The standard query for posts uses orderby => ‘post_date’ and order => ‘DESC’. The best candidate for arbitrary sort of posts would be orderby => ‘menu_order’ and order => ‘ASC’. The menu_order is not generally used for posts but it is safe to be used. As suggested by Pieter Goosen use action hook pre_get_posts: add_action( … Read more
When using hooks such as wp_enqueue_scripts you have access to Conditional Tags. This allows you to only enqueue certain things on certain pages, templates, taxonomies, etc. By default, WordPress accepts two template files as the natural blog: index.php home.php You can read more about this in the Template Hierarchy post, while it does say “Home” … Read more
You want to remove the style from single post. And the “single post” term is confusing. Whether you need it for a single post or the single post template. In either case you have to use your code with conditional and your code may look like this. If you want to remove from all posts(not … Read more
The very broad answer for why this doesn’t work is that the internet is stateless. Basically each request for a page is a separate and unique instance from other page requests. Example Let’s say post-1 is in category-1 and category-2. When WordPress loads post-1 on single.php it has no way of knowing how the user … Read more
There are a couple of things I don’t understand here, but I’ll try answering them as I go along. You have a home.php, which I assume is your default homepage. You have one line of code in there, and that is to call a another page template. Here is you code <?php require dirname( __FILE__ … Read more
There is even an example in the WordPress codex here for this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/pre_get_posts function exclude_category( $query ) { if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) { $query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-3,-8’ ); } } add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_category’ ); Just modify the category IDs (replace -3,-8 by your category IDs preceded by the minus sign) and put it in … Read more
There must be something playing with your query (using pre_get_posts) as the default in WP is to load the last created post. Use this WP_Query instead $the_query = new WP_Query( ‘posts_per_page=1&post_type=post’ ); if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) { while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) { $the_query->the_post(); ?> <h4>Posted on <?php the_time(‘F jS, Y’) ?></h4> <p><?php the_content(__(‘(more…)’)); ?></p> <?php … Read more
You would have different choices. I encourage you to use RSS. There are a lot of resources on that, you could benefit from the power of RSS which is pretty well implemented in wordpress. Or just like I said in comment look into th new JSON APIs. So basically look for codes that take the … Read more
I use the masonry way at the end of my css; /* Masonry Custom CSS for the Grid Style Blog */ /* Masonry container */ body.blog div#content, body.archive div#content { -moz-column-count: 3; -webkit-column-count: 3; column-count: 3; -moz-column-gap: 1em; -webkit-column-gap: 1em; column-gap: 1em; max-width: 100%; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; } /* Masonry bricks or child elements … Read more
You could do either pretty easily or you could create a custom post type within your current installation and then you wouldn’t have to do either and you would only have one installation to manage.