I’ve found that is_front_page appears to return true when I’m viewing the home page and have a single sticky post assigned there. It also returns true when I’ve assigned a page as the static front page via Settings > Reading. Why would I ever want to use is_home()? is_front_page() returns true if the user is … Read more
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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
Customer asks if a specific carousel plugin he uses can be widgetized. That means I should create a widget inside functions.php which calls the plugin’s function. That means that the plugin’s code has to be loaded first so that the function be available to WordPress when the functions.php file is loaded, right? Would that work? … 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
Normal WordPress Menu looks like: Home | Blog | About us | Contact But I’ve seen many pages with descriptions under these links: Home Page | Our Blogs | About us | Contact ….meet us…| read more| basic info| contact form How to achieve this? (I want it to be core function for all my … Read more
