How to Make my Homepage Display a Single Specific Post?

The simplest way is to go to Settings > Reading and choose “Your homepage displays” – “a static page.” That will give you a dropdown so you can choose the specific WP Page you want to display. Other options include creating a child theme or a custom theme, or in functions.php using pre_get_posts() to modify … Read more

Custom Post Type Single Page and Archive Page redirects to Home Page

After hours of debugging I noticed that the problem was only reproduced when I used the library. Even if I used register_post_type, if I used any other functionality from the library before the register_post_type function call, it would cause some erratic behaviour. I opted on removing PostTypes from my project and simply sticking to register_post_type … Read more

Link to index.php from home.php?

You can’t link between templates. Not directly. The template files are just the files that WordPress will use to render the posts it’s found, based on the URL. You can see how WordPress decides which template to load under which circumstances in the Template Hierarchy. So to solve this issue we need to determine when … Read more