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Adding customizer styles with wp_add_inline_style

You can try to detect if the current used theme is a child and if so pointing the inline CSS to the right style. I didn’t tested this solution but could be a good starting point. function mytheme_enqueue_style() { wp_enqueue_style( ‘parent-theme-style’,get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’, false ); if(is_child_theme()) { wp_enqueue_style( ‘child-theme-style’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’, array(‘parent-theme-style’) ); } … Read more

Is it feasible to build and update a WordPress website offline?

It totally depends on the types of changes being made. If you’re modifying a theme or a plugin, depending on what the changes are, you can likely build them locally or on a remote dev server, then push them to production with ease. That works for a user or two, with more users you need … Read more

How do I show sticky posts on a static front page that also contains content?

Something like this should work: $sticky = get_option( ‘sticky_posts’ ); if ( !empty( $sticky ) ) { // don’t show anything if there are no sticky posts $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, // show all sticky posts ‘post__in’ => $sticky, ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => 1 ); $query = new WP_Query( $args ); if ( $query->have_posts() ) … Read more

Remove settings if theme is deleted?

As the other answers seem to imply, there is no built-in way to do this. There is no theme uninstall API similar to that for plugins. There is actually a long-standing ticket to get this feature added to WordPress core, so that themes can uninstall themselves. The consensus from the lead developers there seems to … Read more

how to test a theme upgrade

You are asking two questions. The one being how can you test an update and the other being how can you run code after an update. You can test a theme update by pushing the updates out your self and testing it if it works. You can do that by using GitHub Updater. If you … Read more

Display a different theme for not logged-in users

Try hooking on all these: (But I guess you’d have to do it from a plugin, since doing it from theme functions.php might be too late). E.g.: /* Plugin Name: test Description: switchtest Version: 0.1.0 */ add_filter( ‘template’, ‘yourthing_switch_theme’ ); add_filter( ‘option_template’, ‘yourthing_switch_theme’ ); add_filter( ‘option_stylesheet’, ‘yourthing_switch_theme’ ); add_filter( ‘pre_option_stylesheet’, ‘yourthing_switch_theme’ ); function yourthing_switch_theme( $theme … Read more

How can I get wp_head() as a string instead of echoing it?

You can use PHP’s output buffering. WIth this you can write a wrapper for the get_head() function function wpse251841_wp_head() { ob_start(); wp_head(); return ob_get_clean(); } You can then use this as $data = array( ‘wpHead’ => wpse251841_wp_head(), ‘postContent’ => $post->post_content, ‘postContentFiltered’ => apply_filters( ‘the_content’, $post->post_content ) ); Reference: Output Control Functions

How to call the_excerpt() with tags or the_content() as an excerpt?

Actually, I just did something like this for a Drupal site. I based my truncation function on this: Truncate text preserving HTML tags with PHP Use the final version of the function at the end of the comments. The function takes its $length parameter in characters, not words, but you can probably use the general … Read more

Enqueue scripts inside a class

You mean you call your class right before closing HTML tag? It is too late to enqueue scripts then. Don’t hook into wp_print_scripts to enqueue your scripts and styles. I just learned this today from Rarst. So change your init_hooks function to something like following: public function init_hooks() { add_action(‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, array(__CLASS__,’include_all_files’)); } Also you are … Read more

How to add default images for custom backgrounds?

if you are asking default background image for add_theme_support( ‘custom-background’); then it can be set using ‘default-image’ => get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/images/pattern.png’, complete code will look like below. $args = array( ‘default-color’ => ‘f0f0f0’, ‘default-repeat’ => ‘fixed’, ‘default-image’ => get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/assets/images/pattern.png’, ); add_theme_support( ‘custom-background’, $args );

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