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.
That looks like a http://para.llel.us/support/ theme. You might start there for docs—for instance, they probably have a custom ‘Theme Options’ page in the admin. Short of that, and presuming you’re ok with setting it in code (which may negate any future settings in the admin), you’ll first need to find out where $blog_query is being … Read more
PressThis bookmarklet does upload images to the wp uploads folder that you add to the article. Basically in the PressThis window go to the ‘Add’ menu and click on ‘Insert an Image’ icon. It will populate thumbnails of images found on the web page you are on. Click on the image you want to include … Read more
I don’t have a complete answer for you. But I can point out that you should use the filter hook provided in the function bp_blog_latest_post() So something like: add_filter(‘bp_get_blog_latest_post’, ‘your_function’, 1); function your_function( ) { global $blogs_template; $str = // build your string to include excerpt and thumbnail return $str; } I don’t recall if … Read more