Based on my research, you would need to run a query on directly on the database using WPDB. So you would do something like this: Add this in your functions.php file: // retrieves the attachment ID from the file URL function get_image_id($image_url) { global $wpdb; $the_attachment = $wpdb->get_col($wpdb->prepare(“SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE guid=’%s’;”, $image_url )); … Read more
I couldn’t define an “accurate” method to implement the form I desired, so I have settled on the admin_notices action as a viable solution. The Result Illustrations View when in Theme Editor of the associated theme. The default style.css is selected, but is not editable. An error message is shown if Update File button is … Read more
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As @Buttered_Toast and @Sébastien Serre mentioned I first need to save file to a local directory before unzipping. So here is my final code: $source=”http://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/ona-creative.1.0.0.zip”; $file = get_theme_root() . “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/” . $slug . ‘.zip’; file_put_contents( $file, file_get_contents( $source )); $unzipfile = unzip_file( $file, get_theme_root() );
Yes, this can be done in WordPress. Check out http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/allow-users-to-submit-images-your-site/ for some code examples. You will have to modify the logic to suit your needs of course, but the above link should get you pointed in the right direction.
To cache something you can use the Transients API (thanks @Otto), get_transient() to see if it exists already exists, if not then fetch the data and store it in a transient with set_transient(). if (get_transient(‘mytheme_webfonts’)) { $content = get_transient(‘mytheme_webfonts’); } else{ $googleApi = ‘https://www.googleapis.com/webfonts/v1/webfonts?sort=alpha&key={API_KEY}’; $fontContent = wp_remote_get( $googleApi, array(‘sslverify’ => false) ); $content = json_decode($fontContent[‘body’]); … Read more
Is there a way to use WP filesystem without credentials when FS_METHOD is NOT set to direct? Short answer: No.