that’s not the way, wp_register_sidebar_widget is used to create widgets. if you want your sidebar to display widgets by default use [dynamic_sidebar()][1] in your theme eg from the 2010 theme: <div id=”primary” class=”widget-area” role=”complementary”> <ul class=”xoxo”> <?php /* When we call the dynamic_sidebar() function, it’ll spit out * the widgets for that widget area. If … Read more
How to disable the gradient and font size internal CSS added by WordPress when using theme.json
I would recommend having two static Pages for this arrangement: The static page to serve as the Placeholder for your site front page The static page to hold the content you want to display as an excerpt on the front page Then, in front-page.php, you simply query static page 2 above, and output post-excerpt and … Read more
Parsing and modifying HTML properly using the standard PHP library is quite a pain. There are many gotchas. Here’s a well documented example that will add the img-fluid class to all images in the content. To ensure that the doctype and HTML tags are not added to the HTML fragment a solution from this StackOverflow … Read more
You’re close. You just need to replace changeTheChoices() with set() as this is a method on wp.customize.Setting. See the following which also refactors a bit: wp.customize( ‘setting_category’, ‘setting_font’, function( categorySetting, fontSetting ) { categorySetting.bind( function( category ) { var newChoices = {}; // get new data from JSON using ‘category’ and populate the ‘newChoices’ fontSetting.set( … Read more
require_once ‘wordpress/wp-load.php’; wp_footer(); Maybe you have to remove some things from the footer-file (e.g. Powered By WordPress). With var_dump( $wp_actions ); you can see which actions was executed (a list of action hooks). And with var_dump( $wp_filter[‘wp_footer’] ); you can see which actions are registred for the specific hook (here wp_footer).
I would recommend that you have your theme require the wordpress.org version of the wpaudioplayer plugin. There is a great article about having themes check for and require plugins. As is well-argued on this WPSE answer, it’s not a great idea to take code from a plugin and include it in your theme because you … Read more
I think the plugin you mention is the one I wrote so if you’re looking for answer on how to do it take a look at the code. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dropdown-menus/ Essentially all I did was create a custom menu walker class so I could output the menus created in the backend as a dropdown. If it … Read more
The general concept on dynamic sidebars Basically WP loops through the global $wp_registered_widgets and builds the widget depending on it’s arguments. You can intercept them easily: Use a filter You can use the dynamic_sidebar_params to add a class to target specific widgets: // SHOW the params for better insights function wpse44903_dump_sidebar_params( $params ) { echo … Read more
You won’t be calling stuff directly from the functions.php file by URL reference. The functions.php is loaded in with the WordPress theme and it makes functions available to you from within the theme template files. Most of your code can be ported directly into the functions.php but you will have to wrap some sort of … Read more