I am customising someone else’s theme to allow the website owner to edit more regions than she could previously. I copied the theme into a new folder, with a different folder name to the original. I edited style.css, and replaced the theme information with: /* Theme Name: Customisable SuperBaby & Ted Author: Steve Doig Author … Read more
I made a custom WordPress theme from scratch for a client, then zipped it up and sent it to them. They installed the theme fine, but for some reason the theme editor does not display. What I mean is there is no link to “Editor” under appearance anymore. Does anyone know why this would happen? … Read more
This may seem like a stupid question, and it probably isn’t possible, but is it possible for me to set a static home page (using front-page.php) and a blog page (using home.php, I think) in my theme, and have the blog page appear on a separate slug WITHOUT changing the page settings in my WordPress … Read more
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I know there are security issues with symlinks but this is for development purposes on my local machine only. I am trying to set up my wordpress development server. My workflow results in a ‘build’ directory with the wordpress theme and I want to symlink that directory to my wordpress installation (which uses a non-standard … Read more
Recent WordPress install, default theme. There are three colors which can be customized from the admin gui, but there are at least three other colors visible on the website which can’t be customized from there: Posts/pages background text colors in posts/pages text and background color in the search field I assume it is possible to … Read more
Tried to find an or some hook to fire a function when theme is being delited, but didn’t find any hook.. May be someone can tell if there’s a way to fire my function on themes delete event? I need it to delete options and drop tables on theme delete. ( for example ) Plugins … Read more
Is possible to exclude some files from being viewed and modified in the theme editor? 1 Answer 1 In general I wouldn’t recommend editing files that way and just disable it with the well known DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT or DISALLOW_FILE_MODS constants, that are checked within the map_meta_cap() function. But anyway it’s interesting to see if we can … Read more
I have two copies of a theme I’m developing up on my site (one was the existing file structure when I got started; the other is now set up to update automatically via git for a more sane development cycle). When I switch between themes, I lose customizations I’d done on the site (menu, logo, … Read more
I have WordPress 4.4 installed localy on wamp server 2.5 x64 on Windows 10 and noticed that: get_template_directory(); returns this: ‘C:\wamp\www\my-site//content/themes/my-theme’ Questions What’s the reason for those two sequential slashes, if this is not a bug? Why WordPress does not handle DS correctly (regarding slashes and backslashes)? is this something up to the web server … Read more
