You might want to head over to Themeforest.net and browse their wide selection of themes until you find something that’s modular like. Otherwise you could create a very simple theme your self as I assume you’re going to be pulling in data from either RSS or API calls. You could effectively create the exact layout … Read more
WordPress load is complicated process and hard to grasp in full. The very basic overview would be like this. What you should do for starters – think in specifics. A lot of common tasks (adding scripts, using hooks, etc) are standardized technically or conventionally. So go by task – decide what you want to do … Read more
Neither. Theme options should be stored as theme mods, using get_theme_mod and set_theme_mod. Internally these map on to options, but it is the official way to store theme specific options, that way when you change themes you don’t get clashes, and your settings are preserved for if you ever change back. It’s the classic adage … Read more
The Pinboard theme is in the WordPress theme repository and released under the GPL license, this means that you are free to use and redistribute the theme code. The GPL license gives you…. the freedom to use the software for any purpose, the freedom to change the software to suit your needs, the freedom to … Read more
Using the_widget() is the correct way to “hard code” an arbitrary Widget in a template file: <?php the_widget( ‘foobar_widget’, $instance, $args ); ?> Since the_widget() simply returns if ‘foobar_widget’ is not a registered Widget, it is functionally equivalent to using an if ( function_exists( $function ) ) conditional. You could look in core to see … Read more
If you have multisite install you have to first enable those new themes in network admin, under “Themes”…
The translation strings not only get parsed during rendering (output on screen/in browser), but also by the GNU gettext parser. This one is not a PHP parser, so it can’t fetch variables. This is the only part of a Theme or a Plugin, where you need to repeat yourself and add the plain string to … Read more
You are correct, that WordPress will load the style.css file from your parent theme first, and then the style.css from your child theme. These means because of how CSS itself works, you have to specifically override any rule you wish to override. What this means is that you would need to modify the CSS within … Read more
The file name is functions.php, not function.php. Note the “s”. Otherwise, the code should work, and does work when I try it.
If you can log into your host with SSH or FTP, it’s an easy fix. Like the comments said before, check your permissions for the WordPress directory. For example, if you check the hosting directory with ls -al (typically /var/www, as on DigitalOcean), they should look something like this: drwxrwxr-x 6 www-data www-data 4096 Nov … Read more