Remember Variable Scope

I’ve seen a few posts/questions asking why code from Theme X doesn’t work in a Carrington based theme. In some cases, the answer is fairly simple – the code is relying on global variables that aren’t available in the Carrington template being referenced.

The Carrington framework loads in template files within function calls, so if you need to access a global variable, you need to declare it as global first.

For example:

echo $post->post_author;

might not work in a certain template, but this should:

global $post;
echo $post->post_author;