Wordpress cheatsheet

wordpress-cheatsheet.php

// TRANSLATION

// Translateable string, with escaping (in case there are special characters in one of the translations)
// This is the best choice since it catches and escapes any HTML that may be in the string
esc_html__( 'This is my string', 'translationdomain' );
esc_html_e( 'This is my string', 'translationdomain' );

// Retrieve the translation of a string
// Don't know why but apparently all three methods work
__( 'This is my string', 'translationdomain' )
_( 'This is my string', 'translationdomain' )
_e( 'This is my string', 'translationdomain' )

// Displays translated text that has been escaped for safe use in an attribute.
// i.e. <a aria-label="<?php esc_attr_e( 'View LinkedIn Profile', 'ms-newscenter' ); ?>">
esc_attr_e( 'some text', 'ms-newscenter' )
  
// Translateable string, with context as well as domain
// This is in case there are two identical strings that might not have identical translations
_x( 'Follow us:', 'Follow heading for social footer', 'ms-newscenter' )


// Encode visible text so that it's not rendered as browser markup
esc_html( 'http://whatnot.com' )

// rawurlencode - replace most alphanumeric characters with %XX
rawurlencode( 'http://whatnot.com' )

// Theme directory
get_stylesheet_directory_uri();
get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); // Uses get_stylesheet_directory_uri() internally