I was able to get the result that I wanted by putting the following into the functions.php file in my theme directory: function exclude_category( $query ) { if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) { $query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-208’ ); } } add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_category’ ); The result of using this code was that any posts tagged … Read more
You are already using pages which does not work the same as posts. You have to remember, pages don’t have taxonomies and they are excluded from the main query by default on all archive pages and the homepage, so there can never be any links to any kind of archive. Archive pages, whether date, category … Read more
In your functions.php file, use pre_get_posts and swap out the -1 in the following code with the category I.D you want to exclude from your posts page. function exclude_category( $query ) { if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) { $query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-1’ ); } } add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_category’ );
You can use a similar block of code to display the categories in a dropdown. I have picked the following example from WordPress codex article on get_categories(): <select name=”event-dropdown” onchange=”document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;”> <option value=””><?php echo esc_attr(__(‘Select Event’)); ?></option> <?php $categories = get_categories(‘child_of=10’); foreach ($categories as $category) { $option = ‘<option value=”/category/blog/’.$category->category_nicename.'”>’; $option .= $category->cat_name; $option .= ‘ … Read more
Possible causes – 1) The template which is being applied for this page is having 0 (static or some evaluated result) as prefix to the post content. 2) It’s being added via filtering done by any piece of code in the theme or any plugin through the hook the_content. 3) If the result of each … Read more
<?php $counter = 1; if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <?php if($counter == 1) : ?> <div class=”row clear” style=”margin-bottom:0px;”> <div class=”col-md-12 border-12″> <a class=”thumb” href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/202991/<?php the_permalink(); ?>” title=”<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”><?php the_post_thumbnail(‘category-thumbnail’); ?></a> <div class=”blog-details-wrapper clear”> <h2 class=”title”> <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/202991/<?php the_permalink(); ?>” title=”<?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a> </h2> <span class=”date”><?php the_time(‘F j, Y’); ?> <?php … Read more
Blog page (aka posts page) corresponds to is_home() conditional, which you are excluding. is_home() is often at site root, but blog page configured to be elsewhere is exactly the case when it isn’t.
From what can see on your website, the Blog page is highlighted in a same way as a Podcast page because it has a class ‘current_page_parent’ that has the same styling in CSS as a ‘current-menu-item’ which is used on a Podcast menu item. This means that the Podcast page is a child page of … Read more
If you are searching for a simple email subscription without a paid marketing service, then you can use Jetpack subscriptions. A good tutorial is explained in this page http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-email-subscriptions-for-your-wordpress-blog/ Skip to the Jetpack section, Or you can also use a wordpress plugin for email subscriptions with more control over the newsletters and subscription using https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-subscribers/
First, try rebuilding your permalinks. Go to Settings >> Permalinks and click Save, which will rebuild them. If that doesn’t work, go into your Settings >> Reading >> Blog pages show at most setting and try increasing or decreasing that and see how that changes things. Some themes have a setting that lets you adjust … Read more