I’ve added a new page under “Pages” in the wordpress admin, and added several custom fields. I’d also like to be able to add an upload image field to the page editor – is there some way to do this via custom-fields? Or is there a different direction I need to take if I need … Read more
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Link your WPSE-Plugins If you answered a question and made a plugin out of your code, than this is your place to share it. The Idea: An old comment from @MikeSchinkel during the beta phase where he wrote something like “I wonder how many plugins will come out of WA”. “Rules” Write a short – … Read more
My problem is when on the main plugin file I include a PHP file something like this: include(WP_PLUGIN_URL . ‘/wordpress-group-buying/ipn/paypal-ipn.php’); // or include_once(WP_PLUGIN_URL . ‘/wordpress-group-buying/ipn/paypal-ipn.php’); // or require(WP_PLUGIN_URL . ‘/wordpress-group-buying/ipn/paypal-ipn.php’); // or require_once(WP_PLUGIN_URL . ‘/wordpress-group-buying/ipn/paypal-ipn.php’); and on that file I have a call to a WordPress function like: add_action(‘hook’, ‘callback’); and I get: Fatal Error: … Read more
Has anyone used autoloading and/or PHP namespaces within a plugin or theme? Thoughts on using them? Any harm? Pitfalls? Note: namespaces are PHP 5.3+ only. Assume, for this question, that you know you’ll be dealing with servers that you know have PHP 5.3 or greater. Okay, I’ve had two big projects where I’ve been in … Read more
Is there an easy to understand scheme to decide what kind of code belongs to a plugin or the theme’s functions.php? There are many cases and many debates about that topic, mostly because there are some misconceptions about the inner workings of WordPress. I am asking for an answer based on facts, not on opinions. … Read more
I’ve created a plugin, and of course being me, I wanted to go with a nice OO approach. Now what I’ve been doing is to create this class and then just below create an instance of this class: class ClassName { public function __construct(){ } } $class_instance = new ClassName(); I’m assuming there is a … Read more
I’m making a WordPress plugin. What are typical things I should include in the uninstall feature? For example, should I delete any tables I created in the install function? Do I clean up my option entries? Anything else? There are three different hooks. They trigger in the following cases: Uninstall Deactivation Activation How-to trigger functions … Read more
The add_menu_page documentation says to pass the menu title as the second parameter: add_menu_page(‘Page Title’, ‘Menu Title’, …); When adding more pages later via add_submenu_page, the main page becomes the first entry in the submenu: However, I want the first item in the list to have a different name (but still point to the same … Read more
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