I pretty much started in the same place as you a while back, and have created something similar. Here’s what I think you need to know. 1) Work out how to create your basic hello world first and foremost. A simple plugin will consist of a few comments at the top of a PHP file … Read more
As the OP found out, m is a reserved parameter name that should be use only by core (indicates month). Solution is to use some other parameter name (always use your own prefixes in all global contexts!).
As always, people copy paste whatever they learned from and IIRC the first style is the coding style of wordpress core. As you said yourself, when there is a big block of generated HTML it is easier to look at (and balance tags) under the first style, but pragmatic people will use the second whenever … Read more
This should work: add_filter( ‘media_view_strings’, ‘cor_media_view_strings’ ); /** * Removes the media ‘From URL’ string. * * @see wp-includes|media.php */ function cor_media_view_strings( $strings ) { unset( $strings[‘insertFromUrlTitle’] ); return $strings; }
There is nothing stopping you from writing your own unit testing for themes/plugins using PHPUnit or some other testing platform. As for WordPress, it has an official Unit Tests here: http://unit-tests.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/ https://github.com/kurtpayne/wordpress-unit-tests (github mirror) There are several build scripts that can automate unit testing found here, including WP-CLI that have built in unit testing, though … Read more
/** * Get custom header’s alt data. * * @link http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/q/151850/1685 * * @return string */ function wpse_151850_get_header_image_alt() { $attachment_id = 0; if ( is_random_header_image() && $header_url = get_header_image() ) { // For a random header, we have to search for a match against all headers. foreach ( get_uploaded_header_images() as $header ) { if ( … Read more
You can get the backtrace by trapping the E_NOTICE message. If you add the following snippet to wp-config.php just before /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */ you should see the full backtrace in the error log. set_error_handler(function() { error_log(print_r(debug_backtrace(), true)); return true; }, E_USER_NOTICE); define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, true ); define( ‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, true ); define( … Read more
TL;DR If you want to support Composer, adding a composer.json is better then just let WPackagist create a package for you. There are several reasons, no one is really important, but considering that to create a composer.json does not require much effort, it probably worth it. composer.json Benefits Below a non-exhaustive list of benefits of … Read more
There are a few different reasons. 1. Separation of Concerns Fundamentally, your logical code (i.e. your plugin or your theme) should not need to know anything about the database. At all. Really. The $wpdb object is the global database access layer, and you should be using it for all of your database access. If you … Read more
$WP_array = array ( ‘user_login’ => $username, ‘user_email’ => $email, ‘user_pass’ => $password, ‘user_url’ => $website, ‘first_name’ => $first_name, ‘last_name’ => $last_name, ‘nickname’ => $nickname, ‘description’ => $bio, ) ; $id = wp_insert_user( $WP_array ) ; wp_update_user( array (‘ID’ => $id, ‘role’ => ‘editor’) ) ; Since you are looking for working solutions, this one … Read more