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
You can use __DIR__ constant. Since the file is either inside plugin or theme folder, which are always located inside wp-content folder.. You can simply get the path of the file and trim everything starting from wp-content from it: $path = preg_replace(‘/wp-content.*$/’,”,__DIR__); If you need to make sure the wp is not inside some wp-content … Read more
I’m going to post a partial answer to start the discussion in the hope of getting some helpful comments to fill in the blanks or alternative answers… Step 1: Install and Set Up boot2docker Docker only runs on Linux. So in order to use Docker on our Mac, we need to install boot2docker, which will … Read more
there are several guides in the Codex that can help, Set up your plugin for submission Submit your plugin Keep it up to date I also think it’s a great idea to “fix” older useful plugins 🙂 Steps: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/ Submit: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add/ How to Use Subversion: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/svn/ Promotion and additional info: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_Submission_and_Promotion Using subversion depends on … Read more
Maybe a little late but I stumbled on this when I was having issues figuring it out so thought I would supply what I found out for future people. I’ve found the basic principles are to have a hidden input named action and it’s value being a custom set identifier. For example <input name=”action” type=”hidden” … Read more