I just had a look at Global variables in WP and I discovered that a lot has changed since the last time I looked. $current_user is no longer listed. Does that mean this and many other (old) globals will be “phased out” from future WP versions? 2 Answers 2 The $current_user is still a valid … Read more
Inside of my loop in single.php, I used a custom query using get_posts to return posts belonging to a certain category. <?php global $post; $paged = get_query_var( ‘paged’ ) ? get_query_var( ‘paged’ ) : 1; $myposts = get_posts(“paged=$paged&category=5”);?> <?php foreach($myposts as $post) :?> <?php the_title();?> <?php endforeach; ?> The problem is that the original loop, … Read more
Setting up a WP multisite instance – the client has an existing ontology / set of categories that they want to classify all content across the set of blogs. Also the desire is that any new categories would be added at the ‘network blog’ level and synced to the other blogs. What’s the best way … Read more
I am trying to check for a php variable in each of my template in order to assign it a different styling but the value seems to disappear, can you please help, I already spent hours trying to figure this out. I know there is something small I’m missing. So here is everything: I have … Read more
Bear with me a moment as I am still relatively new to WP dev. I am currently building a custom site that loads certain blocks on pages using get_template_part(); . So for example, the home page will have it’s own relevant content but will also include generic content (subscribe, contact, awards…). I do not want … Read more
I wrote a widget but I need to use the variables from one widget in another…both widgets are in the same dynamic sidebar. This is what I am trying to do: I wrote a widget that adds a footer to the bottom of an image slider widget. When I add the footer widget under the … Read more
I have a museum client with a multisite setup with pages that detail the exhibits in their facility. They recently added tablets throughout the museum and want their tablets to display only their exhibits (no other extraneous pages from the main site) for visitors to use while in venue. I thought the solution would be … Read more
got a question about allowing empty comments with worpdress v.4.4.1 to achieve this i use the action ‘pre_comment_on_post’. in WP 4.3.1 i could do this easily: if (isset($_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
I was being creative and put this in one of the files loaded with my plugin. Are there implications with storing the table names this way? global $wpdb; if(!defined(‘DB_ARTISTS’)) define(‘DB_ARTISTS’, $wpdb->prefix . “artists”); if(!defined(‘DB_RELEASES’)) define(‘DB_RELEASES’, $wpdb->prefix . “releases”); EDIT: I had originally not included all of the information I had meant to. Tables and variables … Read more
Is there a way to take the global $wp_meta_boxes variable to be used in the front-end? Currently the $wp_meta_boxes is accessible on specific admin pages only. I’ve found a similar question about this. Its solution is to get the data via the do_meta_boxes hook, but I would like to access the variable without JS/AJAX, and … Read more