isn’t one. ORIGINAL ANSWER If I’m following your question … Read more
It’s been a while since I’ve asked this, and I’ve built several themes in that timeframe. The answer I’ve come up with is “use the filter”. There is no limitation to doing this, and it makes other developers’ jobs much easier, as they only need to filter the output (vs. trying to do output buffering). … Read more
Try this basic template layout <?php get_header(); # gets header.php contents if (have_posts()): # checks if there are any post available for this url while(have_posts()): # starts loop the_post(); # assigns $posts global the_title(); # outputs post title the_content(); # outputs post content endwhile; # ends loop endif; # ends conditional check get_footer(); # gets … Read more
Option values are longtext. So you can store up to 4,294,967,295 or 4GB (232 – 1) bytes in an option value. I wouldn’t do that … but feel free to test the edge cases. 🙂
The most common problem are JavaScript conflicts, you can debug this by making sure you are using no conflict wrappers. Another thing you can adjust is the load order, sometimes there are errors when one script is loader before/after another. If you are relying on many 3rd party scripts it can be difficult, you might … Read more
I think this should work if you are wrapping the condition around the arguments, and not the menu link itself: if(!is_user_logged_in()) { $args = array( ‘exclude’ => ‘100,110,145’ ); } else { $args = array( ‘exclude’ => ‘100,145’ ); } wp_list_pages( $args );
If you are the only one who needs to see the actual theme and make modifications on it, then take a look at Theme Test Drive plugin which allows you to Work with one theme on your blog as administrator, while visitors still use and see the default one.
This has to do with .htaccess rather than wordpress itself. You could just add a row to your htaccess files. RewriteRule ^(.+)/theme-(.+)$ $1?themedemo=theme-$2%{query_string} $1 is argument one, the first appearance of (.+) and is the page name $2 is the second argument, the second appearnce of (.+) as in the theme name so if you … Read more
There are numerous ways you can setup a staging area for a site redesign. Here are three suggestions: If the content will remain the same and you’re just going to change the theme, you can use a plugin that changes the theme based on the user and set yourself (and your client when appropriate) to … Read more
WordPress can only use one Theme at a time. You cannot (and, really, should not) change Themes on-the-fly. (There are edge cases; search the Plugin repository for Theme Switcher Plugins for implementation examples.) That said, that doesn’t mean that a single Theme can’t output different styles based on the current context; and, really, that’s what … Read more