theme-development

Can I create my own “Recent Posts” widget or customize the existing one?

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It’s usually best to copy the existing one, name it something unique, and then add your own functionality. Copy the WP_Widget_Recent_Posts class from wp-includes/class-wp-widget-recent-posts.php into your functions.php (or, preferably, another file in your theme devoted just to widgets) and rename to something else, like My_Widget_Recent_Posts Add your functionality in there. Don’t forget to call register_widget(‘My_Widget_Recent_Posts’) … Read more

wp_redirect() – headers already sent

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Found the answer (via) Instead of using the function I added an action to “wp_loaded”, that makes sure that it gets loaded before any headers are sended. <?php add_action (‘wp_loaded’, ‘my_custom_redirect’); function my_custom_redirect() { if ( isset( $_POST[‘subscribe’] ) ) { $redirect=”http://example.com/redirect-example-url.html”; wp_redirect($redirect); exit; } } ?>

Solutions for generating dynamic javascript / CSS

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One additional option, depending on the kind of parameters you need to pass in. Let’s call it (2a). You can also create PHP scripts which output dynamically-generated text/css or text/javascript rather than text/html, and provide them the data that they need using GET parameters rather than by loading up WordPress. Of course this only works … Read more

Theme Activate Hook

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I have that code here just name the file theme_activation_hook.php like on the website and copy this. <?php /** * Provides activation/deactivation hook for wordpress theme. * * @author Krishna Kant Sharma (http://www.krishnakantsharma.com) * * Usage: * ———————————————- * Include this file in your theme code. * ———————————————- * function my_theme_activate() { * // code … Read more

get_template_part vs action hooks in themes

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I prefer hooks, since they are more flexible: you can hook into them from your theme’s functions.php file, but also from plugins. I try to put as much logic in plugins, so that the themes contain mostly layout stuff. If you use an action hook, it is still possible to use get_template_part() in that hook … Read more

pass object/JSON to wp_localize_script

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Indeed, wp_localize_script() is simple, it just adds quotes around the values and escapes the content, expecting all of them to be strings. However, there is the l10n_print_after key of the array, which will be printed without any interference at all. It can be used to execute arbitrary code after the strings are passed. You can … Read more