Plugin-territory and content creation meeting

On Thursday December 13th at 18:00 UTC, we will have an extra meeting about pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party territory and content creation.

Theme authors and reviewers are encouraged to attend and suggest functionality or features that they would like to be able to add to themes. We will then discuss whether it would be possible to allow this functionality, and what the best solution would be. An example of this would be the recent discussion about onboarding.

We will also have the opportunity to discuss specific theme tickets where a second opinion may be needed.

By making plugin territory and content creation more of a team decision, we will hopefully be able to increase awareness and reduce the inconsistencies between reviews, as well as provide better information to the theme author about why something might not be allowed.

In case we need help getting the discussions started, I did a quick search in the themes TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/.. Here are some of the recent items that reviewers have asked theme authors to remove because they are plugin territory:

Changing user_contactmethods (adding social media links)
Google maps (using the api)
Saving post view count (Post popularity)
Sending emails, contact forms
Comment rating / comment likes
Login page customization
Share buttons
HeaderHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes./Footer Scripts section in the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings.
Image resizing
SEO related metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. tags

-As a follow up, if we agree that something is plugin territory, we should discuss adding automated checks to blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. it.

The content creation is harder to search for, the most common problem is the amount of content creation, not specific features.

function semperfi_sanitize_image_850_478( $input , $setting ) { if ( attachment_url_to_postid( $input ) != 0 ) return esc_url( wp_get_attachment_image_src( attachment_url_to_postid( $input ) , '850x478' )[0] ); else return sc_url( $setting->default ); }

Joy 5:46 pm on December 9, 2018

In reference to content creation:
Obviously, we look at what happens when the user switches themes, but another thing to consider is what happens when there is a problem and the default theme is used as fallback. It is essentially a theme switch, but not controlled by the user.
Schwarttzy 5:59 am on December 14, 2018

Sorry, this isn’t in reference to the topic.

WP_Customize_Cropped_Image_Control has a few major problems for a theme developer. WP_Customize_Cropped_Image_Control returns the ID, which I think is a bad choice. Although I can make the ID work at the price of an increased CPU load on the server. But the fatal flaw is ‘default’, specifically when using $wp_customize -> add_setting to set the default image. Instead of a simple URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org of the image in the image folder of the theme, I now have a whole crazy process. Which is…. unless I’m missing something, I have to import the default theme images into the media library and then I have to somehow obtain those image ID’s and then somehow circle back and set the ‘default’ option in $wp_customize -> add_setting to this randomly generated ID.

Maybe there is a way to force the image to have a specific ID when it uploads?

Could the default option just be a simple URL instead of an ID?

What am I missing here? Does no one set the defaults in their customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. options?
- Schwarttzy 6:05 am on December 14, 2018
  
  Just to clarify, when viewing the customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings.
  
  $wp_customize -> add_setting ( ‘your_option_name_here’, array(
  ‘default’ => ‘this_has_to_be_a_number_that_matches_an_ID_for_to_work’,
  
  with a
  
  $wp_customize -> add_control ( new WP_Customize_Cropped_Image_Control…..
  
  has to be an ID for the image to display properly.
- Joy 6:35 pm on December 14, 2018
  
  @schwarttzy, You should make your setting be the type that makes the most sense. Then the control is used to get information from the user. That information is then manipulated to be in the correct format for the setting.
  You are approaching it the opposite way.
  - Schwarttzy 7:38 pm on December 14, 2018
    Thanks for reply JOY!
    
    I think I found a solution and going to be trying to get it to work today.
    
    add_theme_support( 'starter-content', $starter_content );
    
    https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/30/starter-content-for-themes-in-4-7/
    
    My dream is to have a theme in the repository that looks just like the screenshot when the potential user clicks on the ‘preview’ button on the theme page. For example, when the user clicks on https://wordpress.org/themes/semper-fi-lite/ it would display a fully correct with all features enabled. Although ‘starter-content’ may be limited… because it seems like it won’t take effect until they view ‘CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings.’.
    
    Is that right?
  - Schwarttzy 7:49 pm on December 14, 2018
    
    Could you elaborate by what you mean by “You are approaching it the opposite way”? I’m just trying to use the built-in crop function in customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. for a correct image size within the theme. Instead of having an excessively complicated code and an ever-expanding physical space on the servers hard drive for all ‘add_image_size’ to get the correct image sizes.
    
    This is all stems from googles pagespeed insight and trying to build a fast as possible theme.
- Schwarttzy 4:04 am on December 15, 2018
  WOW! That was one long rabbit hole.
  
  So the workaround is simple but crazy to have to think this up… I’m not that smart. I just need to develop my own custom sanitize function the some rarely used WordPress functions. For example wp_get_attachment_image_src and attachment_url_to_postid. However, at a quick glance, it still doesn’t solve the default image problem. But that can be fixed with realizing that the sanitize function brings in the whole $wp_customize -> add_setting options. Which from there is a simple if-else check and return the default image.
```
function semperfi_sanitize_image_850_478( $input , $setting ) {
    
    if ( attachment_url_to_postid( $input ) != 0 )
        
        return esc_url( wp_get_attachment_image_src( attachment_url_to_postid( $input ) , '850x478' )[0] );
    
    else
        
        return sc_url( $setting->default );
    
}
```
  Now for my next trick, can use WP_Customize_Cropped_Image_Control to get the height and width in there so I don’t need a different sanitize for each image size that I plan to use.

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