quick newbie question but the answer is nowhere to be found! I am building my site from the ground up on WordPress with Genesis and a child theme (Minimum Pro). I am interested in implementing the Bulma CSS Framework for its ease of use. I would like to do this as efficiently as possible in … Read more
If I were to load a custom library into wordpress, what would be the best place to add it? Since there are a bunch of global vars defined at the top of the library, I would not want that to be done thru a hook where I’m forced to use a wrapper function whereby my … Read more
I understand how parent and child themes work. But my question is how do frameworks fit into it? Are they just technically parent themes you create different child themes from? 1 Answer 1 You’re absolutely right. Frameworks like Thesis, Genesis, and Ultimatum (among others) are essentially barebones themes that allow for modular customization with child … Read more
im trying to understand how Action Hooks and Filters work and have this example i want to edit This function is in a parent theme framework php file: public function formatArticleCat01( $show_category = false, $shorten_text_chars = 300, $show_date = true, $show_comments = false, $show_author = false, $show_views = false ) { $sFigure = ( $this->article_thumb … Read more
I am exploring a couple options frameworks for wordpress like the Redux Framework. As a non-developer interested in maintaining my own WordPress based web app, when would an options framework like Redux be useful? Most sites for options framework market their tool to the wordpress developer community. I have not found a simple explanation geared … Read more
I’m currently developing a complex Theme (or framework, if it can be called that) for my own personal use. However, in the event that it becomes appreciated to the public – does it necessarily HAVE to be inheritable (the ability to have Child Themes derive from it)? Am I right in guessing that there is … Read more
I am going design a site and I though about using wordpress for it as the clients want to be able to edit the content and they are not very up to date with the latest technologies, so I though that as wordpress backend editor is quite simple and straight forward, this could be a … Read more
I’m quite familiar with WordPress, but have just minimal experience with PHP frameworks such as Codeigniter. When building a custom application, say for example an invoicing system or time management app for my company, does it make sense to use WordPress as a framework, or would it be more advisable to use something like Codeigniter? … Read more
I’m trying to get up to speed with responsive theme development in WordPress and have been looking at Bootstrap and combining it with HTML5 boilerplate. I came across this skeleton framework which combines both of them: http://www.rootstheme.com/ However, it sets up the uploads folder to be /assets/ in the root of my site. Is there … Read more
So I know that setting up custom post types ranges from just registering them to adding custom permalinks, custom sorting, customizing columns in the admin, etc. I was wondering if anyone had a template or framework that they use regularly to set up custom post types in projects? Do you start from scratch every time … Read more
