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To get the URL of the featured image (also known as the post thumbnail) in WordPress, you can use the get_the_post_thumbnail_url() function. This function retrieves the URL of the featured image for a given post. Here’s how you can use...

To get the last modified time of an article in WordPress given its ID, you can use the get_post_modified_time function. Here’s how you can do it: <?php $post_id = 5;$last_modified_time = get_post_modified_time(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’, true, $post_id); echo ‘last_modified_time: ‘ . $last_modified_time;...

Although our theme has a style.css file, it is not used yet. Let’s enqueue it now. Add the following code to functions.php, so that the styles added in style.css will be applied to the theme’s styles: function my_custom_theme_enqueue() {wp_enqueue_style( ‘my-custom-theme’,...

Adding Google Analytics tracking to emails involves a slightly different approach compared to tracking website visits. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to add Google Analytics tracking to emails: Step 1: Get Your Google Analytics Tracking ID Sign in to...

Creating and customizing a child theme in WordPress is a good practice to ensure that your customizations are preserved when the parent theme receives updates. Here’s a step-by-step guide to create and customize a child theme: Step 1: Create a...

As with sidebars and navigation menus, we can’t just output featured images in our theme and expect them to work, we must first tell WordPress that we support the feature. In functions.php add: add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ ); Now we can add_post_thumbnail();...

Adding a Sidebar Our theme also doesn’t have a sidebar (widget area), let’s fix that now. First, we need to register the sidebar in functions.php: function my_custom_theme_sidebar() {register_sidebar( array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Primary Sidebar’, ‘my-custom-theme’ ), ‘id’ => ‘sidebar-1’,) );...

Functions.php is not strictly a required file, but it provides so many benefits that 99.99% of themes have it. In functions.php, you can take advantage of WordPress’ built-in theme functionality and also add your own custom PHP code. Now create...

index.php is a strictly required file. Its job is to render all of our theme’s front-end output. Since index.php will render all of our pages (home, posts, categories, archives), it will do a lot of work. First, we need a...

In /wp-content/themes/, create a folder called my-custom-theme and create the following two files: style.css In order for WordPress to recognize our theme and output it correctly in the Appearance → Theme list, we need to put some WordPress specific code...