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.
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
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
After detailed debugging of WP::parse_request() and WP_Query::parse_query() I found out that unset( $query_vars[‘date’] ); in ‘request’ filter helps. It basically unsets date query var before WP_Query::parse_query() is invoked so is_home() returns false. add_filter( ‘request’, function( $query_vars ) { global $wp_query, $wp; if ( ! $wp_query->is_main_query() ) { return $query_vars; } $qv_keys = array_keys( $wp->query_vars ); … Read more
Front page template logic is horrendous legacy mess. While back I wrote a very thorough front page cheatsheet, I still can’t completely remember how it works. You are right to notice that theme in your case doesn’t behave in same way as other themes typically do. If you run down specific template being used (plugin … Read more
If I’m understanding you correctly, you want to show only the most recent sticky post only on the front page. I had the same issue a month or two ago, and got some fantastic help from the community here at WordPress Answers. The solution is to run two loops in your index.php file. One to … Read more
Try adding this code to functions.php file: add_action(‘pre_get_posts’, ‘ad_filter_categories’); function ad_filter_categories($query) { if ($query->is_main_query() && is_home()) { $query->set(‘category_name’,’news, uncategorized’); } } category_name is the slug or the nicename of the category. Add a comma separated list of the categories you wish to include.
Fast ‘n’ Hacky The problem can be solved by changing line 319 in facebook.php to the following: if (is_home()) { This way, the front page is not treated as a home page but as a regular page, for which the facebook feature settings can be applied (and will be handled correctly). More Elegant/Complex Here is … Read more
The redirect is thanks to redirect_canonical() – we can simply swoop in with a filter and disable it for the front page: function wpse_184163_disable_canonical_front_page( $redirect ) { if ( is_page() && $front_page = get_option( ‘page_on_front’ ) ) { if ( is_page( $front_page ) ) $redirect = false; } return $redirect; } add_filter( ‘redirect_canonical’, ‘wpse_184163_disable_canonical_front_page’ ); … Read more
So if you’ve registered a CPT called wpse_242473_custom_post_type you can use this to put 6 recent posts of that type onto your static front page (or anywhere). You can use a shortcode or a template tag and the function should work for both. It’s a modification of some code I use in a lot of … Read more