Some time ago, I started a site that served as my professional portfolio. It was running on WordPress, so when I decided to add a blog it was really easy to just flip a switch and start writing. As time went on, though, I realized that the blog and the portfolio served totally different purposes … Read more
See Add multiple plugin directories for one way to do this. In an earlier project I did something similar, but I used a dedicated theme options page for my theme plugins. Looking back … I wouldn’t do that again. Plugin updates are a too complicated, separated version control setups too. The client wasn’t always sure … Read more
You can register additional directory or directories with themes by using register_theme_directory() function, that accepts filesystem path to folder. Note that this isn’t typical and even while core handles it mostly fine, third party code in themes and plugins might not.
I actually found a solution myself by following the way a reusable block is registered in this stackexchange thread: Reusable blocks are all stored in/as core/block and this block has the attribute ref which carries the post id of that block. So, you can use array( ‘core/block’, array( ‘ref’ => [your block ID], ) ), … Read more
This tutorial is pretty awesome for explaining the basics, and you end up with a nicely styled options panel at the end of it too. There are a few such tutorials around, it’s surprisingly easy to get the hang of. I’ve never tried it but you should be able to add a bit of PHP … Read more
@Scott B, I just read a post on Justin Tadlocks Blog regarding this same issue. The Solution Use the default_content filter hook and it to the themes function.php file. Example: <?php add_filter( ‘default_content’, ‘my_editor_content’ ); function my_editor_content( $content ) { $content = “This is some custom content I’m adding to the post editor because I … Read more
There is currently no way to create admin themes like Drupal. Here are some tips which cover most of the basic admin panel customization needs: http://www.cmurrayconsulting.com/wordpress-tips/customizing-wordpress-admin/
Thats not really an ideal way to do it (and will bring all kinds of problems), what your real aim is, is to make wordpress into a CMS this way you can manage it as website from the wp-admin panel, add new pages etc, etc, the link i have added is just to give you … Read more
I wouldn’t recommend to use update_option for this task. Why? Because themes/plugins may use switch_theme action and it won’t get run in such case. And this action is pretty important – it will allow you to save your widgets for example… Another problem with Fuxias answer is that she uses template_directory hook. But there is … Read more
There are two ways of going about licensing WordPress theme, You can License under GNU GPL or you can make your own license. Most of the big brand WordPress Theme Creators like WPMU Dev license under GNU GPL and then make you pay for the download. You could also do it where the download is … Read more