Body class cleaning

  • Obje

    (@harrow)


    3 years, 11 months ago

    Hi there,

    I’m looking for the best way to “clean” the body classes generated by WordPress by default, through functions.php. I’ve found an interesting way to do it here:

    https://github.com/billerickson/EA-Genesis-Child/blob/master/inc/wordpress-cleanup.php

    Getting the following classes :
    ‘singular’,
    ‘single’,
    ‘page’,
    ‘archive’,
    ‘admin-bar’,
    ‘full-width-content’,
    ‘content-sidebar’,
    ‘content’,
    is already nice but it’s a bit restrictive because I’d like to authorize classes like .page-*** dynamically for every new page created.

    Is using something like :
    $dynamic_pages = "page-". $dynamic_pages;
    is a good way to achieve it?

    Thanks by advance for your help !

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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    You seem to be contradicting yourself, as you want to clean the classes but then you want to add more?

    I do not see any benefit in removing any classes that WordPress adds, and the theme and plugins add the ones they need.
    If you have a use for an additional class, structure it the way you need. I would not use page- as a prefix, because it is already used by WordPress, and is specific to Pages.

    In my theme, I add a class to represent each post, by using its slug with a prefix of ‘name-‘ because that’s the variable name of the slug (post_name).
    My theme also provides a way to apply theme options per page, and I use the body classes to do this.

    Thread Starter Obje

    (@harrow)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    Hi Joy,

    Thank you for your reply.
    The only reason I do that is to keep my code as clear as possible.
    Having classes like :
    “home page-template-default page page-id-90 single-author singular not-logged-in weaver-desktop weaver-mobile-smart-stacked” doesn’t make any sens to me when “home” is the only class I need to target my homepage with css.

    So that’s why I’d like to delete all unusued classes, but when a new page is added by the administrator, keep the ability for WordPress to add dynamically page-slug-of-the-page .

    Joy

    (@joyously)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    But you don’t know if your theme or plugins are using those classes, which they might be, especially the ‘not-logged-in’ one. They certainly don’t hurt anything.
    I know for a fact that the Weaver theme uses the weaver classes, even in javascript.

    And like I said, page- is used by WP already, so that’s not a good choice for your new class.

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