I’m searching how to keep the featured post in my blog homepage without excluding it from query post. My blog uses the Twenty Fourteen theme. I found this solution. Open the featured-content.php from your theme’s inc folder, and look for the following code (line 269 in our case). $query->set( ‘post__not_in’, $featured ); Simply comment out … Read more
I have a client who’s site will be making heavy use of custom post types to configure their site. But I’m between a rock and a hard place for their requested home page. In reality, the home page will be a stack of specific “pages” within WordPress. Basically, there will be pages for: Intro, Blog, … Read more
I’m trying to use the front page as a default of sorts for featured images (if no featured image is set, I want to use the front page’s, for example) But I’m having trouble finding out how to get the post ID of the front page in a safe manner (so that my code still … 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
