How Page Templates are loaded: According to the default WordPress Template Hierarchy, a page request loads a template based on the priority and naming as stated below: Custom Page Template: if defined in the page editor. page-{slug}.php page-{url-encoded-slug}.php: only for multi-byte characters. page-{id}.php page.php singular.php index.php Among these, singular.php and index.php are not actually page … Read more
If you are building this for a single client, you should absolutely take advantage of mu-plugins. There are a lot of things in WordPress that you can’t do in functions.php. Pluggable functions is one of them, but more obvious, a number of hooks (both actions and filters) fire before functions.php. In some cases, these hooks … Read more
No, $post_id is not a global variable. You can see a list of global variables WordPress creates here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Global_Variables $post_id is just a common naming convention for a variable that contains a post ID. In tutorials and example code it shows that the value is expected to be a post ID, but you still need … Read more
You can set the permalink structure by calling on the set_permalink_structure() method of the global $wp_rewrite object. add_action( ‘init’, function() { global $wp_rewrite; $wp_rewrite->set_permalink_structure( ‘/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/’ ); } ); Here’s a PHP < 5.3 version of the code in case you’re getting errors. function reset_permalinks() { global $wp_rewrite; $wp_rewrite->set_permalink_structure( ‘/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/’ ); } add_action( ‘init’, ‘reset_permalinks’ );
Try modifying the header section a bit to comply with the standards. Here is what your code right now: <div id=”header-image”> <img width=”1102″ height=”350″ alt=”” class=”header-image” src=”http://onofri.org/example/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/header1.jpg”> </div> Here is how you can modify the things: <div id=”header-image”> <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/104349/<?php echo esc_url( home_url(“https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/” ) ); ?>” title=”<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( ‘name’, ‘display’ ) ); ?>” … Read more
In addition to Toscho’s answer here’s what you need for a robust solution: // if no title then add widget content wrapper to before widget add_filter( ‘dynamic_sidebar_params’, ‘check_sidebar_params’ ); function check_sidebar_params( $params ) { global $wp_registered_widgets; $settings_getter = $wp_registered_widgets[ $params[0][‘widget_id’] ][‘callback’][0]; $settings = $settings_getter->get_settings(); $settings = $settings[ $params[1][‘number’] ]; if ( $params[0][ ‘after_widget’ ] == … Read more
For every enqueue action, there is a corresponding print_styles action: wp_enqueue_scripts → wp_print_styles admin_enqueue_scripts → admin_print_styles customize_controls_enqueue_scripts → customize_controls_print_styles Not for the login page. There is no login_print_styles action or function, so your stylesheets are thrown out on do_action( ‘login_footer’ );. But there is a simple fix: if ( ! has_action( ‘login_enqueue_scripts’, ‘wp_print_styles’ ) ) … Read more
That’s a nice option, but I agree with sri, right now it really depends on your theme. You can do a work-around through is_page(). You need to write something like this on your page.php theme file: <?php if (is_page(‘projects’)) { if ( is_active_sidebar( ‘sidebar-navigation’ )) { dynamic_sidebar( ‘sidebar-navigation’ ); } } ?> If you want … Read more
Here’s an example; First to figure out the order of the sub menu items based upon its array key you can do a var_dump on the $submenu global variable which will output the following; (I’m using the Posts menu and sub menu as an example) //shortened for brevity…. [“edit.php”]=> array(6) { [5]=> array(3) { [0]=> … Read more
Using a class for encapsulation is a very common approach by a number of developers for plugins. I do this, and I do find it cleaner. But for plugins. Themes are more procedural by nature. We don’t do it for default WordPress themes because it raises the barrier to entry. The functions are quite simple. … Read more