Themes create the public (front-end) interface for a WordPress site.
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Show a WP 3.0 Custom Menu in an HTML Select with Auto-Navigation?
As part of a theme for a client, I want to be able to show a custom menu (defined via the admin) in a select box that automatically changes pages after changing the selection. Is there a plugin (or a ...
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How to concatenate inside the _e() function the right way?
I'm trying to create a function for the title inside my functions.php, I'm having a problem with the search title part where I have to concatenate here's the part with issues:
elseif (is_search()) {
...
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Should Plugin Folders Include a Blank index.php File?
WordPress itself, in the wp-content folder, includes an empty PHP file which looks like this.
<?php
// Silence is golden.
?>
Should plugins include an empty file like this as well to stop ...
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jQuery in header or footer
From my reading it seems there is a good case for loading scripts like jquery and dependencies into the footer as a preference if possible; however 2 things confuse me which. Firstly the default for ...
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do_shortcode() doesn't do shortcodes ;)
Imagine this basic shortcode in your functions.php file:
function div_shortcode( $atts ) {
return '<div class="div"></div>';
}
add_shortcode('div', 'div_shortcode');
So every [div] ...
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What is the purpose of an extra file for translation?
What code is required to put in functions.php in order to make the theme translation ready?
The TwentyEleven theme has only following line:
load_theme_textdomain( 'twentyeleven', ...
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Why to check if function doesn't exists in functions.php?
I see in the twentyeleven theme, before most custom functions they check if it exists
<?php if ( ! function_exists( 'twentyeleven_comment' ) ) :
function twentyeleven_comment( $comment, $args, ...
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Customize WordPress>Error Page
Is there a way to customize the WordPress>error page template so that the user isn't shown just a blank screen with text?
I'm not talking about 404, but when WordPress displays an error.
I'd like to ...
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How to display wp_nav_menu() conditionally only when not on a 404 page?
I made a custom design for my site. On my header i put my navigation so everytime i call the header the navigation will be called to, so that i would not be calling it all the time.
But now i have a ...
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How to set permalink structure via functions.php
I'm setting up a Wordpress Network and wanted all new sites to have the same permalink structure (i.e. "/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/"). I'm wondering if this is possible to do via hooks or hacks in ...
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What is the best book to learn how to make themes for wordpress?
Do you any good book or video tutorials that easily explain how can I make my own theme for Wordpress? and how to change the structure of the content?
Cheers.
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Is it proper to create a page just to generate a listing page (eg. for a custom post type)
I find myself creating pages just as a "placeholder" to a listing page.
eg. I create a page "Blog" and "Portfolio". Both has the editor emtpy. And I just use it so that I can use page-blog.php and ...
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Suggestions for creative use of post format feature, or themes that use them well
I'm looking for themes or examples of sites that use the post format feature in an interesting way.
I suppose adding special styling for each post format would be a good start. But if anyone knows ...
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How to add a WYSIWYG text editor to the Category Edit Screen
I've been working lots with categories lately, what with the increased awareness and demand for themed or silo'd site structures.
To that end, I'm looking to enhance my category landing pages by ...
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Add a notice to users upon first login to the admin area
I'd like to give users a little welcome message on their first login to the admin area. Once they hide the message it should not appear again. I noticed admin_notice is a hook but don't know where to ...
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wp_nav_menu() custom container and container_id
So today I started work on my first Wordpress theme and so far it's been a lot of fun. However, I have had difficulty in getting wp_nav_menu() to do what I want.
Here's what I want:
<nav ...
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With Wordpress themes, where do I store the images and files relatively?
In pure HTML, I'm used to storing the files relative to where the particular HTML file is, such as css/style.css.
However, with the theme I'm using with Wordpress, "Responsive" I don't know where the ...
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Pages: frontpage.php, home.php, posts page etc
When do I use the following:
home.php
frontpage.php
Under Settings > Reading Settings
Front Page
Posts Page
I wish to clarify this as I find myself using "Placeholder Pages", empty pages just ...
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Theme Review: post thumbnail, header image, content width
A followup to my previous question about my theme that was rejected for the WordPress.org theme directory:
RECOMMENDED: No reference to the_post_thumbnail() was found in the theme. It is ...
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How to effectively reset the post object after calling get_posts()
The function below is called from my index.php just below the main content block. Its purpose is to write out a link list of the latest posts. However, I need to reset the post object once this ...
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“Quick Edit” > update clears out my custom meta values
I have two custom meta fields that I've enabled for each post, scottb_customHeader and scottb_customTitle
These work fine as long as I'm using the full edit feature to edit posts. However, when I ...
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Should I use set_transient or update_option?
I want to store some Twitter API data in WordPress. After every hour, I want to fetch new data from Twitter, and update only if the data is successfully retrieved from API (sometimes the API gives ...
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When to use esc_url, esc_html, esc_attr, and friends?
Discovered esc_url today while customizing an _s theme. I understand what the function does (sanitizes the URL inside), but what I'm unsure of is the scope of its use.
It makes sense to me that if ...
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Are the wordpress Core css styles really all nessasary?
On WordPress Codex there are this CSS styles listed, its a quite big list of styles but it seems they are doubled unnecessary.
It says:
Each Theme should have these or similar styles in its ...
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How to get gallery images?
