Look for this in the code where you registered the lyrics post type: ‘has_archive’ => true, Set ‘has_archive’ => false. That won’t work right away, however. So you need to go in an “refresh” your permalinks. Just go to the permalinks options page, and hit the save button.
You can utilize the wp_trim_excerpt filter. In your callback function that filters the the excerpt text, you can test for the presence of a certain template; then, if that template is being used, you can go ahead and alter the excerpt in any way that you see fit. In order to determine which template is … Read more
You could add a category for that custom type with the year number . So old movies will been archived into a category of 2010 , and newer one into a category of 2011. Also it will allow an easy way for your users to view and figure what year is a movie from.
Archives.php is usually not a page template – it is a file used to display all the archived posts (usually some sort of list …) It is usually triggered by a function that deals with archived posts like <?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly’); ?> Anyhow – A page template file has to have this code in the begining … Read more
In WordPress you need to start the session with if ( !session_id() ) { session_start(); } in order to use session variables. You can enter this code into wp-config See http://www.frank-verhoeven.com/using-session-in-wordpress
Have you looked at PHP’s date function? A quick example : $dates = $wpdb->get_col( /*your sql*/ ); if( $dates ) { $archive_year = “”; foreach( $dates as $date ) { $the_date = strtotime( $date ); $year = date( ‘Y’, $the_date ); //4 digit year, ex 1999 $month = date( ‘F’, $the_date ); //Full textual month, … Read more
I am not sure off-hand if custom taxonomies have this (I’m almost positive they do) but Tags and Categories already have a Description field you can fill out, and then display on any page. It would take some modification of your template files but what you can do is something like this: Enter the description … Read more
To load override WordPress’ choice of template you can use template_include filter and then use the locate_template to return the the template file path (if it finds it). The file-name passed to locate_template must be the name of the template file name (which should be in you theme/child-theme directory). //Loads template customtemplate.php from your theme … Read more
When using custom post types I got around this problem by using the following code. Of course you will need to put in the HTML for how you want it to display on your site. <?php $temp = $wp_query; $wp_query= null; $wp_query = new WP_Query(); $wp_query->query(”); // Enter you query here ?> <?php while ($wp_query->have_posts()) … Read more
It’s still early for me, but you need to check for if( $events_query->have_posts() ) : rather than if( have_posts ) : as the latter will be checking against the current post type and not your custom query.