So, In your place I would go for Dynamic Sidebars because of the control over Widgets is much more easily achieved. But if you still want use WordPress Navigation Menus to do it, to control the output the way you want you need to extend the Class Walker_Nav_Menu, take a look at a usage for … Read more
how to show the full post: http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More#More_about_.24more I want all the things I get in single.php possibly copy all the code from within the loop of single.php into the loop of your random post. my custom code … doesn’t work in index the in_category() code might only work within the loop or needs refining – … Read more
You can add this code to a new file named wpsites.php and then use the template tag directly in any file or hook it in using a custom function with theme specific or WordPress hooks. Note: All code can be used in a child theme. <?php // Your Custom Query Arguments $args = array( ‘category__not_in’ … Read more
You can set static home page from Admin -> Settings -> Reading. Check WordPress codex page for more detailed information. http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
new WPAlchemy_MetaBox(array ( ‘id’ => ‘_custom_meta’, ‘title’ => ‘My Custom Meta’, ‘template’ => STYLESHEETPATH . ‘/custom/meta.php’, ‘exclude_template’ => ‘product.php’ )); the ‘exclude_template’ would work for excluding the one’s you didn’t want. new WPAlchemy_MetaBox(array ( ‘id’ => ‘_custom_meta’, ‘title’ => ‘My Custom Meta’, ‘template’ => STYLESHEETPATH . ‘/custom/meta.php’, ‘include_template’ => array(‘product.php’,’press.php’) // use an array for … Read more
On archive pages like a blog home page the the_excerpt() is used normally. As the name says it shows just a snippet from your post. Most content filters are not applied to the excerpt, they work on the_content() only. Fix: change your template, replace the_excerpt() with the_content() in archive pages.
1) use posts_per_page to set number of posts 2) your add_action and its associated function needs to be in your theme’s functions.php file, not the template. the pre_get_posts action is the preferred method between the two, use that one.
As mentioned in the comments, you want to replace your home page with a static front page under Settings > Reading. Then you’ll create a new page and set it as your posts page in the same setting. The slug of that new page then determines the URL of the posts page.
You’re not looking at “different types of posts,” you’re looking at post formats. The format types are standardized in core (i.e. video, photo, default), but the presentation of these formats is 100% up to the theme. That is, there is no “WordPress-approved manner” or standard for presenting previews of post formats. There are, however, great … Read more
Use multisite. Enable the WordPress Network and host the home page on the primary site and all the other content on a single subsite (or many subsites).