OK. I’m getting conflicting instructions from my training resources (again). This time the issue for me is “how to set a default homepage”. One tutorial (Coyers “WordPress 3: Creating and Editing Custom Themes”) uses home.php, while another (“Professional WordPress”) recommends setting “Front page displays…” via WordPress (Settings > Reading). …aargh! In checking the forums and … Read more
Let’s say that I have a post that I only want to be shown in the page of the category that it belongs to. The problem is that this post is also visible in the latest posts page. Is there a way to hide this post from the latest post page and show it only … Read more
Is it possible to select a post as the front page but show all the posts lists? Here’s what I’m trying to do. I can easily create posts and I want to set one of them to be the posts page but when I try to select a front page post it only shows pages … Read more
I am trying to create a multilanguage website. And I have set my home page to a static page in my WP admin area. This home page ID is 2 and it calls front-page.php template when I am on the home page at this address, for example, http://examplesite.com/ So for a french version, I have … Read more
I am stuck at add_custom_background. I can change background color/image but I only want to change my index page. Currently, the changes apply on the whole page. I want to make the changes from WP-admin. How can I specify it to a specific page ? Edit: I just checked im running 3.3.1. So my version … Read more
I’m trying to exclude the first 5 posts from the first page on the homepage, but I’m unable to get it right. This is the patern that I’d like to follow: Page 1: Post 5, Post 6, Post 7, Post 8, Post 9 Page 2: Post 10, Post 11, Post 12, Post 13, Post 14 … Read more
My front-page.php works fine in the WordPress root folder. But I would like to put it in the page-templates subfolder. How do I make it load from there? 1 Answer 1 You can make use of the frontpage_template filter to adjust where your template should be loaded from add_filter( ‘frontpage_template’, function ( $template ) { … Read more
I was watching a WordPress course, the explainer has page.php and index.php theme template files. Which means the page.php must load the home page, but the home page is loaded with index.php! I used his same files, but I have page.php loading the home page! How does his setup override it but mine doesn’t? 1 … Read more
I have wordpress site and set login page as static front page. If I go to theme customizer exactly it will use front page to show site live preview. How to change page live preview to another page? In this case I will use post page as live preview page in customizer. 1 Answer 1 … Read more
I’ve been doing some searching on this topic but so far nothing I’ve found really answers my question. I know there are a few ways to go about this, but I’m looking for the method that’s going to be the cleanest and most stable. What I’d like to do is have three different sets of … Read more
