If you want to replace the theme home page, you cannot use wp_head hook: it is called from a theme file (usually header.php) so you can’t replace something that is already included. I suggest you to create a php file that contain your custom home page, and put it in a plugin folder. This file, … Read more
Create a child theme for your current theme. Read how to here. After that create a file in your child theme named front-page.php. This is the first file WordPress will look for when you visit the home page of your site. To understand why, read here. In that file use: <?php get_header(); $all_pages = get_pages(); … Read more
You can get the ID of the front page via get_option( ‘page_on_front’ ). (See also: WordPress option reference.) From there, you can query the page object via get_post(): $frontpage = get_post( get_option( ‘page_on_front’ ) ); Then the content is in the $frontpage object: $content = $frontpage->post_content;
You have to reset every instance of a custom query, otherwise you will get unexpected output from any other query there after Simply use wp_reset_postdata() after every custom query. Example <?php $args = array( ‘numberposts’ => ‘1’, ‘meta_key’=>’_thumbnail_id’ ); $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( $args ); foreach($recent_posts as $post) : ?> <?php get_template_part( ‘content’, ” ); ?> … Read more
It sounds as though you are confusing multiple issues. If you created front-page.php, added your content and made the settings in WP for this to display as the front page, then that part of your question is answered. If the login form and slider are not working on that template, you have a separate challenge … Read more
Use the page number to calculate a new date to get the week to fetch: $page = ( get_query_var( ‘paged’ ) ) ? get_query_var( ‘paged’ ) : 1; $date_to_fetch = time() – ( 604800 * ( $page – 1 ) ) ); $query_string = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘date_query’ => array( array( ‘year’ => date( … Read more
You have this all wrong 🙂 blog.example.com is page one blog.example.com/page/3 is page number 3 of blog.example.com So this not a new page, but a paged page. By default, this all pages in a paged sequence will use the same template as the first page
Go to Settings -> Reading -> Front Page Displays. Set it to Static Page and choose your Home from the drop-down.
The is_home() conditional tag applies to the posts page according to your reading settings or home.php file as opposed to the is_front_page() conditional which applies to the page on front according to your reading settings or your front-page.php file, if it exists. Try changing is_home() to is_front_page() As for another possible problem might be, take … Read more
The loop in a page loads only the content of the page. Thus you see only one post. You have to set up a “Page of Posts”. You can find basic examples in the codex at Page Templates. But using it as static front page results in some problems. The links to follow pages will … Read more