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Copying theme from Localhost to Live does not copy all theme settings with it?

Since I found this script, I have used it for every single move I make from Localhost to Live or vice versa. It’s incredibly simple to use and has worked every time. https://github.com/interconnectit/Search-Replace-DB (Review: https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ ) From their site: You must use a safe search and replace method that preserves the integrity of the serialized … Read more

Load a theme based on browser detection

You can use the built in function wp_is_mobile() Override a style with wp_enqueue_style add_action(‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘my_mobile_styles’); function my_mobile_styles(){ if(wp_is_mobile()){ wp_register_style( ‘my-mobile-style’, ‘URL_to_stylesheet’, array(‘id-of-main-stylesheet’) ); wp_enqueue_style( ‘my-mobile-style’ ); } } Switch themes by filters You can use the stylesheet and template filters to alter which theme WordPress will render. # Parent Theme add_filter( ‘template’, ‘my_mobile_template’, 99999, 1); … Read more

What does the term “bundled-theme” mean?

The term bundled theme is simply just a name/term used for the default (twenty-something) themes shipped with wordpress. The current version of wordpress 3.9.1 have three of themes shipped by default, namely ‘twentytwelve‘, ‘twentythirteen‘ and ‘twentyfourteen‘. The two previous twenty-something themes namely ‘twentyten‘ and ‘twentyeleven‘ are also available for download and is still currently been … Read more

Are custom inner theme folders in any way overridable by child themes?

It depends entirely on the parent theme. While WordPress will check the child theme for templates in the Template Hierarchy and use those if they are present, it’s up to theme authors to decide how much overwriting by child themes they want to support for any other files outside this hierarchy. For example, when including … Read more

The style.css stylesheet doesn’t contain a valid theme header

Remove the extra space from the header. Try like below: /* Theme Name: shah Theme URI: Author: shah Author URI: http://shah.gq Description: WordPress Theme Version: 1.0 */

Visually change theme via query string?

There are plenty of plugins for something like this, but there are a lot of nuances between them (who can swtich, how to switch, etc). See theme preview tag in repository for starters.

Custom Upload Panel in Menu Bar

I think it’s not necessary to use a theme folder to hold some slider pictures. You can use a post or a page to be the “gallery holder” (it can even be left as draft), and pull its image attachments like this: function getSimpleGal($id){ $results = get_children( array( ‘post_parent’ => $id, ‘post_status’ => ‘inherit’, ‘post_type’ … Read more

WP Video media player not loading correct CSS after AJAX load

I call mediaelementplayer() from ajax success function. It works for me. $.get(ajaxPostUrl,function(data){ var posts = $(data).find(‘.post’); $(‘#post-container’).append(posts); posts.find(‘video,audio’).mediaelementplayer(/* Options */); });

Retaining old HTML archives and displaying themes conditionally

Checkout Stephanie Leary’s HTML Import Plugin. She is an expert on importing old HTML pages into WordPress. You just point the plugin at the existing HTML pages on your server and it pulls them in. To archive you could create a custom taxonomy for the years and use WordPress archive pages to display them.

Duplicate and change a Theme Widget

Widgets extend the Widget Class, search in the theme code for a class that extends WP_Widget. Copy/Paste it, rename it, and change what you’d like. You can also look in the file wp-includes/default-widgets.php and use one of those as a starting point.

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