On your theme folder, open the index.php (or, home.php, or, front-page.php), and find, if there is a function named: the_content() Just change it to: the_excerpt() P.S.: If you can’t find the_content() in the mentioned file, try searching content.php, and in this case, change it with caution. Because in theme TwentyTwelve, it’s used with conditional tags … Read more
I recommend reading up on the site_url() function. Take a look here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/site_url and specifically, read the difference between: site_url() & home_url() Then you could look at parse_url() or ABSPATH as suggested before by @NickJAB
add the_permalink(); in form action value, to submit the form data. <form id=”fep-new-dog” name=”new_dog” method=”post” action=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>”>
home.php is an archive of posts, and when you view home.php and function in plugin run, (on ‘wp’ hook) there is no current post. So the function post_is_in_descendant_category call in_category($descendants, null) that can never return true if there is no current post. For this reason, you should run the plugin function on ‘the_post’ action hook, … Read more
Yes this is possible. You can use the login_redirect filter to do this. Use the code below in your active theme’s functions.php file. function my_login_redirect( $redirect_to, $request, $user ) { //is there a user to check? global $user; if( isset( $user->roles ) && is_array( $user->roles ) ) { //check for contributors if( in_array( “contributor”, $user->roles … Read more
to hide “HOME” label from wordpress navigation i use //change 105 with your home id #menu-item-105 span { display:none; } and for icon i use “Iconic Navigation” wordpress plugin
The problem of showing the thumbnail twice is because of your the_content(); which is defined in the content-page.php file that has the line the_post_thumbnail(); that will get the featured image. so intead of using the the_content() just use the get_the_content() function to get only the content without the featured image. Let me know if that … Read more
You should create a separate template for the home page and use that. Please refer to the WordPress Codex Entry on templates, as it will go more in depth than I can in this answer. You can then code the template however you would like. You can also style it however you’d like as it … Read more
Use pre_get_posts to modify the query before it is executed: function include_category( $query ) { if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) { $query->set( ‘cat’, ’17’ ); } } add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘include_category’ );
That’s because homepage.php isn’t recognized by WordPress. The correct file to use is front-page.php. See: Template Hierarchy – Front Page Display