Category: Wordpress

Why: custom Taxonomy doesn’t appear in the custom menu? Because: set he screen options for your client

TheSmithy

So you want to add your custom taxonomy to a menu. You probably have to alter your screen options to let the taxonomy appear in your ‘menus’ menu. However, these settings are user -specific. So if your client also should be able to change this menu, switch to your client’s profile and change the screen options accordingly. Or tell your client how it works…

WordPress Multilingual (WPML) – tips

TheSmithy

Just some short notes on using WPML in wordpress:

Translating theme strings

In the code use this for strings that should be translated (example is for ‘roots’  theme)

echo __('Instructors', 'roots')

Then in the WPML settings, got to the tab ‘Theme and plugins localization’

Scroll down and click ‘Scan the theme for Strings’

Then scroll slighlty up and click the button ‘View strings that need translation’

Add your translation(s) and save

WordPress with Isotopes

TheSmithy

I finally managed to get my WordPress theme (based on roots101) working with isotopes

I mainly followed this post: http://jasonskinner.me/2013/04/creating-a-filterable-wordpress-photo-gallery/

But there were some problems on the way:

– First of all, I stripped out the whole fancybox thing (references, lib and all)
– then I customized the php to find the terms for my custom taxonomy

– Important: I changed the code to use the term slug instead of the name!  The term with whitespace was causing lots of troubles.

– I also added a function that jshint didn’t recognize to .jshintrc

I think those were the main steps apart form configuration and styling of course

The WordPress Template Hierarchy

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http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

The General Idea

WordPress uses the Query String — information contained within each link on your web site — to decide which template or set of templates will be used to display the page.

To see the query string put this in your theme’s page template:

<?php
echo "<pre>"; print_r($wp_query->query_vars); echo "</pre>";
?>

WordPress matches every Query String to query types — i.e. it decides what type of page (a search page, a category page, the home page etc.) is being requested.

Templates are then chosen — and web page content is generated — in the order suggested by the WordPress Template hierarchy, depending upon what templates are available in a particular WordPress Theme. Read More

WordPress with GIT, WP-Skeleton and Roots 101

TheSmithy

Goals: – Keep a local WordPress  installation under version control (but ignore WordPress core files) – Use WP-Skeleton (wordpress core as submodule in separated folder, content and config files in root) – Use the starter theme Roots 101 – Deploy to a staging and production server (depending on the current Git branch?) – Keep uploads out of version control, sync them separately – Use a good DB migration strategy – If possible: automate repetitive tasks Read More