force_balance_tags() is not a really safe function. It doesn’t use an HTML parser but a bunch of potentially expensive regular expressions. You should use it only if you control the length of the excerpt too. Otherwise you could run into memory issues or some obscure bugs. The other problem is: the function uses two hard-coded … Read more
A transient is not like a wp_cron job in that they don’t update themselves when a set time has elapsed. A transient will update when an attempt is made to access the data. If you actually do need an approximately hourly update you will need to use wp_cron, though in practice it may not matter … Read more
Add Section to Theme Customizer: $wp_customize->add_section( ‘parsmizban_options’, array( ‘title’ => __( ‘Theme Options’, ‘parsmizban’ ), //Visible title of section ‘priority’ => 20, //Determines what order this appears in ‘capability’ => ‘edit_theme_options’, //Capability needed to tweak ‘description’ => __(‘Allows you to customize settings for Theme.’, ‘parsmizban’), //Descriptive tooltip ) ); Add new Setting: $wp_customize->add_setting( ‘bootstrap_theme_name’, //No … Read more
Just a suggestion and not necessarily the answer, but some of those are so basic I’m wondering if using the Starkers theme from Elliot Jay Stocks and just adding a bit of style to it, could make the simple theme you’ve been looking for.
You are most likely to save the url of the image and not the whole image tag, and there is a great tutorial that explains just how to use the media uploader in your own theme or plugin: http://www.webmaster-source.com/2010/01/08/using-the-wordpress-uploader-in-your-plugin-or-theme/ update In case of using this in a meta box you will need the post id … Read more
The most definitive and up to date answer about best practice can come probably only from the wordpress.org theme review team, and right now they are different from the codex. just quoting it here, but I’m sure it might change with time Themes are required to support the following WordPress-defined CSS classes, or similar elements: … Read more
Storing widgets is complex topic. Basically it is such a multi-level-array-mess on the inside that very few people try to make sense of it (and even fewer succeed). 🙂 As far as I understand it myself while we can manipulate cute sidebar names on the surface, deep inside it is getting deconstructed to numerical IDs. … Read more
Updated plugin version available at GitHub. I first saw your Question at [wp-hackers] list, and, after implementing the solution, was about to publish a Q&A for that. Well, it’s already here, and has a bounty put on it 🙂 As Daniel Bachhuber points out in the thread: WordPress.com puts themes inside of subdirectories /wp-content/themes/public /wp-content/themes/premium … Read more
You can get the slug in the options table, stored under the name stylesheet. echo get_option(‘stylesheet’);
Update The following workaround is necessary for users who are using WordPress older than version 4.4. If you are using WordPress v4.4+ then you don’t need to go for such an extensive work-around. Simply follow the Usman Siddiqui’s answer, and it’s that easy. Actual Answer You can add a favicon into your WordPress site in … Read more