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Custom background for the index page only?

You can check in your callback function if you are an the front page. Sample code for the theme’s functions.php: add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘wpse_67480_theme_setup’ ); function wpse_67480_theme_setup() { $bg_options = array ( ‘wp-head-callback’ => ‘wpse_67480_background_frontend’, ‘default-color’ => ‘f0f0f0’, ‘default-image’ => ”, ); add_theme_support( ‘custom-background’, $bg_options ); add_theme_support( ‘custom-header’, array ( ‘width’ => 960, ‘height’ => 200, … Read more

Add Adsense code in index.php

Here is a slight variation of my other answer. First we register two new widget areas, sidebars in WordPress-speak. add_action( ‘widgets_init’, ‘wpse_84250_register_ad_widgets’ ); function wpse_84250_register_ad_widgets() { // used on the first page of main loop only register_sidebar( array ( ‘name’ => ‘Ad Widget 1’, ‘id’ => ‘ad_widget_1’, ‘before_widget’ => ‘<div class=”frontpage-ads”>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</div>’ ) … Read more

How to create custom home page via plugin?

An Active Plugin To make an active plugin, use the following resources: WordPress Codex: Writing a Plugin WordPress Essentials: How To Create A WordPress Plugin by Daniel Pataki From the following StackExchange thread, try to understand what are the Hooks and what are things acting behind a plugin: How to edit a wordpress plugin without … Read more

front-page.php stylesheet

How to load a custom stylesheet for your Front Page Set up front-page.php (which you’ve done already). Create a stylesheet for your front page (you can copy style.css, but more likely, you’ll just want to override a few things). Let’s call it front-page-style.css. View the HTML source of one of your pages, and find the … Read more

How do I set the front page programmatically?

If you manually enter the admin URL wp-admin/options.php you’ll see a list of all options and their values. show_on_front is page when a page is selected to show on front. page_on_front and page_for_posts are 0 when no pages are chosen. You can use update_option to change these values, there is no set_option function.

Static page homepage not showing the_content

You don’t really have a Loop. <?php get_header(); ?> <div class=”content”> <div class=”welcome_area”> <div class=”welcome_area_title”><?php the_title(”);?></div> <div class=”welcome_area_text”><?php if (have_posts()) { while (have_posts()) { the_post(); the_content(); } } ?> What is happening is: You use have_posts() to check that you have post content. You can use an else clause to provide default content if you … Read more

How do I show sticky posts on a static front page that also contains content?

Something like this should work: $sticky = get_option( ‘sticky_posts’ ); if ( !empty( $sticky ) ) { // don’t show anything if there are no sticky posts $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, // show all sticky posts ‘post__in’ => $sticky, ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => 1 ); $query = new WP_Query( $args ); if ( $query->have_posts() ) … Read more

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