get_the_ID() returns the ID of the current post by way of get_post. Get post assumes the current post to be the global variable $post unless passed parameters specifying otherwise. That means that get_the_ID() should return the same value as contained in $post->ID. Using get_the_ID() lets you avoid dealing with the global directly, though you are … Read more
Excellent responses on WP Hackers: http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2012-June/043213.html What you’re doing with that query, is loading EVERY matching post into memory, including the full post contents. As you can imagine, this is probably quite a lot of items. You can pass ‘fields’ => ‘ids’ into WP_Query to simply return a list of matching post_ids instead, which should … Read more
There is an easy solution with a Firebox extension Xdebug Helper by Brian Gilbert. This sets cookies for the xdebug session which allows you to use xdebug within your WordPress plugins. There are also extensions for Chrome, Safari and Opera. The links can be found on the xdebug website
Interesting Question! I’ve never seen repeatable fields used in Widgets. Giving a full Answer would require too much work/time, so I’ll give you links to the resources I know, and hopefully you’ll make this work and share the solution with us 😉 All this examples deal with Meta Boxes, you’ll need to copy the jQuery … Read more
I would only increase the version number if users needed to download the plugin again. The “Tested up to” variable is not used when the plugin is installed, only when people want to install it or want to upgrade. In that case, the information comes from the server anyway, so you don’t need to force … Read more
Insert this into your wp-config.php // Enable WP_DEBUG mode define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true); // Enable Debug logging to the /wp-content/debug.log file define(‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, true); // Disable display of errors and warnings define(‘WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY’, false); @ini_set(‘display_errors’,0); Before /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */
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