I have a user profile field which subscribes the user to forum posts by email. This adds the user’s email address to an array in wp-options. Naturally I want the user to be able to unsubscribe, in which case he would uncheck a checkbox. Here is how I am trying to do this: add_action( ‘personal_options_update’, … Read more
I want to prevent my frontpage to be deleted/moved to trash using this: add_action( ‘wp_trash_post’, ‘tcb_page_delete_check’ ); add_action( ‘before_delete_post’, ‘tcb_page_delete_check’ ); function tcb_page_delete_check( $post_id ){ $frontpage = get_option( ‘page_on_front’); $blogpage = get_option(‘page_for_posts’); if( $post_id === $frontpage || $post_id === $blogpage ) { wp_redirect(admin_url(‘edit.php?post_type=page’)); exit; } } The problem is that option(‘page_on_front’)’s ID get’s changed from … Read more
Hi I am working on a frontend admin where a user must be able to delete his account. current_user() is a custom made function of me that retrieves the user meta data. Does anyone know how I can make this work? echo ‘<a class=”remove” href=”‘ . get_permalink() . ‘?remove_account”>’ . __( ‘Click here to remove … Read more
So I was passing an array of objects through an action today, no biggy, and things were working fine. Until I was iterating over one of the arguments to a callback and started getting errors. The only difference was that the passed array to the do_action call only had a single object in it. Confused … Read more
I am customising a WordPress admin area and so far so good with a number of add_filter and add_action calls in my theme’s functions.php file. But I’m a bit worried because all this code will be executed on all pages, not just the admin area. I therefore went ahead with the below approach: if (is_admin()) … Read more
Whenever I update a user profile in the dashboard, the user nice-name gets changed in the database: Every time, a “-2” is added. I tried to reset the nicename (based loosely on this thread) by hooking into edit_user_profile_update and personal_options_update, but that seems to be to early, the value does not change: add_action( ‘personal_options_update’, ‘my_reset_nicename_function’ … Read more
I’m trying to customise my WooCommerce child theme with parent theme Storefront. The parent theme creates single product template (content-single.php) like this: /** * @hooked storefront_post_header – 10 * @hooked storefront_post_meta – 20 * @hooked storefront_post_content – 30 */ do_action( ‘storefront_single_post’ ); and these functions are hooked to build out the page (/inc/structure/hooks.php): add_action( ‘storefront_single_post’, … Read more
How can I execute DB queries when theme installs and delete those tables on theme uninstall? 2 Answers 2 Yes, you can accomplish it by WP default functionality. Let me explain it. 1. While switch theme: There is a switch_theme action that runs right after the theme is switched. switch_theme is triggered when the blog’s … Read more
got a question about allowing empty comments with worpdress v.4.4.1 to achieve this i use the action ‘pre_comment_on_post’. in WP 4.3.1 i could do this easily: if (isset($_POST[‘comment’]) && $_POST[‘comment’] == “”) { $_POST[‘comment’] = “dummy content”; } the dummy content would be filtered out later via another add_filter call … in wp 4.3.1 in … Read more
How to get Custom Post ID by adding code to child theme’s function. The following code works fine for the regular post, but can’t figure out for the custom post types. add_filter( ‘manage_posts_columns’, ‘revealid_add_id_column’, 5 ); add_action( ‘manage_posts_custom_column’, ‘revealid_id_column_content’, 5, 2 ); function revealid_add_id_column( $columns ) { $columns[‘revealid_id’] = ‘ID’; return $columns; } function revealid_id_column_content( … Read more