In twenty fourteen theme, we’d like to know how to change the features content tag. Currently it’s set as featured. Now, we would like to know how to code this for different page templates. We notice in page.php there is a piece of code calling the template part featured-content. <?php if ( is_front_page() && twentyfourteen_has_featured_posts() … Read more
This question looks embarrassingly simple, but I haven’t been able to find an answer. What is the PHP equivalent to the following C# line of code? string str = “\u1000″; This sample creates a string with a single Unicode character whose “Unicode numeric value” is 1000 in hexadecimal (4096 in decimal). That is, in PHP, … Read more
Hi I want to display a specific category from a custom query in WordPress. My code works fine and it gets the latest 4 posts, but what I want now is to retrieve a specific category. My code is below thanks : global $wpdb; $posts = $wpdb->get_results(‘SELECT ID, post_title AS title, post_excerpt AS excerpt FROM … Read more
I need to loop lot of arrays in different ways and display it in a page. The arrays are generated by a module class. I know that its better not to include functions on ‘views’ and I want to know where to insert the functions file. I know I can ‘extend’ the helpers, but I … Read more
I keep getting the following warnings in my debug log: PHP Warning: mysqli_real_connect(): The server requested authentication method unknown to the client [mysql_old_password] in /wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1379 PHP Warning: mysqli_real_connect(): (HY000/2054): The server requested authentication method unknown to the client in /wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1379 PHP Deprecated: mysql_connect(): The mysql extension is deprecated and … Read more
I’m trying to get a shortcode function (newStuff) to display inside of another function (oldStuff), but I’m running into trouble. Both shortCode functions are listed below, as well as what I’ve tried. Can someone please help me get the “newStuff” function displaying inside of the “oldStuff” function? Thanks! Current Functions function newStuff(){ return ‘ only … Read more
how do you create a 1+1 php counter inside the update_post_meta? this is the code i have so far: $count = 1; update_post_meta($bid_id, ‘draftnumber’, $count++); but the counter is not moving, so i tried another one: $counting = $counting + 1; update_post_meta($bid_id, ‘draftnumber’, $counting); but it’s not working, am i not allowed to use $count++ … Read more
I’m a bit puzzled when I after some time did another WordPress install. I’m using a standard Apache + PHP 7 combination (even under version control) and after checking out 4.6.1 of WordPress (the tagged version from the Github SVN mirror, the official Git-ified version) the installer greets me in the second step with the … Read more
I am considering installing suhosin on my web server in order to disable the eval function. Before i go to the effort, does wordpress use this function? I know there may be some plugins that use it and ill deal with that separately. For now i want to be sure that the core of wordpress … Read more
I’ve started my first plugin and I need to store values returned from an API call to a database. But before I do that, I need to be able to make a database table. I have the following code in a file that is required of the main plugin file: register_activation_hook(__FILE__, ‘PLUGIN_activation’); function PLUGIN_activation() { … Read more
