You need to include the wordpress config file: require $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’].’/wp-config.php’; OR use a page template if your form handler is in your theme. Take a look at using page template’s in wordpress: http://codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates
Every WordPress theme, including child themes, is required to have a style.css file. The first few lines in style.css tell WordPress the name of the theme, the description, and some other meta information about the theme. You’ll have to ask the theme developer why there are files missing in your theme.
permissions on themes directory
This is just simple. First create a page and use slug for it as custom. And then rename you php file to page-custom.php and that would be it.
You could just use a RewriteRule to your .htaccess above the regular permalink rewrite rules: RewriteRule ^ajax$ /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php [L] Now send your AJAX requests to example.com/ajax, and never miss core changes to that file after upgrades.
This is typically a file ownership problem — in a normal install, WordPress runs as the webserver user (www-data in the default Ubuntu install of apache). When you create files or copy them into your web directory, they’re owned by your normal user account. sudo chown -R www-data your-theme-directory should take care of it.
Yes, you can do this with Child Themes. A child theme is a WordPress theme that is based on another theme. The child theme points to the parent theme, and inherits styles, functions, and templates from the parent theme. However, in the child theme you can override any style rules and templates that you want … Read more
The typical definition of static page is plain text file, typed by hand or generated by software either. By definition static pages cannot have back-end powered dynamic functionality. There are quite a few approaches to integrating WP (or anything really) with static page, typical being: convert static page to dynamic completely – turn it into … Read more
This is how I did it in the end. I installed Types plugin and created a custom post type with only featured Image and title. I created one post of this type. Removed GUI to add more posts of this type. Using another plugin Admin Menu Editor I added menu Item to edit the only … Read more
When you use is_active_sidebar and dynamic_sidebar the argument needs to match the id of a registered sidebar in your theme. In your case that is going to be home_right_1 not sidebar-1 as in the code you copied. Technically, the sidebar name should also work in both and the sidebar index number should work with is_active_sidebar … Read more