Digital Raindrops

Only the ones you adjusted, WordPress will look in the child theme first for the layout files then fall back to the parent theme.

If we are changing index.php then we would copy the file from the parent theme to the child and make our changes in the copy.

Any additional functional code in functions.php can be moved to the child themes function.php, but the function name must not exist in both unless the function is pluggable, then the child fumction will be used.

Please mark this topic as resolved once you have fixed the issue.

HTH

David

Would it no be as easy just to test the metadata, instead of using a function?

By looking at the call it is already inside the loop, so this would be quicker and less code than using another function!

<?php
if( get_post_meta( the_ID(), 'video', true ) ) {
	echo get_post_meta( the_ID(), 'video', true );
} else {
    if( has_post_thumbnail() ) the_post_thumbnail('100%-thumb');
 }
?>

HTH

David

It is a matter of assesing what is right for your client.

Lets say you take a nice theme “has most of what we need” and it has a vulnerability down the line, lets take the recent 2011 tim thumb vulnerability, many theme and plugin authors copied the tim thumb code to their files, over a period of time before the hackers found the exploit.

If you are using a child theme it is easy to replace or update the parent theme, most times without the child theme being affected, this is also true for deprecated code calls, if the theme author updates the parent then it is easy to deal with!

The other way you copy the theme re-name it, change the code and styles for your client, the original theme you used gets updated but your theme does not and is then open to an attack?

If you are not maintaining the content, you should still be in the loop for updating the theme, looking at any updates and how they affect the theme, at the end of the day it is your reputation as well, “that theme they done only worked for a while, then it stopped, not using them again, had to get another theme”

If it is a paid theme who will get any update notice?

All you can do is educate the person that is maintaining the site what to do, as WordPress is never finished and is always evolving, so what works today may not in a couple of years!

HTH

David

I keep getting this error SOMETIMES… when you reload the page a few times

I tried several page loads in quick time and did not get any error, the pages load fast so it is not timing, are you logged in as admin when it happens or as a visitor.

The error is generated by the function get_file_data, reading the comments it is likely a plugin that is causing it.

/**
 * Retrieve metadata from a file.
 *
 * Searches for metadata in the first 8kiB of a file, such as a plugin or theme.

Something is passing in an empty filename as these are the lines, it is trying to open and close an empty file

// We don't need to write to the file, so just open for reading.
	$fp = fopen( $file, 'r' );

	// Pull only the first 8kiB of the file in.
	$file_data = fread( $fp, 8192 );

	// PHP will close file handle, but we are good citizens.
	fclose( $fp );

HTH

David

Hi try a compare using date and strtotime() php functions!

Use strtotime(‘ ‘) or strtotime(‘now’) for today!

ALL UNTESTED
Outside the loop single.php:

<?php global $post; ?>
<?php //Get only the day and not the time ?>
<?php $today = date('Y-m-d', strtotime(' ') ); ?>
<?php $when = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($post->post_date); ?>

<?php if ( $when != $today ): ?>
   <div class="home-dates"><?php the_date('M j, o') ?></div>
<?php endif; ?>

Inside the Loop:

<?php if ( the_date('Y-m-d') != date('Y-m-d', strtotime(' ') ): ?>
   <div class="home-dates"><?php the_date('M j, o') ?></div>
<?php endif; ?>

Different output for tody’s posts Breaking News!

<?php if ( the_date('Y-m-d') == date('Y-m-d', strtotime(' ') ): ?>
   <h3>Breaking News!</h3>
<?php else: ?>
   <div class="home-dates"><?php the_date('M j, o') ?></div>
<?php endif; ?>

HTH

David

Use the <!–nextpage–> tag in the HTML view!

type <!–nextpage–> (you need to use the html-mode of the editor to do so).

So in the [ HTML ] view you would have:

<!--nextpage-->
<h2>Ingredients</h2>

Or add section links in the page

<a href="#ingredients">Go to Ingredients</a>

Link in the page!

<h2 id="ingredients">Ingredients</h2>

On YouTube

HTH

David

We had this same question last week, a script to use the left and right keys to navigate pages.

This was the solution, it will depend on what you are trying to do, and if there are no clashes with existing scripts.

WordPress does not like the $(document).ready(function (), so you wrap it in a file, function like this, then call the file in functions.php

(function($){ 'simple script goes here' })(jQuery);

HTH

David

WordPress already has a global variable called $paged just use that!

<?php
query_posts( array(
     'posts_per_page' => 5,
     'cat' => '15',
     'paged'=> $paged
  ));
?>

HTH

David