Google ‘how to make your own WordPress plugin’

basically you can just create a plugin per the simple docs on WordPress.org in the ‘codex’ and then you just put the functions in there, upload to plugin folder, activate… ta da.

Really simple.

e.g.,

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Better Example
Plugin URI: http://wordpress.org/#
Description: Undoing the Madness
Author: Everett's sometimes obnoxious Twin
Version: 0.7
Author URI: http://theonion.com/
*/
function safe_print() {
print " -------- I think I'm getting a clue!";
}
/* End of File */

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Tip… put custom functions into your own plugin, and it survives updates

Normal function for WordPress for any ‘editor’ level user. However a ‘subscriber’ should not see the edit option unless you have changed user roles, or using some kind of visitor post app that might mess with that.

I don’t work here – just feedback as long time user/lurker 🙂

@davidagent
Are you having issue accessing the forum or your own website?
Seems like you just posted here, so… likely not.

Have you scanned your website with SECURI to see if your site got infected? The theme itself is *not* infected with anything.

See my [tutorial] on keeping your site secure, if new to WordPress. 🙂

Not part of theme; it’s built in to WP; you can either add a function to disable for everybody; or you control that per user on the ‘edit user’ page for each user. 🙂

Blame Envato for a crappy updater. This is why *most* people update themes manually by FTP, so you can also do safety backup FIRST, in case you break something; this allows you to ‘roll back’ if the ‘auto update’ fails and kills your website.

Welcome to WordPress!

There is no automatic update, as with many/most ‘commercial’ themes. If you sign up for the update note on your Envato/ThemeForest account – you will get email each time there is a theme update. Dot updates are typically bug or security fixes, or to update the included plugins – so check changelog each time. Major number updates are big upgrades and like new theme.

Yeah. Also note every time you update Yoast SEO, be sure to check the ‘features’ page as they sometimes turn stuff ‘on’ by default, even if you don’t want it (like ‘count links’) or similar. They have also added new ‘user roles’ for SEO Manager to the WP dbase without asking if we wanted that. I posted a [tutorial] around here on how to turn that off with a function.

Anyway, glad you got it sorted! 🙂

That’s how WordPress works. If you put a link in your post, the default it basic HTML for an anchor link. Theme does not control that. As always, you can add your own target link when putting a URL into a post and WP now adds a rel=noopener to fix the security flaw which made opening links in new tabs or windows a no-no.

If basic links in posts are not what you were referring to you, you might need to be waaaaay more specific. Do you mean social links, or do you mean what ?

What did you update? And, did you clear your mobile browser cache to see the new site?

often you can just type the credit into your post after the photo, or at the bottom of post

PHOTO CREDIT: Image courtesy and © Joe Smith - SmithPix

Been using it for 2 years; works great for me… but them I’m from hell … sooo ….

best way is to just ‘use it…’ like learning to skate, you just need to get on the ice and learn by doing …

create a row, see what happens, learn how to break into more than one column; when you highlight some thing options shown on left …

just play with it … not that horrible … really … but then I have a pointy tail, so ignore me ! 🙂

I think you can do ‘incognito mode’ in Chrome ?

And of course, log-out of your WP admin panel whenever you leave your website.

• This reply was modified 8 years by simchris.

might be caching issue; try hitting refresh in your browser.

if it shows as in ‘catgorynamex’ on the post edit page; it *is* in that category and will show on the index; as that is part of WP, not the theme.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/age-gate/

You basically need to have open graph tags added to your site, typically with a plugin like Yoast SEO or similar.

Usually you can go to ‘edit page,’ for your static home page template, select the block, then choose which category to pull content from such as ‘featured’ or the ID for ‘featured’ category, depending on where that is being done.

That’s how I do it anyway.

LOL — once you know it’s there, it’s like … ‘of course!’ 🙂

Note, we use the free ‘thumbnail upscale’ plugin here to help in cases where a thumb needs to be a little bigger than the original (e.g., 500×450 >> 640×0 ).

Stupidly WP disables server function to enlarge images as they think ‘they look bad.’

(!)

Well look for the custom fields bottom of your posts, edit the one for views.

Consider testing a backup. Check for hosting errors. Turn on debug mode. Check for hacked site. Try switching to default theme, or try disabling any plugins you updated.

check the system status page in theme to ensure you have enough resources

You need to actually choose one of the other templates for the footer, not the default one in order to use the widget areas. Try changing to the blank one with three empty colums, then save. Then clear any caching; try clearing transients with WP-Optimize; hit ‘force refresh’ in Chrome once logged out. It does work.

One option would be to disable the views function from theme panel, and then use the WP-PostViews plugin but edit to use the same datafield/custom field used by the theme (or edit dbase to rewrite to ‘views’); then you’d turn ‘off’ the view on pages option in the plugin, but the views would still show for logged in users.

Simpler than hiring programmer.

OR:
With the theme only, you’d have to disable the code on all templates to keep it live in the admin post index view.

Food for thought anyway.