ClassicPress News: Tutorials

Here’s a quick tip for ClassicPress theme developers. If you want to remove all trace of the WordPress/ClassicPress built-in emoji scripts, styles and tags from your ClassicPress site’s pages, here is the code that you need to add to your theme’s functions.php file: remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘print_emoji_detection_script’, 7); remove_action(‘admin_print_scripts’, ‘print_emoji_detection_script’); remove_action(‘wp_print_styles’, ‘print_emoji_styles’); remove_action(‘admin_print_styles’, ‘print_emoji_styles’); add_filter(’emoji_svg_url’, ‘__return_false’); This […]

Internationalization, or i18n as it’s often abbreviated, is an important part of many projects. That is why we want to highlight a course made by Ian Grieve of azurecurve. In this course Ian will take you through the process of translating plugins (and themes) step by step. Ian introduces his new series as follows: “I […]

Resolving Plugin Conflicts the Proper Way A common recommendation in the WordPress world when you’re having issues with a plugin is to disable all plugins. Don’t do it! While we can employ best practices in our own code, we have no control over what other developers are doing. As a result, plugin conflicts will sometimes […]

All about the wp-config file If you use an installer you might have never actually looked into the wp-config file. Many people will tell you that it is probably one of the more important files in your ClassicPress installation to understand. This is because there are so many things that it can do to cause […]

A static dashboard widget is a great way to share information, important links, or action items with your clients when you hand-off a site. Very little code – very high user impact! When handing off a ClassicPress website to a client, do you provide them with information or links to get them off to a […]

A beginner’s guide to converting procedural PHP into namespaced or object-oriented PHP – with a very understandable apples-to-apples comparison! This will be a primer for a more in-depth article on using namespacing in ClassicPress plugins.

When performing changes to your theme, like changing up the template; adding functionality; or adding CSS, it is often advised to use a child theme. But how do you make a child theme? What even is a child theme? Why do you need this? All questions that people new to this level of ClassicPress will come up against.