I have some images uploaded in wordpress posts (eg. post#1, and post#2). Now I've created a new post (eg. Post#3), and in this post I have inserted the WordPress 3.5 gallery, I did not upload any ...
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What is the best practice for customizing a plugin's JavaScript/jQuery?
Most well written plugins support a safe means for a developer to customize/theme the plugin by copying PHP files to the theme directory and modifying the copies rather than the original plugin file. ...
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Custom Taxonomy Tree view
I have been trying google for this, but not so easy to search for. I have a custom hierarchical taxonomy, something along the lines of:
Chainsaws
- Electric
- Petrol
- Other
Grasscutters
- Electric
- ...
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How to set the default value of a option in a theme?
$shortname = "nuod";
array( "name" => "Custom Logo URL",
"desc" => "Enter the link to your site's custom logo.",
"id" => $shortname."_logo",
"type" => "text",
"std" => ...
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is_home() returns false on the home page! When is the home page NOT the home page?
I've placed the following code in my functions.php file
if(!is_home()){ echo "Not Home";}
if(is_home()){ echo "Home";}
However, no matter what page I'm on, I get "Not Home", And I'm real sure I'm ...
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Integrating plugins in themes
I could not find a thread discussing this, so starting this one.
I am currently working on a rather elaborate theme for 3.1+, and by elaborate I mean that in addition to styling and regular front-end ...
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Seeking clarification on page request life-cycle
I'm just trying to get my head around the "life-cycle" of a typical page request in WordPress. The Action Reference page lists 38 actions that occur during a typical page load, but two things aren't ...
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Add a preview to a Wordpress Control Panel
I'm trying to create a new wordpress template and inside it I added a Control Panel, inside this control panel there is an option that allows user to choose where he want's to place a on a map, I try ...
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Can You Export Theme Settings From WordPress Multisite?
I do local WP development on a WordPress Multisite instance. What is the best way to move theme settings from there to the live instance? By theme settings I am talking about widgets and theme ...
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Easy WordPress theme creation tutorial?
I've been looking for a truly simple wordpress theme creation tutorial and haven't been able to find one. I'm specifically looking for something with sample code, a basic introduction to the syntax, ...
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What is the difference between strip_tags and wp_filter_nohtml_kses?
What is the difference between strip_tags and wp_filter_nohtml_kses. I tried to figure wp_filter_nohtml_kses from the source but it looks like it does something a bit more complex than strip all html ...
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Run shortcode before filters
My users post snippets code in comments.
I created a shortcode for this :
function post_codigo($atts,$content=""){
return '<code>'.$content.'</code>';
}
...
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How to get Images included in Post
is possible to get images added to a post programmatically? I am working on custom template (my first) and I need to display Images added to a post in specific way.(first image as title image and the ...
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Form to Add Posts to Custom Post Type
Basically I want to display a form on my blog (on a certain page) that will allow anyone to fill it out and it will create a post in a custom post type.
I saw the answer once before but I can't find ...
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How do I add settings to the Background Options Page?
I am developing a theme and I wanted to add some extra content to the built in background options page. I know how to use the settings API to create new theme options and settings but I can't seem to ...
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Is it feasible to build and update a Wordpress website offline?
It appears that Wordpress is designed to have websites constructed and maintained online - in the live website. I see some posts here that indicate some people are doing such development offline - in ...
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wp_remote_get doesn't work with secure connections https?
I'm querying the twitter api when I use non secure connection http:// it works fine no wp_error (but twitter exceed limit error) but when I use https:// it works in my browser I can see the json and ...
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Active theme responds to theme change request to alert user
I'm trying to intercept the install themes routine in order to alert the user from the active theme. I'm cobbling together a crude javascript alert below. What are some other options?
if ( ...
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How to force Media manager to overwrite files of same name?
I have a widget that works with my theme that expects images named in a certain way, slide1.png, slide2.png, etc...
However, when the user uploads their own images, named slide1.png, slide2.png, etc ...
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How to add Color Picker in Theme Options for the following?
I have a landscaping09 theme.
This is what I want:
A theme options page with the following options:
->Theme color background change (with colorpicker) or url of the image
->General Navbar color ...
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Enqueue scripts inside a class
I have written a small class that will handle enqueues in my theme :
<?php
class Header {
public function init_hooks()
{
add_action('wp_print_scripts', ...
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Multiple Custom_Background, is it possible?
Is it possible to create multiple "custom background" administration pages? A site I'm doing now needs 2 different background in 2 different areas, I would really love giving my client the same ...
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Setting up partial Right-to-Left admin interface
I am building a custom theme WordPress instance, which needs to be Arabic at the public face and English on Admin site, but with RTL (flush right) in editing fields. My theme takes care of the public ...
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how to display full post with pagination on home page
I am using the 'Hatch' theme. I'm familiar with HTML/CSS but not with WordPress, first time working with this.
I have my homepage showing recent posts and that's good.
However, I want to make a ...
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How do I make my wordpress page more friendly for mobile viewers?
My basic question is How do I make my wordpress page more friendly for mobile viewers?
I have seen some answers such as wptouch, wordpress mobile pack, and mobilepress http ...
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Create “File-less” Page Template in Functions.php
(By "Page Template," I mean a theme file with the "Template Name" header that can be selected in the "Template" dropdown field on the page admin.)
In multiple instances, I've built page templates ...
