There are two possible settings for this in WordPress. Option A Your front page (http://twistedtalesoftimmy.com/) is dynamic and shows the latest blog posts. Option B Your front page (http://twistedtalesoftimmy.com/) is static and points to a regular page in WordPress. There is another page (e.g. http://twistedtalesoftimmy.com/blog/) that shows the latest blog posts. You can switch between … Read more
If you just want to add a character counter for your excerpt, use this function and js. The Php for your functions.php // This goes in your functions.php file inside your themes folder // Add theme support for post formats add_theme_support( ‘post-formats’, array( ‘aside’, ‘status’ ) ); // Add the character counter to the admin … Read more
WordPress 5.7 introduces a new helper function to more easily fetch the parent post’s ID: get_post_parent() This can also be used in conjunction with has_post_parent(), so you could have something like looks like: <?php if ( has_post_parent() ) : ?> <a href=”<?php the_permalink( get_post_parent() ); ?>”> <?php echo sprintf( esc_html__( ‘Back to parent page: %s’, … Read more
You have custom filter in a plugin or in your theme that is messing with WP_Query. Your issue is that something is setting is_home to false. This is not default behavior, by default, is_home should return true in any custom instance of WP_Query. is_home is one of the contributing factors which is responsible for setting … Read more
For anyone wondering, as custom excerpts don’t get trimmed by the excerpt_length filter hook, try adding this filter: function trim_custom_excerpt($excerpt) { if (has_excerpt()) { $excerpt = wp_trim_words(get_the_excerpt(), apply_filters(“excerpt_length”, 55)); } return $excerpt; } add_filter(“the_excerpt”, “trim_custom_excerpt”, 999);
So the easiest way to do this would be to store the ID of the first post (1) then in each of your category loops you can use the post__not_in property like so: // inside the first loop at the top. $latest_post_id = get_the_ID(); // WP_Query for fetching each category $category_query = new WP_Query( [ … Read more
Pre WP 4.9 if( ! function_exists( ‘fix_no_editor_on_posts_page’ ) ) { /** * Add the wp-editor back into WordPress after it was removed in 4.2.2. * * @param Object $post * @return void */ function fix_no_editor_on_posts_page( $post ) { if( isset( $post ) && $post->ID != get_option(‘page_for_posts’) ) { return; } remove_action( ‘edit_form_after_title’, ‘_wp_posts_page_notice’ ); add_post_type_support( … Read more
I’m pretty sure that is_singular() is going to return false when you are inside the WP loop, since there are more than one posts being looped through. Try is_single() or just look at the post object and examine the post_type attribute. add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘_some_func’, 15 ); function _some_func( $content ) { if( __check_paragraph_count_blog( $content ) … Read more
Do a search through your theme’s entire directory for the functions “is_home()” and “is_front_page()”. The only thing I can think of is that there’s a function written somewhere that makes the front page have 8 posts no matter how many posts are set per page on the rest of the blog.
If you transform your main website’s WordPress into a multi-site environment, you can move blog.yourdomain.com to be a network site. Once you do this, you could use the Multisite Global Search plugin to add a widget that searches all network sites. It would be easy to move your standalone blog.yourwebsite.com to a network site: export … Read more