Send the form action either to your homepage, or to a specific page URL. You can’t have $_POST handling within the template because you need to redirect after your process it, and redirect needs to be fired before any HTML output. // you should choose the appropriate tag here // template_redirect is fired just before … Read more
There are two concepts here: validation – making sure data is valid, i.e. an integer is an integer, a date is a date (in the right format etc). This should be done just before saving the data. sanitisation – making the date safe for its use in the current context (e.g. escaping SQL queries, or … Read more
Your code seems correct, but it will load the script only in admin area beacuse you are enqueuing the script in admin_enqueue_scripts action. To load the script in frontend, use wp_enqueue_scripts action (which is not the same that wp_enqueue_script() function): function Zumper_widget_enqueue_script() { wp_enqueue_script( ‘my_custom_script’, plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) . ‘js/jquery.repeatable.js’ ); } add_action(‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘Zumper_widget_enqueue_script’); Also, … Read more
Reference file in current path or deeper nested To reference the current path plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ).”further/nesting/here.css”; which works in Plugins and Themes. Reference URl/URi in a plugin To point to a plugin or theme file, use plugins_url( “path/to/file”, __FILE__ ); which works only in plugins Reference URl/URi in wp-admin folder Always point them to admin_url( … Read more
The default response from admin-ajax.php is, die( ‘0’ ); …by adding your own wp_die() or exit() or die() after returning your desired content prevents the default response from admin-ajax.php being returned as well. It also generally means that your ajax call has succeeded. Ultimately, to answer your question, it’s meant to work this way. What … Read more
add_action(‘new_to_publish’, ‘your_function’); add_action(‘draft_to_publish’, ‘your_function’); add_action(‘pending_to_publish’, ‘your_function’);
Like kaiser answered template_redirect hook is indeed appropriate for redirects. Also you should use wp_redirect() function, rather than setting header.
It is mandatory, though it is not enforced. Consider the scenario when two WordPress site has been setup in the same database. One with prefix wp_ and another with wp2_. If you install your plugin in both of the sites with the prefix, your created tables will be wp_liveshoutbox for first site and wp2_liveshoutbox for … Read more
“Error: Options Page Not Found” Bug This is a known issue in the WP Settings API. There was a ticket opened years ago, and it was marked as solved — but the bug persists in the latest versions of WordPress. This is what the (now removed) Codex page said about this: The “Error: options page … Read more
Admin pages don’t use the body_class filter, use the admin_body_class filter to add classes to admin body tag instead. Note that $classes in that case is a string, not an array.