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 $wp_query. Here is how. In your theme’s functions.php you can add these functions to show 7 posts on first page, and 9 posts on any other page. Okay, that code works so far but you’ll … Read more
I got the solution so self-answering the question for future users/visitors. Hope it will help someone. I think this won’t be able to generate results based on the Post ID → the_post_thumbnail( ‘large’); However, this should work → <?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($fpid, ‘large’); ?> (Above is succesfully tested) Other possibilities → <?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($fpid, ‘thumbnail’); ?> … Read more
Found and combined some code that seems to work for categories. So leaving the code if somebody else runs into the same problem. For reference. – Filter all queries with a specific taxonomy – Adding Custom User Profile data based upon Categories The below allows a user to choose categories on this profile, after which … Read more
Just name the landing page file index.html and place it (and any assets) in the root directory, then add this to your .htaccess (assuming you’re using Apache): DirectoryIndex index.html index.php When accessing http://example.com, Apache will serve index.html. WordPress will scoop up all other requests with it’s rewrite rules.