Directly accessing the filesystem for writing is evil… for most of the cases where people are actually doing that. If you’re editing an image file, and it is in the wp-content/uploads directory, then you know, whatever. That’s not the common case. Plugins and themes don’t typically do that because they don’t have to do that. … 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.
If you want to display comments and the comment form on posts but not on pages, you need to split up the logic in your template file to call comments_template() depending on the type of the item displayed (post or page). There are two ways to do this: either you keep one template file for … Read more
1) You can use the template search.php and searchform.php as your starting points. Creating a Search Page Codex 2) As far as the custom query goes, you can use pre_get_posts hook to test if you’re on a search page, then you get $_GET your values, edit your query accordingly. Action Reference – pre_get_posts There are … Read more
I’ve developed a 55k product ecommerce site using WordPress with the Shopp plugin and can share what I’ve done to MySQL to eke out better performance, YMMV and some (or all) of these may not apply to your situation. Determine how much you need to increase buffers/caches by by looking at the output from a … Read more
This is indeed an error, and probably caused by the child_of argument. Because child_of requests the whole subtree of the given page (not only the direct children, but also children of those children and so on), WordPress first queries for all the pages and then selects a subset of those pages. The first query respects … Read more
I’ve personally had limited success with the backup/restore plug-ins that are commonly available. Many times, the best backup plug-ins don’t allow for a direct restoration from a backup file. So I do things manually. It’s a bit more difficult, but far more reliable, too. Backing up with phpMyAdmin Log in to your host’s control panel … Read more
I’m not 100% clear on what your question is, but hopefully this will cover it: There’s a lot of documentation of how to use AJAX in WP. I would start here: https://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX In the function that you write to hook your AJAX call into, make a call to the DB to see if the user-entered … Read more
Maybe you are after something like WP PHP Console. Another good plugin would be the Simple Error Handler, while it should be regarded it is compatible only up to 3.8.11 and you may consider forking it to be compatible to latest version of WordPress.
There’s no set best practice, as each model fits different work processes. One Repository If you’re only managing a single site with a single set of plugins/themes then a single repository makes sense. Or if you’re managing multiple sites that use the same set of plugins/themes. Multiple Repositories This is my personal preference. Keep WordPress … Read more