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How to implement color picker from wordpress in my plugin?

Yes, there is: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2012/11/30/new-color-picker-in-wp-3-5/ 1. You should enqueue scripts and styles… add_action( ‘admin_enqueue_scripts’, ‘mw_enqueue_color_picker’ ); function mw_enqueue_color_picker( $hook_suffix ) { // first check that $hook_suffix is appropriate for your admin page wp_enqueue_style( ‘wp-color-picker’ ); wp_enqueue_script( ‘my-script-handle’, plugins_url(‘my-script.js’, __FILE__ ), array( ‘wp-color-picker’ ), false, true ); } 2. … add an input… <input type=”text” value=”#bada55″ class=”my-color-field” … Read more

Remove profile picture option (and other things) from profile.php (in admin)

We can use the show_avatars option to remove the Profile Picture section. We can visit /wp-admin/options.php to turn it off manually. Or update it with: update_option( ‘show_avatars’, 0 ); Or modify it through a filter: add_filter( ‘option_show_avatars’, ‘__return_false’ ); We could also restrict it to the profile.php page: add_action( ‘load-profile.php’, function() { add_filter( ‘option_show_avatars’, ‘__return_false’ … Read more

$wpdb->insert_id

There is no other way, but I can not see how you need any other way then this. I believe that the insert ID accessed by $wpdb is the last ID by this instance of WPDB, other inserts should not affect that but I’m not sure. <?php $wpdb->insert(“QUERY”); $this_insert = $wpdb->insert_id; ?>

Default table collation on plugin activation?

You’re missing the point that there is collation not only for the DB but as well for tables and even fields. Therefore from your point of view, I assume that your CREATE TABLE statement is “not complete”. Before using SQL statements, please learn the language first. See CREATE TABLE Syntax (MySQL Manual). Especially table_options / … Read more

What is the correct way to build a widget using OOP

You can simply put your init code within the constructor of the class. For example: class myWidget extends WP_Widget{ function myWidget(){ // Init code here } function widget( $args, $instance ) { // The widget code wp_enqueue_script(…); wp_enqueue_style(…); } // Over methods… } register_widget(‘myWidget’); My preference is to actually put the enqueue calls within the … Read more

How do I log plugin (cron) actions?

Use a file to write the events to. There are several drawbacks here; Filesystem permissions. When you deploy your app, you will have to take care to remember to give the webserver permission to write to the file. And to be extra sure, you’d have to write code which checks whether you can write to … Read more

Making a plugin file accessible via url rewrite?

Mark, I hate to say it, but you’re going about this the wrong way. PHP files in your plug-in should never be accessed directly in this way. Instead, they should be loaded from within WordPress just like everything else. Here are some alternative paths you could take: Create an admin page that displays your stats … Read more

Best practices for using the transients API

Is this ok or should I just store it in an array form so I can just directly access it without using json_decode? In your case store it directly means store it serialized. Because $data is an array and cannot be stored as is, but converted to a string. Even if you access it directly … Read more

Fatal error: Class ‘ms\WP_Query’ not found on plugin initialization [closed]

Because you’re using a namespace in this class, you need to add a \ in front of the WP_Query call to tell PHP that it’s in the global namespace and not the namespace of this class. Try this: $query = new \WP_Query($args);

Plugin directory “Last Updated” not changed after initial commit?

I’ve been trying to work out the issue for months now, and have made several adjustments to try to solve the problem. In short: Yes, we know there’s a problem. No, I don’t know how to fix it yet. You can stop reporting it already. Current workaround: ANY commit of any kind should trigger it … Read more

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