Ok I just found a solution..went to my wordpress dashboard>appaearnce>menu. Selected menu to edit, then I went to the homepage item on the menu> custo m link…Then I found the problem, changed the address there from localhost/ to my website address. Well a newbie like me just learnt something new. More power to this forums. … Read more
Sounds like your permalinks could possibly be jumbled. Have you tried resaving your permalinks and seeing if the problem persists? Settings > Permalinks and just click “Save Changes.”
Home, in your menu, should never point to a physical ( created by you ) page. Its meaning is simple – URL of your domain ( eg. http://example.com or https://example.com ). Remove Home from your menu. Add Home to the menu as Custom Link, with URL = ‘/‘ and Navigation Label=”Home“. You’re saying that your … Read more
You can create or modify front-page.php or you can create a page template that displays the latest post and then create an empty page (it can have content of you wish, remember to display the content in your template if so) and select that page template. In case of the latter, name it according to … Read more
There are a few methods to accommplish this goal. Easiest in my humble opinion is to do a HTACCESS Redirect such as Redirect 301 / http://conradbowenrealestate.com/homes-for-sale-search/ Another method would be to use the wp_redirect function as shown in the codex add a new function and include a code snippet like the one below to your … Read more
Is there a universal slug for static homepage?
My blog index page shows the last post as a title?
The homepage template depends on two things: What the “Front page displays” setting has been set to. Which files exist in the theme. The WordPress Template Hierarchy shows how WordPress decides which theme file to use.
$query->is_home() is not, well, ‘home’. $query->is_home() checks of you are viewing the blog/posts page. It’s an artifact from when the home page of WordPress sites was invariably the blog. You want to change that to $query->is_front_page(), which checks if the front page of the website is a page, and if you are on that page.
For those who wants to achieve the same, here is the answer: First we declare a variable with a simple condition to hold our GET request, if the value is not set than we define default value. $layout = isset( $_GET[‘home_layout’] ) ? $_GET[‘home_layout’] : ‘standard’; Then simply check the condition and load the template … Read more