I'm having a little trouble deciding how I should be implementing hooks in wordpress.
I'm currently using a child theme and in the single.php file of the parent theme there is a function <?php con_get_sharebox(); ?> that gets the contents of a file sharebox.php.
Now the sharebox.php file is the file I'd like to edit but I don't know how to do this using hooks.
I tried simply adding a different sharebox.php to my child theme but because its not part of the standard theme files I don't think it gets loaded.
Any ideas on what I can do?
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I'm trying to have a pagination on my custom Products page that is not the default one in Woocommerce.
I used Elementor to customize this page and after some research I saw that I could call a function that is already integrated in WordPress using the < paginate_links > function.
The only problem is that I have no idea where to call this function in order to have a pagination on my product page.
To be more precise, i would like to know where exactly i have to change or add my php functions, and what code should i use to get my pagination.
Normally it is in the archive.php or a version of that file name specific to your post-type. But before you go and change it, create a child theme in case you haven't done that already. In the child theme folder, you then duplicate the archive.php or similar to make it overwrite the one from the parent theme. This way you keep your version of the theme clean and updatable without losing any changes.
(For creating a child-theme you will need to create at least a style.css [with a WordPress-specific comment, you can google] and a functions.php-file that needs a bit of php-code to enqueue the child-themes scripts and styles. The code for the functions.php can also be found by a quick google search. You then just place the style.css and the functions.php into a new folder you name in the pattern [foldername of your themes name]-child. You then place this folder next to the parent-themes folder in the "/wp-content/themes/"-directory.)
And here you go for the pagination: https://codex.wordpress.org/Pagination
So i made a slideshow using HTML, CSS and JS.
It's for a personal blog i'm creating, so i would like to add the slideshow into a Wordpress theme that i purchased.
I created a child theme and tried to edit the function.php file and the style.css, and although i know some PHP it's really hard to understand how the code works and where to add mine.
Basically i want to display my slideshow initially, and then the rest of the Wordpress theme with all the posts and such.
Is it possible or should i only work with the customization options of the theme, although they're limited?
Since you've gone with a child theme, may I suggest copying a page template from the parent into your child theme?
Then you can copy your code for the slideshow via the editor into your child theme's copy of page template and use said template throughout your website for whatever page you'd like without colliding with parent theme updates.
Here's a relatively simple tutorial for creating a page template:
https://www.cssigniter.com/add-custom-page-template-using-child-theme/
Im using tyche theme for e-commerce.i have created template files for pages.like profile creating page.
Template file:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Create Profile
*/
when i assign this template for a wordpress page.Its working fine. but two or three days later that template files are missing from my theme folder. What i have to do Now. Please help me.
Thanks...
This is because when theme get updated all custom codes created by user, which resides in template folder, get replaced. So it is better to create a child theme and use it.
If you modify a theme directly and it is updated, then your
modifications may be lost. By using a child theme you will ensure that
your modifications are preserved
More here
I have a search form that is fetching some data from a database and then showing the data on a page on my website , I want to add this form to my Wordpress website , Not the wordpress search form , But the form I created .
What is the best way to include this search form and the PHP script ? Should I insert the html code directly to the header.php file that its action would be the PHP file that contains my script ? Or there is another better way?
I have the html code in an html file , and the PHP script , and Css file, What is the best way to include them to my wordpress website?
You can add it to your header file but you would lose those changes when you updated your theme.
The correct thing to do is to create a child theme, copy the header.php file from the parent theme to the child theme and change it there. There are a few of plugins that you can use to create child themes.
You should also add your css file to the child theme and enqueue that in the functions.php file in your child theme.
When you make the child theme the websites theme, Wordpress will use all of the templates in the main theme except for the header.php file.
Smashing pumpkins has a good tutorial.
Hi I'm new to wordpress I have been working on a theme I would like to have the original category.php file that needs to get added on the theme? I have tried to copy a category.php file from a theme that was created on the core of wordpress but the body is missing, where can I find the original category.php file template that will be used by wordpress when it is not being defined on my theme?
version: wordpress 3.5.1
As templates are going to have theme specific markup, you'll need to make revisions to any file that you plan on copying over if you want the page to work with your theme.
A simpler solution is to copy your page.php file and replace your post loop with that of the categories loop. This will allow you to easily maintain your site's design without having to rework any markup and can be accomplished pretty quickly by copy/pasting a category loop snippet.
A great starting place to see how these loops are structured is the WP twentytwelve theme found here: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/twentytwelve
Much greater documentation can also be found in the codex here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates
Template files are stored in:
/wp-content/themes/<theme_name>/
You can copy the category template from a theme, but then it wouldn't look like it's a part of your theme though and might be badly styled because of missing CSS rules.