You need to either Version your files (by calling it style.css?ver=xxx.xxx) and making sure your CloudFront distribution has “Forward Query strings” turned on. This is the better option, as it means that all you need to do is increment the number in the query string and CloudFront will fetch this file automatically. Manually invalidate your … Read more
Well, you actually do not need anything special to have two different languages in the back end and in the front end. I just tested it again on WP 5.1 go to the settings and set the Site Language to the front end laguage, for example – German, then save. go to Users and then … Read more
I totally agree with Rarst. I just want to add some small things. Note: I differentiate parent theme and framework. In my answer, I consider parent theme like TwentyEleven where it’s mainly created for a specific website and less hooks than a framework. Starter theme: Pros Easy to customize at HTML level. I mean something … Read more
I found (part) of the css code that controls the height in wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/style.css. There is code that applies when the admin bar is not visible (typical anonymous user) currently at line 3629 .twentyseventeen-front-page.has-header-image .custom-header-media, .twentyseventeen-front-page.has-header-video .custom-header-media, .home.blog.has-header-image .custom-header-media, .home.blog.has-header-video .custom-header-media { height: 1200px; height: 100vh; max-height: 100%; overflow: hidden; } And code that applies when … Read more
Since WordPress is licensed as GPLv2, you can license any addition (i.e. theme) with a license that’s compatible with version 2 of the GPL. Now here’s the unfortunate part … version 1 of the aGPL is not compatible with any version of the GPL. Version 3, however, is compatible with GPLv3 … but not GPLv2. … Read more
Does this licensing scheme (for file groups) violates the WordPress license? No, only the PHP code needs to be GPL’d. A popular example is Thesis: http://mashable.com/2010/07/22/thesis-relents/ http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/why-wordpress-themes-are-derivative-of-wordpress/ Do I have to publish the PHP code of the theme so it is available to everyone? You don’t have to publish it if your intention is to … Read more
As you’ve already discovered, links to the customizer always start with /wp-admin/customize.php. Append ?autofocus[section] =section_name to checkout your section within the customizer. Both parameters (section and section_name) are registered within your customize_register hook: $wp_customize->add_section If you can’t find the hook, check the HTML markup of the customizer for further information. Both parameters are included within … Read more
This depends on how the theme was developed from the beginning. Theoretically, if everything was coded to standards you can rename the folder and nothing bad will happen. When renaming the folder you are at risk of breaking code that asks specifically for files from the theme directory by name. WordPress offers a number of … Read more
You might be looking for the after_setup_theme hook: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/after_setup_theme
I think I found a solution, but before a little Premise load_theme_textdomain() and load_child_theme_textdomain() are basically equal, the only difference is the default path they use: they get the current language (using get_locale()) and add the relative .mo file to the path passed as argument; then they call load_textdomain() passing as argument both the textdomain … Read more