Questions tagged [theme-development]
Themes create the public (front-end) interface for a WordPress site.
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Disable front-page.php template
I use front-page.php on my template to display home page. But I want to disable if the user uses another page for the home page from settings. Is there a solution? When user select a page from ...
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Reason to add a name of the theme like ('menu-1' => __( 'Primary', 'twentynineteen' ),) in PHP?
Sorry for this novice question. I'd like to know why WordPress themes add their theme names many occasions in PHP files (e.g. where 'twentynineteen' is repeated below, this is from functions.php in ...
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How to Select post parent for CPT from another post type?
I'm developing a Sports website, covering cricket football, etc.
The goal is:
.pk /cricket (Landing page)
.pk /cricket/ipl (IPL Landing Page)
.pk /cricket/ipl/year (IPL Landing Page by ...
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How to properly add and access a JavaScript file in Wordpress?
I intend to use a JavaScript library on my WP website and have uploaded the JS file via FTP to the following directory belonging to the currently activated theme Salient: /public_html/wp-content/...
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Bootstrap isn't called into my Wordpress theme
I keep getting an error when I look into my page resource about my bootstrap.min.css file, which gives me a "Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)" => http://...
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REQUIRED: The theme uses the register_post_type() function, which is plugin-territory
I am developing a car rental theme, but I encountered a big problem, when I upload the theme I get the "REQUIRED: The theme uses the register_post_type() function, which is plugin-territory" the ...
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Theme's Java Script not updating
I' am trying to modify themes Java Script using Theme Editor. But when I click save, nothing happens on my page. I use WP super cache to clear my cache but it doesn't change a thing.
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More HTML elements variety in visual editor
Our HTML based website uses a lot of formats for styling text / pages.
We're now transitioning to Wordpress so the our employees can also create and edit pages, but it seems like the Wordpress editor ...
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Redux Setting on custom created admin page
I am using Redux Framework and I am creating a theme and I want all my theme option on my custom created page Like this
but by default Redux Created a different page like this
I am using this ...
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Is it possible to remove original src from wp_calculate_image_srcset() results?
Was just wondering how one could load a custom srcset stack. I know the srcset loads all registered sizes so I'm good on that side but I cannot find a way to remove the original src from there without ...
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Upgrade from 5.0.4 to 5.1.1 causes $theme to be null
When we upgrade from 5.0.4 to 5.1.1 the site stops loading.
The error message is
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function images_path() on null
/wp-content/themes/mytheme/header.php ...
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Why would you when building a theme want to recompile scss after wp-customizer changes?
I was told that when saving changes in wp-customizer in WordPress, it'll automatically update the CSS generated. I believed it was best to recompile SASS (using SCSS/PHP library) then compile CSS.
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Integrating e-commerce solution to my own developed theme
So I have developed my very own theme in WordPress for the first time. It was not really that hard until my customer wanted to add an e-commerce solution integrated on the site. The goal is to make a ...
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Data Validation & Sanitization for Big HTML Blocks
I'm developing a theme for Envato. Got Soft Reject because of issue typed in the question title. I created a 4 column widget area for my theme's footer. How can I sanitize the $output variable?
Thank ...
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Wpautop in wp_editor not working
I recently added a custom meta box with Tinymce support. I wanted to output the data as html. If I code p tags manually inside Tinymce it works. But if I switch to Visual mode, the p tags aren't ...
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wp_editor() usage in custom meta box
i am building a custom meta box having a classic editor input rather than just input. The reason for using wp_editor is that I wanted to add paragraphs of text inside div but the simple input escaped ...
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Why does admin-ajax load slow and what are ways to speed it up?
I am developping a theme for wordpress which uses woocommerce. Currently I have developed a new page where I show the products. Initially I did the page and the filters for categories without using ...
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How can I not disable my theme when I want to upload a new version of it?
I am creating my own theme but I frequently make changes. When I try to upload a new version of the theme it sometimes ignores the changes or I sometimes get two themes or on the file system the theme ...
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Collapsible menu on post sidebar only expands and does not collapse
I'm working to improve an existing wordpress theme that was built for my organization. I've run into a problem that I'm not familiar with: the archive menu displayed on each post will only expand, but ...
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Three-tier menu? [closed]
The drop down menu in my theme is created with css and java in the style sheet. However I need it to be a three tier menu and am unable to get the coding right to make it appear to the side. Currently ...
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WP_QUERY wrong ammount of posts
I have 16 published posts of type "portfolio".
With the query below, "found_posts" is 16. Correct so far.
I've set "posts_per_page" to -1 to see all of them. But only 8 of them get rendered. The ...
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I have Wordpress setup on primary domain, how do I set it up on its subdomain using the same database?
I have a site www.domain.com with Wordpress installed. I need to create a subdomain for testing a new theme and have it linked to the main site's database. I have manually added the Wordpress files ...
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Default Permalink Type to Postname
I need my theme to default Permalink Type to Postname. Upon activation, my theme is executing the following code:
//change permalinks to /%postname%/
global $wp_rewrite;
//Write the rule
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How can I use $wp_query->tax_query as tax_query parameter for a new WP_Query instatiation?
I am trying to use $wp_query->tax_query right out of the box as tax_query parameter, however I cannot work this out. The parameters for my new WP_Query is actually the same as the default query of the ...
