I would like to create an Angular 2 SPA that uses the WordPress REST API as a back-end. How can I use the API to fetch the page the user has set as their front page? 4 s 4 We could implement our own endpoint: https://example.tld/wpse/v1/frontpage Here’s a simple demo (PHP 5.4+): <?php /** * … Read more
I have a baseball related website with multiple authors. I use the “Stick this post to the front page” to denote an “Editor’s Pick” on an article. I would like to add a link/button to allow editor to do this from the front end. The method can either be in the article itself or in … Read more
I’ve a pretty basic problem that I’m surprised WP doesn’t have a native solution for (unless I’m overlooking something, hopefully). I’ve a WP site with static page set as front page in reading setting. In a plugin code, I’m trying to determine whether WP is displaying the front page and add a class to $classes … Read more
I’m working on a website that uses a static front page. It also shows the single most recent blog post. This was achieved by creating a page and using a custom page template. Sometimes, the blog post is too long, so I want to use the_excerpt to automatically shorten it without the need for a … Read more
I am trying to programmatically set the ‘page_on_front’ option with the id value retrieved from the get_page_by_title command… $homepage = get_page_by_title( ‘Front Page’ ); update_option(‘page_on_front’, $homepage); update_option(‘show_on_front’, ‘page’); This isn’t working, can anyone help? 1 get_page_by_title() returns an object. Use $homepage->ID. You should also check if you really got a usable return value: $homepage = … Read more
I have done quite extensive research on how to use pre_get_posts on true pages and the static front pages, and it seems that there is no fool proof method. The best option I found to date was from a post done by @birgire on Stackoverflow. I have rewritten it into a demo class and made … Read more
I’ve found that is_front_page appears to return true when I’m viewing the home page and have a single sticky post assigned there. It also returns true when I’ve assigned a page as the static front page via Settings > Reading. Why would I ever want to use is_home()? is_front_page() returns true if the user is … Read more
