I just stumbled over a global variable called $content_width. It was new to me, so far I could see that it’s used in themes, both the standard twenty ten one and third party ones. It looks like that it contains the width of the content area in pixels. Since global variables are not documented in … Read more
Why? Sometimes an easy fix to altering the behavior of WordPress itself or a plugin could be to alter the files of the plugin or WordPress directly. When coming up with such an idea, the usual response is: Don’t hack core. Why is it generally a bad idea to change core files? Consider? Sometimes, however, … Read more
What’s the difference between get_home_path() and ABSPATH? Isn’t the point of both to point to the WordPress install root? 2 They should do the same thing, but under certain conditions, may not. First of all note: that the codex entry description is misleading that wp-admin/includes/file.php must be included in context else calling get_home_path() will lead … Read more
I was reading over some best practices from 10up and they mention setting these two flags to false in a WP_Query ( depending on what you’re querying ): ‘update_post_meta_cache’ => false: useful when post meta will not be utilized. ‘update_post_term_cache’ => false: useful when taxonomy terms will not be utilized. I am assuming it utilizing … Read more
