My guess is that you are using relative URLs in your header.php file. That would explain the difference in the paths. (It is probably differnt on archive pages too, right?) Don’t do that. Relative URLs do not work well in a WordPress context. Generally, you want to use get_permalink(), site_url(), home_url(), etc. to create absolute … Read more
@Martin There are a few “Coming Soon” themes available on The WordPress.org theme repository. One of them is Ready to Launch . My recommendation is to use one of the “Coming Soon” plugins instead. Why Use a Plugin? The advantage to using a plugin is that it allows you to work on the site while … Read more
My approach is to delete the default themes using ftp or your control panel file-manager once you have your site up and running. These themes will not be re-installed when you update WordPress, and will not show up in your update notifications. I usually keep the TwentySixteen theme on the system as this is the … Read more
To get a theme or plugin for which you have just the SVN URL you need three steps: Install a SVN client. For Windows you might take TortoiseSVN. Create an empty directory where you need the code. Right click in that directory and use the Checkout command to download the code. After you have clicked … Read more
Follow the instructions as listed at http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes Specifically, in your wp-content/themes folder: create another directory named Tesseract-child in Tesseract-child create a style.css file in your style.css file include the following header style.css contents: /* Theme Name: Tesseract Child Theme URI: http://example.com/ Description: Tesseract Child Child Theme Author: John Doe Author URI: http://example.com Template: Tesseract Version: … Read more
The activated theme is stored in the options table: template is the parent theme, stylesheet is the child theme. If there is no child theme the two values will be the same. The current hostname (URL without protocol or path) is available in the $_SERVER variable. You can then hook into the stylesheet and template … Read more
There are a couple of options. One: there are plugins that will let just certain logged-in users see the site in a different theme. You could use one of these and enable the new theme for yourself until you’re ready to make the switch. Two: copy your site onto a staging site and experiment there. … Read more
How to disable the gradient and font size internal CSS added by WordPress when using theme.json
My current solution is to create a directory outside the child theme that includes the CSS, JS, and php files for customizations This is a plugin, a folder containing PHP/JS/CSS, with a comment at the top of one of the PHP files that has /** Plugin Name: XYZ at the top of the file. <?php … Read more
The root problem here is assumptions. For example lets say we have an array here: $test = [ ‘foo’ => ‘bar’ ]; If we run echo $test[‘foo’]; we should see bar, but what if we ran echo $test[‘bananas’];? There is no bananas entry in that array, so PHP will notice this, throw a warning/notice similar … Read more