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A way to automatically install pages on theme install?

I got similiar situation where I needed to add page on theme activation and set it as homepage automatically. Here’s how I did it: add_action(‘after_setup_theme’, ‘mytheme_setup’); function mytheme_setup(){ if(get_option(‘page_on_front’)==’0′ && get_option(‘show_on_front’)==’posts’){ // Create homepage $homepage = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘page’, ‘post_title’ => ‘Home’, ‘post_content’ => ”, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘post_author’ => 1 ); // Insert … Read more

Custom Image section in Customizer

So I did some research on the matter and I found a solution. Basically WordPress has this cool feature where you can call something called get_theme_mod so what I essentially did was add get_theme_mod inside my <img> src. So this is what I changed my <img> tag to after finding out about get_theme_mod: <img src=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/215701/<?php … Read more

How to enqueue script if widget is displayed on page?

You should be able to call wp_enqueue_script() as part of your Widget output. Edit Quick-and-dirty, using the bare-bones Widgets API class example: <?php class wpse48337_Widget extends WP_Widget { public function __construct() { // widget actual processes } public function form( $instance ) { // outputs the options form on admin } public function update( $new_instance, … Read more

“Quick Edit” > update clears out my custom meta values

Add a hidden flag to the post edit form along with your custom fields. Something like <input type=”hidden” name=”my_hidden_flag” value=”true” /> Then, wrap all of your custom save_post stuff in a check for this flag. Then you don’t have to check for the autosave constant any more either–if the flag doesn’t exist, it’s either a … Read more

CSS classes for theme

There are many CSS classes generated by WordPress, depending on context. The Theme Review Guidelines include the following, WordPress-generated CSS classes: Alignment Classes: .aligncenter .alignleft .alignright Caption Related Classes: .wp-caption .wp-caption-text .gallery-caption Post Classes: .sticky Comment Classes: .bypostauthor Then, there are the body classes generated by body_class(). Then, there are the post classes generated by … Read more

Reset positions of metaboxes in admin

In you PhpMyAdmin query for: (if you have a different database prefix, change that in the query, also change the user_id to yours) SELECT * FROM `wp_usermeta` WHERE `user_id` =1 AND `meta_key` LIKE ‘meta-box%’ Than delete those values and you will get the original order back. If you only want to change the menu order … Read more

Should we use get_template_part() in functions files instead of include_once?

Your functions.php doesn’t create output, so you should use locate_template(). Example: locate_template( ‘php/functions.nav-menu.php’, TRUE, TRUE ); You’ll find this function in wp-includes/theme.php. The first parameter is the file path relative to the theme root, the second tells WordPress to load it (or not), and the third to load it just once. Now a child theme … Read more

What is the difference between wp_register_sidebar_widget and register_widget?

wp_register_sidebar_widget() is part of the old widgets API. Sidebar widgets used to be built procedurally … in a non-reusable fashion (i.e. you could only ever have one of each). register_widget() was introduced with the new Widgets API and takes an object/class as an input rather than actual widget parameters. WordPress can instantiate as many copies … Read more

Theme customizer – settings order

If you need them in a specific order, then give a priority value to the controls. Otherwise, their order is not defined and cannot be guaranteed. If you don’t define a priority, then the control gets the default priority of “10”. When two controls have the same priority, then the resulting order is undefined, because … Read more

WooCommerce shop page to use my custom template [closed]

By going through your question I want to tell you that woocommerce will not use your custom template. It will use its own template. As you want to use wordpress advanced custom fields plugin I want to tell you is that feature only works on the page and post. So as woocommerce will not allow … Read more

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