Managing Framework Features (Bloat Control)

Your Theme Blvd themes comes with a ton of end-user features, that you may or may not need, depending on how (and for who) you’re setting up your website. So, one of my personal favorite features of the theme framework is the global configuration filter because it gives developers a chance to cut out extra bloat, they feel isn’t needed.

About the Global Configuration

The global configuration is just a categorized (nested) array of items that the framework looks to for a true or false, before implementing many features. And this array has a filter themeblvd_global_config applied that allows you to easily modify it from your child theme.

This is really useful because it allows you to disable many features from just one place, without having to search around for exactly how to disable them.

For example, let’s say you wanted to completely disable Bootstrap from running in the framework. Instead of hunting around for all traces of Bootstrap, you’d simply use the global configuration filter, which will automatically (1) de-enqueue the Bootstrap stylesheet, (2) de-enqueue our custom Bootstrap grid-extension stylesheet, (3) de-enqueue the Bootstrap JavaScript file, and (4) prevent any related custom JavaScript from running in the framework’s themeblvd.js file.

Global Configuration Reference

Below is a reference the available features that can be enabled or disabled.

How to Edit the Global Configuration

When editing the global configuration array, you’re just filtering one big, nested array that contains all the items referenced in the table above. For any feature you want to enable/disable, you’ll need to the category and feature IDs referenced.

You’ll filter the array using themeblvd_global_config. Here would be your basic setup for that, from your child theme’s functions.php.

/**
 * All edits to global configuration.
 */
function my_global_config( $config ) {

	// Make edits to $config ...

	return $config;
}
add_filter('themeblvd_global_config', 'my_global_config');

Following what we’ve started setting up above, we can target items in the $config array, utilizing the category and feature IDs like $config['foo']['bar']. And then you’ll be setting those values to true or false.

Below is our basic setup, expanded to include several examples. In these examples, I’m just pulling category and feature IDs from the reference table above.

/**
 * All edits to global configuration.
 */
function my_global_config( $config ) {

	// Remove meta boxes.
	$setup['meta']['page_options'] = false;
	$setup['meta']['post_options'] = false;

	// Disable sticky menu.
	$config['display']['sticky'] = false;

	// Add comments to pages.
	$config['comments']['pages'] = true;

	// Remove unused assets.
	$config['assets']['flexslider'] = false;
	$config['assets']['owl_carousel'] = false;
	$config['assets']['superfish'] = false;
	$config['assets']['easypiechart'] = false;
	$config['assets']['isotope'] = false;

	return $config;

}
add_filter( 'themeblvd_global_config', 'my_global_config' );