Firstly, do you have DEBUG set to TRUE in wp-config? Not loading further than the header may well mean there’s an error that isn’t displaying. Set it to True to see the error. Secondly, you are using for in_category on an archive page – which I believe would only apply to the first post on … Read more
If you add RewriteRule ^category/(.+)$ http://www.yourblog.com/$1 [R=301,L] to your .htaccess file (obviously replace your URL) this should remove category from the URL.
Refer to the Template Hierarchy to see why this doesn’t work. archive-{$post_type}.php is only for custom post type archive display, the format for custom taxonomies is taxonomy-{$taxonomy}.php.
It’s a little bit hard to choose “best way”, when you give so few details describing your case. There are two most common ways I can think of. Use category description. You can then print it out in category/archive template using category_description. Make custom page template which will display posts from given category (or whatever … Read more
Create a new template in your theme named archive-encyclopedia.php. In your theme folder, copy the archive.php or index.php and name it archive-encyclopedia.php. Now you can make your custom changes to the new template. This template will be called instead of the default archive template as archive-{post-type}.php will be used before archive.php or index.php.
Okay, after a research of a matter, i came to the conclusion. My post types would either be the category posts with no data (parent containers) or a child posts – standard articles. My template will check if the post does have any children – if not – it will display the post itself, and … Read more
A few things here. I will not make use of variables here. To be honest, I really don’t see the usefulness of variables here. Don’t complicate your code unnecessarily. Also don’t use underscores in your names. You’ve place your code in a function, which is not wrong. However, if you do your registration in a … Read more
A template with a standard loop just outputs the contents of the main query, which is based on the requested URL. WordPress loads specific templates based on the results of the main query, but the template itself isn’t otherwise connected to what the main query contains, that all happens before the template is loaded. If … Read more
If you are trying to display a list of post that belongs to two or more taxonomy terms, you are using the wrong URL. If your are usgin pretty permalinks, it should be: www.example.com/service-provider/?service=electricians&area=north-shore-lower If you are not using pretty permalinks, it should be: www.example.com/?post-type=service-provider&service=electricians&area=north-shore-lower Anyway, you are expected to be in multitax archive page … Read more
You would control the markup by editing archive.php. Here you can add a wrapper to individual posts.