If your using a MAC you will need to set file permissions to allow for updating and downloading plugins/themes without the use of setting up the FTP and manually adding them into the htdocs folder. The link below will walk you through this to set it up to work. http://ghosthorses.co.uk/production-diary/auto-update-wordpress-plugins-on-localhost-xampp-on-mac-osx/ http://wpforce.com/auto-update-wordpress-xampp-osx/ This video will show … Read more
Why not do it via URL parameter? You said you can’t because Codex told you not to. But if you want to anyway, you could use a GET parameter: // http://example.com/page-slug/?direction=DESC if($_GET[‘direction’] == ‘DESC’){ $order=”DESC”; } else { $order=”ASC”; } $args = array( … … ‘order’ => $order, );
WordPress crops the image proportional to the uploaded images dimensions, unless for the thumbnail size you specify to crop the thumbnail ( option provided only for thumbnails ). Hence the images being created are renamed to the size they are being cropped to. By default WordPress creates 4 images or less depending on the size … Read more
go here /wp-admin/options-permalink.php and save your permalink structure. if it does not work – check your slugs again
One of the sites I have used and sometimes still reference if i forget … is http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/ This tutorial is a little old but is great for a beginner to get their feet wet as it takes you step by step on how to build a theme and how to test locally before you upload. … Read more
If you know that you or the client will NEVER need to be translated there is no need to replace all the strings within your theme with gettext. Regarding the performance issue I found a benchmark comparing the 3 gettex methods. It also compared using the default local vs a different local and the differences … Read more
Avoid global variables, they could be overwritten by other code. You could use a helper function with a static internal variable instead. Sample code: function wpse_69365_var_storage( $var = NULL ) { static $internal; if ( NULL !== $var ) { $internal = $var; } return $internal; } // first call: wpse_69365_var_storage( 4 ); // later … Read more
wp_create_nav_menu() function accepts the menu name and not the menu location. and as for wp_update_menu_item() well its for items and not the menu itself. After digging in the code i found out that “assignment” of ‘theme location’ to a menu is not done using of the nav_menu API in WordPress but with theme options so: … Read more
I think you can use query_posts() function instead of get_pages(), and use a pagination plugin like wp-pagenavi. The query_posts() will set variables for pagination as well without any afforts.
get_posts() returns an array, not a WP_Query object. If you want to use have_posts() and related functions, use a “raw” WP_Query object.