I want to customize my plugin but I am beginner, so please tell me what is the necessary steps for plugin customization either plugin is completed or simple.
If you already have that particular plugin(which you'd like to customize) installed on your wordpress, you may find the source code files under the following path:
[your_wordpress_dir]/wp-content/plugins/
If you want to customize a plugin that is available for download, you may follow the below steps
download it from wp_download_manager
unzip the package and find the source files where you can customize it.
put the customized plugin package in the above mentioned path in your wordpress directory(if you'd like to have this plugin installed in your wordpress project).
If you want your plugin to be available for public, you may add it to wp directory
first you have to download the .zip file and unzip it. Then customize it like you need and make it to a .zip again. Then upload it on your Wordpress site.
Related
My website is www.rosstheexplorer.com.
I am fairly sure I have managed to corrupt / break my Penscratch Wordpress Theme.
When I try and load my website I am greeted with a white page.
Where can I redownload the Wordpress Penscratch theme files?
I have access to my file manager. I was hoping to be able to download the Penscratch php files and then upload them to my file manager.
A simeple google search for you theme suggests this url
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/penscratch/
You can click on download button and get the files then backup old files and replace the whole folder with downloaded version of theme. You may need to unzip it before uploading via ftp or if using filemanager make sure you place files in correct folder and unzip them properly.
Thank you for peoples suggestions.
I used that site and it was what I needed. Although in the end I did not have to reupload the theme. I was able to correct my existing theme.
Look here for more explanation Finding custom-header.php in file manage on Wordpress Penscratch theme
I downloaded a theme called MyWriter. In my WP panel it says I should update it, when I click update I get this error:
Update Failed: The package could not be installed. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature
It uploaded correctly and works fine as well. But I thought before I start customising it properly, I should update it. Does anyone know how I can get past this?
Thanks,
Can you download the theme package and unzip it manually? The most likely cause of the error is that the zip is corrupt or that it was not compressed with zip.
If you can unzip the theme package, you could then upload the latest version via FTP to the folder /wp-content/themes/mywriter (please note the actual folder would be case sensitive so if its myWriter or MyWriter or some other variation be careful to upload it to the right place).
Or you could try rezipping it (using zip) and upload it via WordPress admin.
Incidentally, if you are intending to customise the theme substantially, then you should use a child theme. Otherwise next time the theme is brought up to date by the theme author you could stand to lose all of your customisations. For more information about creating a child theme, the official WordPress guidance can be found here https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes and is explained more simply here https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/01/create-customize-wordpress-child-theme/
Hope this helps.
I have created my own custom plugin and when i just paste it in my plugin folder its working fine. now i wanted to make it installable so if anyone try to install in their project so they can install it with the given plugin upload menu in admin panel.
Copy the plugin_file_name.php in the folder /wp-content/plugins and its ready to work. But is better Create a folder and put in file.
Its very simple process to make your plugin installable. Just register 3 hooks in your plugin :
register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'your_activation_function_name');
register_deactivation_hook(__FILE__, 'your_deactivate_function_name');
register_uninstall_hook(__FILE__, 'your_delete_function_name');
In your_delete_function_name function, please add code to remove the db changes you made and also code to remove your plugin directory.
Now just zip the folder of your custom plugin folder and its ready to be installed in any wordpress site. It worked for me as i am working in wordpress 4.6.
can someone who has experience with wordpress help me??
I have been trying to install WooCommerce - excelling eCommerce plugin on my wordpress theme, but since I'm working on localhost I think this is causing me some problems. When I try to download it directly from wordpress dashboard it starts with the normal procedure and then it just stays like this and nothing happens: Downloading install package from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/woocommerce.2.1.12.zip…
while when I download the plugin separately and upload the .zip file in wordpress, I get this message: Are you sure you want to do this? Please try again.
when I click on Please try again, I get redirected in the step of choosing the file to upload and then if I do the same I get stuck on an infinite loop of doing the same things which lead me nowhere...
The solution to the problem is as follows:
Download the plugin as .zip
Unzip the .zip file
Copy the plugin files to the plugins folder of Wordpress
Open your Wordpress website and activate the plugin
I am trying to install a theme I downloaded from this website.
I am using XAMPP and I am not sure how to install this dowloaded theme using XAMPP.
I tried installing this theme with the zip folder (in zip format) in Wordpress but I get the error
” The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.
Theme install failed. “
I found a similar on Wordpress website but they mentioned using FTP but I don’t know how to use FTP with XAMPP
I want to install the theme and test it out locally before I make it live or buy a domain name.
This is my first time doing this (I am a student) so I don’t totally know how things work together, don’t know if I am using the description/terms but I hope I described the problem well enough.
How to go about this? Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
OK so its a bit weird that the theme you downloaded is missing the CSS file. When you upload it Wordpress is trying to find that file and failing. For now, let's assume that the creator of the theme put the CSS file in a different location than usual.
To install a theme manually via XAMPP do the following:
Locate XAMPP's htdocs folder. This is normally Applications>>XAMPP>>HTDOCs on Mac or My Computer>>C:>>XAMPP>>HTDOCs on Windows (I think - someone might need to correct me on that).
If your site is installed in a sud-directory in htdocs, go there. If not skip to next step.
Open the wp-content folder
Open the themes folder
Copy in your downloaded theme and extract it there (if its zipped)
Go to your Wordpress Dashboard and go to the Appearance button on the left and click Themes from the drop down. Find your newly installed theme and hit Activate.
That should do the trick unless your theme is missing some vital elements
(PS: what your are doing here - moving (theme) files from one location to another - is essentially the same as FTP. Difference is FTP allows you to transfer files accross the internet from computer to computer: say your computer to a web server hosting your site.)
Add this lines to your wp-config.php file
//** To add the direct installation of the themes **//
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');
Then go to wp-admin and click on customize your site. Press on change button on the active theme and browse for your favorite theme from wordpress.org and install then enjoy