When you’re writing a Child Theme you can easily add your own functions to a custom functions.php file. But sometimes you want to replace or remove a function that the original theme provides. Because the Child Theme’s functions.php file is loaded BEFORE the parent’s file, you can’t just define the same function again because it would be … Read more
To get the directory of the current theme (or child theme) you can use get_stylesheet_directory_uri(). Here’s how to use it. Let’s assume that your WordPress installation lives in http://demo.com, and that your theme is located in a folder named “my-super-theme”. We can assume then that the full URL that points at http://demo.com/wp-content/themes/my-super-theme/ The URL will … Read more
I tested one of my plugins yesterday and was shocked to see a nasty error message: What was going on? I could have sworn this worked fine last time I tried! Then I remembered that I changed my PHP Version in MAMP, from 5.5.3 back to 5.2.17. And exactly therein lies the problem, because the … Read more
The admin footer bar is the one line of text displayed at the very bottom of your admin interface. By default it reads “Thank you for creating with WordPress” on the left, and shows the current WordPress version on the right. You can however change this if you like. Perhaps you want to provide additional … Read more
To get a reference to a specific admin page (such as Dashboard), we can use the admin_url(), network_admin_url() or get_admin_url() functions, like so: get_admin_url( ‘index.php’ ); You will need to pass the reference to the page you’d like to display. To find out how, simply click on the menu page in question, then look at … Read more
A bit related to my previous post about using jQuery UI elements in the WordPress admin interface, it’s likely that at some point you want to load your own CSS styles to your plugin or theme’s admin pages. Lucky for us that’s a lot easier that loading JavaScript! Here’s how – works without adding an … Read more
One thing I’ve been struggling with was to use jQuery UI elements in my plugins, for example jQuery UI Tabs. Even though the libraries are included with WordPress, I couldn’t get them to work. Thanks to Pippin’s Plugins I could figure it out – thanks, Pippin! My initial mistake was the way I created the … Read more
This is surprisingly easy thanks to a function called remove_menu_page(); To remove the Dashboard item for example, you can use the function like this: // remove Dashboard remove_menu_page(‘index.php’); The parameter is the filename of the item you’d like to hide. To find out what that is, simply hover over the menu options in the admin … Read more
