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Navbar Dropdown Woe

Came across an issue with the Bootstrap navbar dropdown with respect to WordPress.  Here’s the issue: Download Bootstrap and put it up on your website (reference the min.css and min.js files). Go to the sample code for the Default Navbar in the Bootstrap docs...

WordPress Query Performance

Understanding what WordPress is doing under the hood can be tough – especially when it comes to the raw SQL queries.  As is usually typical with WordPress, somebody has written a plugin for it – in this case, it is called debug-bar.  To get it going, do...

Packaging plugins with themes

As I develop a new theme, I want to package plugins with my theme.  Normally, plugins are installed under wp-content/plugins – but if you are distributing your theme, you need a clean, WordPress-familiar way of distributing the corresponding plugins as well...

Admin bar not showing

I am developing a new theme from scratch.  Came across an issue where the black admin bar (runs along the top of a site for Administrators) was not displaying.  Turned out that I had wp_head() called from within my header.php file, but did not have wp_footer() called...

Accessing a WordPress database

Ever see code like this? function my_special_function() { global $wpdb; $wpdb->get_results( “select * from tbl_blah” ); } There’s a special variable that WordPress sets up called $wpdb.  It is a window into the database – something that a...