I'm trying to edit a WordPress plugin. My conventional thinking is telling me to edit HTML but I know WordPress is PHP. I'm not talking about CSS editing either (aesthetics, positioning, color...etc). I know how to do that.
For example let's say I have a plugin Form with an input box with the title "how much" however I want it to say something else like "Dollars"....how do I do this?
Also the plugin admin area doesn't give me the option to change this in the backend. Isn't there another way to change that?
Ways to do it:
Search for the string in the plugin's files and check if it offers a filter hook (apply_filters), if it does create a plugin or use functions.php.
Use another plugin to modify the string.
If the plugin has internatinaliztion support, create a translation file for your language and translate only that string. Use en_US if your WPLANG is empty.
Hack the plugin itself and change the string (bad, this has to be done at each plugin upgrade).
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I've got a page template that I've built using elementor on wordpress. I need to add a handful of custom fields and not only do I have to upgrade to do this (really can't be bothered messing around with the licences between the dev & live sites) it seems massively over complicated & bloaty for something that should just be a template for a custom post type with 2x ACF text fields.
Right-click & save as gives me 113Kb of html that gives you a migraine at a glance. No way I'm sorting through all that.
What's the best way of doing that in your opinions?
If your fields are text-based, and you're just looking to add the custom fields to the template, maybe you could call them via the ACF shortcode? [acf field=""]
Here the link: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/shortcode/
As for converting Elementor templates specifically to HTML, I'm sure; but if you want to convert your WordPress website to HTML, then you could make use of the: Simply Static WP Plugin
I hope this helps.
I am using a premium woocommerce theme.I don't like the position and look of the search-bar.Its tiny and I want to make it look like Google search-bar.So I want to change it.I don't know coding that well.What specific thing should I do to make it happen.What coding language I have to learn to do this?
If you are lucky the Premium WooCommerce theme which you have bought must have an option to add Custom Code(CSS) through the WordPress dashboard itself.
If not please go through the following procedure:
You can change the look and position of the WordPress searchbar using CSS. In order to add the CSS to your WordPress site you need to know basics of PHP how exactly WordPress works.
You need to enqueue style in theme's(Creating a child theme of your theme is more preferable to avoid the loss of code due to theme update) function.php file or using you own custom plugin.
Both these options are given in details in this link.
Languages you need to know:
PHP, CSS
You need not have to be master of PHP to do the changes just the basics of php is fine.
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How to write in functions.php
https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/
The hook that you are looking for is woocommerce_after_add_to_cart_button. To write a function, please review WordPress Plugin API. If this is too confusing, you have the option of editing the templates themselves by going to /wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/templates/single-product/ then you can do a search for woocommerce_after_add_to_cart_button. Keep in mind that updating WooCommerce may erase those templates so I advice you to keep your template files in your theme instead.
I would like to know which WP plugin should I choose to allow every user who come to my page to add a post to my page form the frontend.
He just click on a button add a new post or something like that. Than a form appear and he inserts the title and uploads an image.
After that its published as a post.
Is there a solution like this available for WP?
Thanks in advance.
From what I know, there is no existing plugin doing it as you need. Even if it existed, I wouldn't recommend it's use for security reasons; it is hard to follow every uses and make sure visitors would post the way you want.
You are definitely better to code it by your own, and it's quite simple using the wp_insert_post function. This function will work anywhere you put it inside Wordpress (no need to build a plugin from scratch), so a simple form with validation would make it.
Hope it guides you on what you're looking for.
Is there a 'good working practise' way to modify the markup that a WordPress plugin produces without editing the plugin's core files. The problem I foresee is that when you update the plugin, the markup that you would have modified overwritten.
I know in Drupal there are template overrides, but I don't know enough about WordPress to do a similar practise.
Any help?
The plugin itself would probably have to be written to allow for it (though see below). There are a few ways to do this: You could have the plugin look for template files that it pulls from an arbitrary location (e.g. "uploads/myplugin") You could possibly store the HTML in the database as a setting. The plugin could be written with an apply_filter hook (just as WordPress itself uses hooks) to allow outside calls that change output (e.g. from a separate plugin or a theme's functions.php). I've used all of these methods.
If you're talking about altering the output of somebody else's plugin, you could possibly ask them to implement one of the above. Push comes to shove you can use JavaScript to manipulate the DOM.
The answer to your question is hooks and templates. If you're lucky, the plugin will use templates for its output and will check your theme to see if you've overridden them, or it may have some filter hooks that let you modify its output. If you're not so lucky, and you can't get the plugin authors to add some for you, you'll need to get more creative.
hook into the WordPress queries that the plugin is
making, and alter them to return different results.
hook into the WordPress get_option() function to change the plugin's settings on the fly.
hook into the page content, and use preg_replace() to hack the HTML.
hook in early in the page generation, call ob_start() to buffer the page output, and hook the wp_footer to call ob_end_clean() and use preg_replace() to hack the HTML.
Just some ideas :)
Obviously, it's best to work with the plugin than against it. You should check to see whether your plugin uses templates, and if it doesn't, search for calls to apply_filter() and do_action(). But sometimes, needs must!