It’s not a core behaviour to overwrite the global $_GET array, which means it’s likely that something else then WordPress itself is the issue here. I would suggest the following steps to debug the issue: Disable all active plugins and revert to standard theme, see if the problem persists. If the problem is still there, … Read more
Setting Cookie Using a Variable from the URL
I recommend you to store it in WordPress options table using function add_option() function as this is site specific data and not post/category specific.
Those are the Mustache-inspired syntax you are talking about. That can be acheived using wp.template WordPress function. The script you showing is javascript templating in WordPress wp.template() is a cool little JavaScript utility method WordPress uses this utility to load templates for all of the backbone views, but backbone is not required to use it. … Read more
Just check if the variable is set, using the code from your link: add_action( ‘init’, ‘set_agent_cookie’ ); function set_agent_cookie() { if (isset($_GET[‘code’])) { $name=”agent”; $id = $_GET[‘code’]; setcookie( $name, $id, time() + 3600, “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”, COOKIE_DOMAIN ); } }
Why do you need this? In wp-config you can set defines. They will be accesible everywhere without needing to use globals. Define something: define(‘MY_DEFINE_NAME’, ‘THE_VALUE’);. Then in your templates you can show the value like this: echo MY_DEFINE_NAME; Or set the value to a variable: $var = MY_DEFINE_NAME;.
Your installation might be … less than optimal. Using my Mini Theme, no plugins and the following code on the front page right after the opening body tag … print count( $GLOBALS ) . ‘ $GLOBALS<br>’; print @count( get_defined_vars(), 1 ) . ‘ variables<br>’; print count( get_defined_constants( TRUE )[‘user’] ) . ‘ constants’; … I … Read more
This is perhaps too broad a question to answer well. The $post global could be used in all sorts of ways. Whether or not it should be used depends on each circumstance. However, as I understand it, the main intended purpose of the $post global is its use in theme template files. When you use … Read more
I’ve defined a variable – let’s call it $header_var, which is placed in the header.php file. I would like this variable to be passed onto my template file (in this case taxonomy.php). global is not a very recommended way to do the trick, but it works if you use it properly: put it before to … Read more
Post object is mostly queried row of wp_posts database table with some extras. It is easy to dump content of one and see: object(stdClass) public ‘ID’ => int public ‘post_author’ => string public ‘post_date’ => string public ‘post_date_gmt’ => string public ‘post_content’ => string public ‘post_title’ => string public ‘post_excerpt’ => string public ‘post_status’ => … Read more