Although I don’t agree with your purpose, here the action hooks you may use (you have not shown us what you are using to save the options, so I can not say which one is better). If you use add_option to save options: add_option_{option_name}: Runs after a the option with name “option_name” has been added … Read more
https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/{plugin-name}.latest-stable.zip The structure should be the same for all WordPress.org plugins and the link you’re looking for is: https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/backupwordpress.latest-stable.zip. You can see an example here on how this might be used. To update plugins through WP-CLI: wp plugin update backupwordpress
I think you’ve got a naming conflict there — assuming that your plugin is linking to this Simple Contact Form — try changing the name to something like “Wilco’s Simple Contact Form”. You’ll need to update the plugin folder name and the main plugin file name as well. Update As Aniket points out, you might … Read more
AFAIK there is only one way to remove blocks from Gutenberg – you have to use allowed_block_types filter. Unfortunately Gutenberg developers are not very familiar with WordPress hooks and filters, so they created a little monster with this one. So instead of passing a list of core blocks in there, they pass true to enable … Read more
If you are still looking for an alternative that may be faster this may help you: <?php function customBlogFeed() { // The Query $the_query = new WP_Query( array ( ‘post_type’ => array( ‘post’, ‘page’, ‘movie’, ‘book’), ‘posts_per_page’ => ‘6’ ) ); //Your post_type array is a list of random post_types. You can add whatever you’d … Read more
The solution that we have gone with in the end uses a single call to get_user_meta passing just the $user_id – this way all user data is returned in a single query, reducing a heavy load on the DB during large user data exports. We then run a series of checks against the returned data … Read more
since you’re developing a plug-in, I assume you don’t want to touch any files outside of wp-content/plugins or ../themes for that matter. However, if that’s not the case, follow along: Go to wp-admin/includes/meta-boxes.php and find: $visibility = ‘public’; $visibility_trans = __(‘Public’); Now change it to the obvious: $visibility = ‘private’; $visibility_trans = __(‘Private’); Again, this … Read more
It really depends on the developer and how they’ve been trained to use WordPress. In general, I’ve seen two schools of thought: Organic Some developers find a feature in a plugin that they think is really cool. Unfortunately, they aren’t quite sure how to implement it on their own but really want to include the … Read more
Use Plugin Organizer. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/plugin-organizer/. It cant disable plugins by template but it can disable them by post, page, custom post_type, or arbitrary URL.
Method 1 is much more robust and extendable, in my opinion. Method 1: To add or remove forms, or other functionality, you just add or remove functions. In particular, you can do this from other files, such as separate modules of your plugin or other external plugins. I think this is the main argument in … Read more