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Custom form in theme template displaying internal server error upon submission
I have a custom form in WordPress theme template but it is displaying internal server error upon submission. There is no error in error.log file regarding this submission. I am hosting my website on ...
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Bootstrap 4 mobile menu not working for Wordpress Development
I have a custom bootstrap 4 theme I am building out in wordpress. The drop down mobile menu does not work when the hamburger menu is pressed at smaller viewports. I am not sure if I need to add a ...
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get_search_query() not working with search queries with ampersand in it
I am using plain simple code to make a search page
$argscontactdirectory = array(
"s" => get_search_query(),
'post_type' => array( 'expertarticle'),
'orderby'...
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Use custom field content in menu-item
I'm making a mega-menu with some menu-items that can have a more rich content (from a wysiwyg editor using ACF custom fields).
So, i have set an ACF field group to work with menu items, i need that ...
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Woocommerce singe product custom gallery output works just on the first slide
I copied the "product-image.php" to my theme folder in order to change the HTML output a bit, so instead of using wc_get_gallery_image_html I created my function and changed the output there.
Here's ...
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Highlight “Show all” item in wp_list_categories
I use wp_list_categories to display category filters on post archives.
I can use current_category param to set current category - and such item will get addition class current-cat. I can even omit ...
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Theme development - Automatically menu creation
I've been working for a couple of days with automatic creation of menu upon theme activation in wordpress. I've achieved the creation of menu and it's working as expected, except i want to add sub ...
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How to show metabox on page if it is using a template
I was creating metaboxes for a special kind of pages. But i got stuck when showing metaboxes to the pages only who currently have the template 'Sky'.
my template file name is sky-template.php and ...
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Mix it up & Wordpress
I'm trying to create a MixItUp of articles. Those articles are in my category "Projet" which as 5 sub-categories. My problem is that I can't sort them
with my sub-cat controls. If someone can explain ...
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Displaying the right content on a page url
I created a WordPress theme with one page design format which means I wrote all the code in the main index.php file. Now I need to make a different page with separate URL but for some reason it still ...
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Replace Home with image link inside custom header menu
What I want to achieve is a header menu like this:
Right now, I have this:
I am not far off. To get to where I am currently at, I followed these instructions and added some custom CSS. So I added ...
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Is_single not working properly in genesis
I am currently creating a child theme for my website which uses Genesis as a parent theme. Now I am making single pages as per my choosing. So, I am removing the entry header from within HTML main and ...
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How to offset main query without affecting other queries and backend
I'm trying to offset my main blog query by 3 posts whilst trying to get the pagination to function correctly. I've been following the codex reference here but I'm struggling to get it working as I ...
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Multiple content areas with Gutenberg - Transparent areas mid content
I am trying to find a solution to a layout I have been tasked to build using 'Gutenberg' blocks. As far as I am aware there can only be one the_content(); per page.
The layout I am trying to achieve ...
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Fix hover images blink
I have this css script generated using php, it's used to show a wordpress second featured image when an user hover. The problem is that the images are blinking and I don't know how to solve this small ...
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Comment status shows 'closed' in db, but it shows 'open' when i echo it
Here is database ss. And comment_status is closed
But when i print it, it shows open
echo $post->comment_status;
Also, in page settings, comments checkbox is unchecked.
So, i can't hide ...
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Style Wp-admin similar to Frontend
I use a really modern and materialistic theme for my frontend, but the backend is not that good looking. My clients often visit backend and i want uniformity in styles and color scheme, like button ...
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How to unset a set query variable?
My theme file, multiple times over, passes sets a variable to a template part used in a subsequent template part file via set_query_var, like so...
set_query_var('feature_id', array(143866));
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Using a variable in is_page(array())
Similarly to this topic I need to extract some page IDs from user input (a theme options admin page), store them in a variable, and then filter using the is_page() filter. The input consists of ...
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Moved a website and excerpts don't work for old posts
I moved a WordPress website to a different host and all post excerpts stopped working in the blog list.
When I make a new post they appear fine but doesn't show for the old posts.
I peaked into the ...
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How to get full native language instead of iso?
I am not using WPML or Polylang, but multisite to create multiple languages. The code below is used to make a language switcher, but I want a second menu with the full language name for a different ...
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Proper, exhaustive documentation for wp.editor etc
There exist the following :
wp.editor.PanelColorSettings
wp.editor.InspectorControls
wp.editor.RichText
wp.editor.BlockControls
etc.
Where is the documentation that shows the full list of available '...
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Create custom role and capabilities to manage CPT
I have created a job offers plugin with two custom post types job_offer and job_application.
Now I'm trying to create a custom user role "HR Manager" with custom capabilities. This user role should ...
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I want to add plugin files in wordpress theme directory
I added a few lines code in plugin. I want to add that plugins file in wordpress theme to avoid to be overwritten when there is an update. How can I do this?
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How to show users with have role in separate menus in wordpress admin panel
In users menu Wordpress admin panel, for default shows all users with all roles in a menu.
I want to show users with have role in separate menus in wordpress admin panel.
For example each users have ...
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Multiple do_shortcode($content) within one shortcode
TLDR; How can I run a shortcode with multiple shortcodes inside of it?
I'm trying to run a shortcode with multiple shortcodes inside of it.
I can successfully run a shortcode with one shortcode ...
