Custom UI is great where it improves the experience and makes the task easier. After all, a plugin extends WordPress and therefore a lot of the time is extending the user interface. This might mean a screen that is arranged completely differently to any other screen, but if it is logical and understandable then there’s … Read more
I’m starting a new plugin with OOP style What does ‘OOP style’ means for you? Wrapping all your functions with a class statement? Then you doing it wrong. You missuse the class as namespace. and I just found out that my main class is being instanciated a lot Huh? class Foo { public function __construct() … Read more
You can modify your menu by using walker. include(‘subMenu.php’); $menu = wp_nav_menu( array(‘menu’ => ‘YOUR-MENU-NAME’,’menu_class’ => ‘megamenu’,’walker’ => new subMenu)); create a file subMenu.php in theme folder add below code. <?php class subMenu extends Walker_Nav_Menu { function end_el(&$output, $item, $depth=0, $args=array()) { if( ‘Item 3’ == $item->title ){ $output .= ‘<ul class=”sub-menu”> <li class=”menu-item” id=”menu-item-48″><a … Read more
Create WordPress as a project. I have several such projects, trunk, old versions … for the following, I just use a project named WP Latest Final. You can use the standard installation with /wp-content/plugins. I put my wp-content directory in a Dropbox and tell WP via wp-config.php where to search for it. Create a new … Read more
You don’t need to invent a new screen option row. Just use proper metaboxes. Currently, you are drawing pseudo-metaboxes: <!– Post status start–> <div class = “postbox”> <div class = “handlediv”> <br> </div> <h3 class = “hndle”><span><?php _e(“By Post Status”, ‘bulk-delete’); ?></span></h3> <div class = “inside”> <h4><?php _e(“Select the posts which you want to delete”, … Read more
My point of view is that main purpose and benefit of Settings API is structure. It helps to keep complex settings setups: orderly (logic of registration and sections); secure (nonces, validation callbacks); extensible (hooking into another page or allowing to be hooked into). As with any such structural overhead it benefits more complex use cases … Read more
I wrote a PHP class that allows a plugin developer to incorporate updates from GitHub within their plugin. Here’s a link for it -> https://github.com/jkudish/WordPress-GitHub-Plugin-Updater
in your code above use get_the_excerpt() instead of the_excerpt(), because the last one will output the excerpt to the screen, and not pass it to your other functions…
The appropriate place IMHO would be a custom folder that you create inside the wp-content directory Read this before creating files: http://ottopress.com/2011/tutorial-using-the-wp_filesystem/
First of all, WordPress registers jQuery UI via wp_default_scripts(). Dependencies are already set, so you only need to enqueue the script you really need (and not the core). Since you’re not changing version number or anything, it is ok to only use the handle. // no need to enqueue -core, because dependancies are set wp_enqueue_script( … Read more