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One post on frontpage and an archive page

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

Using page template as Static Front Page

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.

Set static page as default front page on newly created sites in multisite

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

Setting Custom WordPress “Posts page” AS “Front page”

You should be able to merely create a page with your custom template and then select it as your “static” front page. Just leave the posts page option blank if this page displays your posts anyways.

Reverse ordered pagination on home page

The default order of posts is date descending. To reverse it for home page you could hook into pre_get_posts and for is_home() query set order parameter to ASC. Note that that pages would still go from 1 ascending, they will just have posts on them in opposite order. I don’t think actually reversing order of … Read more

Fix Pagination Directory on a page set as Front Page/Main Page [duplicate]

This is perfectly normal. When you set a page as front page WordPress thinks that you want to use the home url for it. Said that, the url for your calientes page will be your home url (http://domain.com). Now, front pages are not intened to use pagination, so if you put /page/{number} on a fron … Read more

URL of blog when using index.php as blog and front-page.php as homepage

Follow instruction for Creating a Static Front Page in Codex. The URL of your blog posts index will be derived from a page you use for “posts page”.

adsense code showing on random post thumb

Bit hard to understand exactly what you want to do as the grammar isn’t the best but i assume you want to return false for your Adsense widgets (using the code you linked to) when random posts thumbnail” plugin executes? You could add a check for the function your random posts thumbnail plugin uses so … Read more

When Front page and Posts page are specified is it possible to just have front-page.php as the home page?

For WordPress to automatically use home.php to render your home page you have to set Settings > Reading > Home Page Displays to “Your latest posts” With that option set WordPress looks to use home.php first, and then index.php (in that order) to output your home page. Read more here.

3 x 3 grid of posts on the home page

The easiest way to achieve this would be to use a custom post type. This way, these posts won’t show up as custom post types by default are excluded from the main query. You can just then create your page and create a custom query with WP_Query to pull in this 9 posts 1. CREATE … Read more

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