If your really worried I would probably create custom write panels or custom meta boxes tied into custom post types. That way you can make the custom post types based on user role and control what shows up very easily. For instance you can make a custom post type called “tweens” with the user role … Read more
This plugin should help you. It ads the Excerpt Meta box to the Edit Page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-excerpts-for-wordpress-three/ Good luck!
I would take the current code you have and drop it into a page template called tpl-news.php or whatever you choose. Add the following to the header before your index.php code: <?php /* Template Name: News */ //Add your index.php code here //You can also use wp_redirect(home_url()) here as well if I misunderstood your question … Read more
If you’re trying to set a custom homepage or custom blog page template, you should go to Settings > Reading and select the page you created that uses your custom page template:
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’, $bg_options ); add_theme_support( ‘custom-header’, array ( ‘width’ => 960, ‘height’ => 200, … Read more
I fixed part of my issue by setting the “posts_per_page” => -1
Use a special category to specify what pages you want on your home page. For the sake of this example, we’ll call it “Featured”. So on each page that you want to show, just add the “Featured” category to it. Then, if you want to remove it from the home page you just un-check that … Read more
Alter the main query for the front/home page with is_front_page() and/or is_home(), like shown below: add_action(‘pre_get_posts’,’wpse104878_alter_main_query’); function wpse104878_alter_main_query($query){ if ( is_admin() || ! $query->is_main_query() ) { return; } if( $query->is_main_query() && is_front_page() || is_home() ){ $query->query_vars[‘posts_per_page’] = ‘1’; } } The archive page should work, if underscore starter theme has an template for it. You … Read more
If you want the page to display your blog posts then you need to either change the front page reading option to latest posts then use either index.php or create a new file named front-page.php. If you want your page query ordered by menu_order you need to add ‘orderby’ => ‘menu_order’ to the query.
Try the following code. Based on these two Q&A’s (not tested): How to add Custom Blog Options to new blog setup form? Programmatically set page_on_front add_action( ‘wpmu_new_blog’, ‘process_extra_field_on_blog_signup’, 10, 6 ); function process_extra_field_on_blog_signup( $blog_id, $user_id, $domain, $path, $site_id, $meta ) { switch_to_blog($blog_id); $homepage = get_page_by_title( ‘Sample Page’ ); if ( $homepage ) { update_blog_option( $blog_id, … Read more