A piece of WordPress coding that I thought would take about fifteen minutes ended up taking close to an hour and a half.<\/p>\n
I switched my blog theme recently from Twenty Seventeen<\/a> (well, a child theme of it) to Shoreditch<\/a> (again, a child theme of it, albeit one that I worked on in a flurry of activity in May 2016 and then didn’t touch again). Shoreditch has a featured posts slider, and I was curious about it.<\/p>\n Well, I can’t get it to work the way it’s supposed to — it’s supposed to pull six posts with a specific tag, but for some reason it’s pulling my six most recent posts — but that’s a problem I will dig into.<\/p>\n The vexing thing, for me, was that for a slider, it didn’t slide<\/i>. If you want to see the six most recent posts, you have to click on tiny buttons beneath the slider to go through them. I did some digging into the Shoreditch code, and I found what was controlling that, a js file that the parent theme loads.<\/p>\n That’s editable, I thought, into what I want. But since it’s bad form to edit the parent theme’s files — potential future upgrades would wipe out any changes I made — I knew I had to code a similar js file for my child theme, then “unload” (either by deregistration or denqueueing) the parent theme’s js.<\/p>\n I thought this would take about fifteen minutes. How hard could it be?<\/p>\n Well, it turned into an hour and a half of trial-and-error. What happens if I deregister this script? The slider, for some reason, won’t load. What if I denqueue that? Now the page has a fatal error. What if I remove this action (ie., tell WordPress not to bother with the function that loaded the scripts in the first place)? Nothing.<\/p>\n I had to experiment with various permutations of denqueue and deregister and even load priorities, and finally I found a combination that worked.<\/p>\n So, for all that effort, the slider slides. It’s not showing the content I want it to show, but there’s a slider, and it’s sliding.<\/p>\n The content I want? That’s a problem to solve another day. The easiest solution there will probably be to write a loop with the same output format and avoid the Jetpack issue altogether.<\/p>\n I don’t even remember why I gave up on Shoreditch two years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A piece of WordPress coding that I thought would take about fifteen minutes ended up taking close to an hour and a half. I switched my blog theme recently from Twenty Seventeen (well, a child theme of it) to Shoreditch (again, a child theme of it, albeit one that I worked on in a flurryContinue reading “Fighting With WordPress”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4095],"tags":[4642,4096],"class_list":["post-31207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-shoreditch","tag-wordpress","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}