Matt Cohen

Hi chinchanchan,

JavaScript in WordPress, the first time, can seem confusing.

I’ve written a blog post explaining using JavaScript in WordPress which will hopefully shed some light on the subject.

Essentially, it’s a matter of “enqueuing” the JavaScripts you’re looking to run, as well as the call.

This is the call:

‘$(function() {
$(“pre”).transpose();
});’

You would place the call in it’s own JavaScript file and enqueue it like the others, but as the last file to make sure all the other scripts are loaded.

I hope this helps. 🙂

Cheers,
Matty.

@aaron_guitar Thanks for this fix, Aaron. It’s working perfectly on my end. 🙂

@runningboy01 Has the fix provided by Aaron worked on your end?

@rvoodoo PHP isn’t too picky about the semi-colon. It’s generally good to use them though. 🙂

@samuel F. Another option may be to replace the call to bloginfo() with echo get_bloginfo(). The bloginfo() function uses get_bloginfo() to retrieve the data you’re querying for.

If the bloginfo() function isn’t present, it seems to me as if there is a file that isn’t loading correctly in your WordPress installation. If general-template.php isn’t the problem file, it would be the file that loads it in.

Is it possible to update your installation with a freshly downloaded version of the latest version of WordPress? It is quite possible that a file didn’t finish uploading properly or was missed when uploading via FTP.

I hope this helps, Sam. 🙂

All the best,
Matty.

Hi dublintours,

On viewing the link provided, I noticed a PHP error that reads as follows:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_specialchars_decode() in /usr/local/pem/vhosts/187777/webspace/httpdocs/wp/wp-includes/formatting.php on line 268

In this case, I would recommend re-uploading the wp-includes folder from a fresh version of WordPress (that has the same version number of the one used on your installation) and see if this remedies the issue.

The function in question is defined in wp-includes/formatting.php around line 355. If you’d prefer not to re-upload the entire folder (recommended as there may be other files missing), I’d recommend re-uploading a fresh copy of formatting.php into wp-includes.

All the best,
Matty.

Hi bluellipse,
When customising an existing WordPress theme, it is advised to create a child theme.

A child theme is, essentially, a theme that makes use of the files of another theme and the styling (and any overridden functionality) of your new theme.

Creating a Hybrid child theme is easy. The steps are as follows:

1. Unzip Hybrid into your themes folder.
2. Create a new theme folder.
3. Inside your new folder, create a style.css file and paste the following code at the top, changing the areas in capitals:

/**
 * Theme Name: YOUR_THEME_NAME
 * Theme URI:
 * Description: A_DESCRIPTION_OF_YOUR_THEME
 * Version: 0.7.1 (keep this the same as Hybrid, for your reference)
 * Author: YOUR_NAME_HERE
 * Author URI: http://your-url.com
 * Tags: YOUR_TAGS_HERE
 * Template: hybrid
 */

This essentially tells the system: “This is my new theme, and if you can’t find a file in here, look in hybrid for the file.” This is the concept of child theming. Thus, the original Hybrid theme is preserved, and your changes are separated into your own theme.

If you wish to override specific functionality within Hybrid, there are a selection of filters and hooks that can be modified, along with the extensible nature of the Hybrid theme.

I hope this helps. 🙂

There’s also an excellent community over at the Theme Hybrid website: http://themehybrid.com/support/ 🙂

All the best,
Matty.

Hey frent, deanhoover, kingkool68,

Enqueuing Javascript in WordPress seems to be a regular topic of conversation. I have had similar issues in the past, including Javascript conflicts caused by incorrectly included Javascript.

Please see my blog post on Javascript and WordPress – The Definitive Guide for a detailed explanation of how to enqueue Javascript within WordPress plugins and themes.

I hope this helps. 🙂

Cheers,
Matty.