I experienced an issue similar to this several months ago. I was using a plugin to kill query strings from the URL for SEO purposes. Long story short the plugin was killing search pages and admin pages as well. As Chris_O mentioned the redirection plugin I encountered a similar redirection issue when track modify posts … Read more
You do need to run a custom query for your second loop. You can simply adjust the main query to your needs. It is always never a good idea to run custom queries in place of the main query. One big issue is always pagination, WordPress disregards all other queries, and only focus on the … Read more
About your considerations:- Yes true! It will update the page on every visit. The database will be updated more frequently based on which user making a request. But there will be no incorrect output. The better way I suggest using a template_include filter. Assign a static front page then apply the template to that page … Read more
I’m guessing the terminology is different but here are a few links to look at http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page Basically – save your custom page as custom-page-template.php in your theme folder – create a new page from WordPress Menu – choose your custom-page from the template drop down on the add new page page – Save and View … Read more
Register a widget, and call it on the front-page when the the_post action is called second time: add_action( ‘wp_loaded’, ‘wpse_80202_register_banner_widget’ ); function wpse_80202_register_banner_widget() { // used on the first page of main loop only register_sidebar( array ( ‘name’ => ‘Banner front-page ‘, ‘id’ => ‘frontpage_banner’, ‘before_widget’ => ‘<div class=”frontpage-banner”>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</div>’ ) ); } … Read more
The »Template Hierarchy« doesn’t allow this per default. Inside your single.php template, you can call load_template(). This will allow you to simply include the template you need, based on the in_category() conditional tag. // inside single.php if ( in_category( ‘foo’ ) ) { load_template( get_stylesheet_directory().’foo_template.php’ ); } elseif ( in_category( ‘bar’ ) ) { load_template( … Read more
Here is a slight variation of my other answer. First we register two new widget areas, sidebars in WordPress-speak. add_action( ‘widgets_init’, ‘wpse_84250_register_ad_widgets’ ); function wpse_84250_register_ad_widgets() { // used on the first page of main loop only register_sidebar( array ( ‘name’ => ‘Ad Widget 1’, ‘id’ => ‘ad_widget_1’, ‘before_widget’ => ‘<div class=”frontpage-ads”>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</div>’ ) … Read more
To change the site Front Page to be a static Page: Go to Dashboard -> Settings -> Reading Change Front page displays from Your latest posts to A static page In the dropdown beneath this option, select the static Page to use as your Front Page. If you want to display your blog Posts somewhere, … Read more
Okay. I took a look at your site. You seem to using categories to show wedding, portraits, events and blog. I’m going to assume that you do not want the other posts of these categories to appear in your blog. So, the use of category would be appropriate. Here’s how I would do it. 1. … Read more
Ok this was really tricky. I have so far managed to work around it by lying to the WordPress global $wp_query. Here is how. In your theme’s functions.php you can add these functions to show 7 posts on first page, and 9 posts on any other page. Okay, that code works so far but you’ll … Read more