How to create a backend for a custom theme?
You can create using page builders as well as using widgets or you can use custom post types and create page templates for different pages of your custom WordPress theme website.
plugin-development
How to connect my wordpress plugin to a remote database securely?
I’d recommend setting up an API, and also ensuring the sites are HTTPS (have an SSL certificate) to encrypt communication between the servers. If you don’t have one already, there are free certifiers such as https://letsencrypt.org/
Translate MCE button text/tooltip in custom plugin
Create js file button.js and add js directory and list-btn.png needed (function() { tinymce.create(“tinymce.plugins.listbuttons_button_plugin”, { //url argument holds the absolute url of our plugin directory init : function(ed, url) { //add new button ed.addButton(“listbuttons”, { title : “Add Related post shortcode”, cmd : “listbuttons_command”, image : “images/list-btn.png” }); ed.addCommand(“listbuttons_command”, function() { var return_text = “[related]”; … Read more
CSS not affecting widget output
The problem was due to an incorrect file path in the movieposterdisplay-scripts file. Whilst the file loaded correctly in the main php file require_once(plugin_dir_path(__FILE__).’/includes/movieposterdisplay- class.php’); as it already assigned the correct plugin folder name. It did not enqueue correctly as the code was wp_enqueue_style(‘mpd-main-style’, plugins_url().’/movieposterdisplay/css/style.css’); and I had previously changed the folder name. Hence I … Read more
Gutenberg table block with Bootstrap .table class
Since my theme did not recognize wp block table class I have added table Sass class from Gutenberg to my theme. .wp-block-table { width: 100%; min-width: 240px; border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 24px; td, th { padding: .3em; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); word-break: break-all; } th { text-align: center; } }
Inserting code to HTML view from a pop up initiated from visual view
Question 1: Is it a plugin or hack that can allow one to parse html inside the visual view Neither of both. The visual view is the visual view and not the HTML view. If you want to paste HTML, use the HTML view. Question 2: Is it possible to insert html code to the … Read more
Filter Categories widget to allow custom sorting?
Hi @Scott B: From /wp-includes/widgets.php for the WP_Category_Widget class we have the following code (line 438 in WordPress v3.0.4): $cat_args = array(‘orderby’ => ‘name’, ‘show_count’ => $c, ‘hierarchical’ => $h); if ( $d ) { $cat_args[‘show_option_none’] = __(‘Select Category’); wp_dropdown_categories( apply_filters(‘widget_categories_dropdown_args’,$cat_args) ); From that I would surmise the hook ‘widget_categories_dropdown_args’ should allow you to set … Read more
Is disabling test_form in wp_handle_upload a security concern?
I wouldn’t say security concern – since you’re using this plugin within the admin (I presume after the user has been authenticated i.e. after admin_init), then already you’ve got protection against any Jon Doe posting a form to your script. What it does provide, is an additional layer of authentication. All it really boils down … Read more
Determining URIs for plugin pages
You can dynamically generate those URLs like this: $url = add_query_arg( array( ‘page’ => ‘slug’, // whatever the page slug should be, either for this page or the other pages ), admin_url( ‘options-general.php’ ) );
Issue with contextual help overwriting existing content
In order to not delete help from all other screens, you need to always return the contextual help text, otherwise your filter doesn’t return anything for non-page/post screens and so nothing will show up. Move the return to the bottom of the function, outside of your if/else. Also, the original contextual help is being concatenated … Read more