I have a few years worth of experience building Child Themes in WordPress, which is generally my preferred route when developing a new website as I am not a theme developer per say. I am now doing a couple of projects which want to leverage the WP REST API, and I am looking to use … Read more
There seems to be so many options which one should i go for..it’s really confusing? I have used get_template_directory(). What i want is to use a function that works best with child theme and that should work alone if no child theme is used..pls help get_theme_file_uri() get_parent_theme_file_uri() get_theme_file_path() get_parent_theme_file_path() get_template_directory() TEMPLATEPATH 1 Answer 1 get_theme_file_uri(), … Read more
Hope someone can help, am looking for some suggestions on how to override/replace some functions that are loading in a parent theme and move them into the child theme so we can make alterations to the files themselves in the child theme. We will “duplicate” the structure and files into the child theme, but can’t … Read more
The HTML of a post type, I want to swap the position of the title and the thumbnail. I noticed that the title and thumbnail are inside a <header> tag. So I went looking which template file has this markup, applied to the post type ‘post’ So instead of this <header class=”entry-header ast-no-meta”> <div class=”post-thumb-img-content … Read more
I have a code I always used in my themes or child-themes. I’m doing right now a project with plugin-only as a solution, so I tried to copy paste some stuff from child-theme to plugin file, but I get error 500: Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function get_user_by() in (…) The same code … Read more
On Twenty Eleven or on its child themes the default template for new pages is a template with no sidebar. I don’t know why this is like this; it seems to me that the designers of WordPress are still not thinking about CMS functionality in some places. For example the most obvious place to put … Read more
I have a child theme in wordpress and one of the plugins I am using is called jigoshop. I made a copy of a few php classes from the plugin and placed them in my child theme folder. I want these clases to override the ones from the plugin folder. How would I go about … Read more
I am using the theme twentyten as a parent theme for my child theme. I have other stylesheets I want to use and so I’m trying to figure out how to wp_deregister_style for the style.css sheet that is printed out in the head section of the html. I have checked the global $wp_styles variable around … Read more
I’m trying to customize the Home Page of a Responsive Theme template. I had started with the Responsive theme and then found out that I had to do customizations on a child theme, so I downloaded the Responsive Child Theme from themeid.com and uploaded it to my website. When I first went to Dashboard > … Read more
The theme I’m using includes a slideshow that generates an additional 4 image sizes for every image that is uploaded. I don’t need to have all those images being generated for every image. Is there a way to remove the slideshow thumbnail sizes for a custom post type in my child theme? Thanks 2 Answers … Read more
