Add the following to your .htaccess, in between the <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>: RedirectMatch 301 /home /homepage Redirect 301 / /homepage However, as Omar suggested, you can change your homepage through your [dashboard] by doing the following: Go to Settings > Reading Under Front page displays, select A static page (select below) Next to Front page: select … Read more
There are two possible settings for this in WordPress. Option A Your front page (http://twistedtalesoftimmy.com/) is dynamic and shows the latest blog posts. Option B Your front page (http://twistedtalesoftimmy.com/) is static and points to a regular page in WordPress. There is another page (e.g. http://twistedtalesoftimmy.com/blog/) that shows the latest blog posts. You can switch between … Read more
Add the following to your .htaccess file: # Custom default index page DirectoryIndex ./wp-login.php That should work.
Look somewhere after the “Loop” starts (it starts with <?php while( have_posts() ): the_post(); ?>) in your index.php file. Find <?php the_content(); ?> and change it to <?php the_excerpt(); ?>. If you don’t want any content, just remove the_content() all together. If you’re using a theme from wordpress.org, it would best to do this in … Read more
To add a home link to menus that you create via the menus admin area: go to the Pages box, click the ‘View All’ tab ‘Home’ will appear, check the box and click ‘add to menu’
Yes of course. One of the ways to achieve this is by adding an extra category to your posts which you call ‘sticky’ or ‘important’ or something like that. For the example I will choose ‘important’. To only get the important posts you can write a loop which loops through this category. For example: <?php … Read more
I believe the page is truncated due to a fatal error. Look for an error log file in the wp directory or add the following line to wp-config.php to hopefully see the error text: define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, true );
<div id=”posts”> <?php // define query arguments $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 8, // your ‘x’ goes here ‘nopaging’ = true // possibly more arguments here ); // set up new query $tyler_query = new WP_Query( $args ); // loop through found posts while ( $tyler_query->have_posts() ) : $tyler_query->the_post(); echo ‘<section class=”post”>’. ‘<h2><a href=”‘. get_permalink(). … Read more
The modern way would be to use html5 which does support geolocation: simple demo A bit longer explanation how this could be added to a web-app here A nice php script that uses a web service called geoplugin (the api is nice, no idea about the company, ymmv!) And last but not least, using the … Read more
I would use the is_paged() conditional inside index.php to load two separate templates containing your layouts. Something like this: if ( is_paged() ): get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘first-page’ ); else: get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘paged’ ); endif; Assuming you have two templates, content-first-page.php and content-paged.php. Edit: If you just want a different template for part of your index page, … Read more