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How to display recent posts on home page with title, post date, author and featured image?

The functions you are looking for, are: the_post_thumbnail_url(); // For featured image the_author(); // For author name get_author_posts_url(); // For author link the_date(); // For post’s date So, your code should be something like this: <div class=”cs-post-carousel-layout”> <div class=”cs-container swiper-container”> <div class=”swiper-wrapper”><?php // define query arguments $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 5, // your ‘x’ … Read more

How to filter homepage posts by popularity? [closed]

First thing we need to do is create a function that will detect post views count and store it as a custom field for each post. To do this, paste the following codes in your theme’s functions.php file function wpb_set_post_views($postID) { $count_key = ‘wpb_post_views_count’; $count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true); if($count==”){ $count = 0; delete_post_meta($postID, $count_key); … Read more

What is the advantage of using home.php over index.php for the front page

If you look here [is_home vs is_front_page] you’ll see that is_front_page() is true regardless of what the homepage is set to in the WordPress settings. This means that if you don’t plan on releasing this publicly (i.e. short-run usage) then just having a front-page.php should suffice. is_home() is set based on your blogs page (which … Read more

How to have more post in a page than in your home page

I would recommend creating a custom template and utilize a custom query to do this. This is because changing the maximum posts to any number will affect every page that has a list of posts unless you specify otherwise. By making your own query you can set the number of posts you want by using … Read more

How to replace text in hompage only

the_content(Read more …’) echoes the stuff straight out so you can’t modify it with str_replace after the fact. If you wanna use str_replace you need to do something along the lines of $content = get_the_content( ‘Read more …’ ); $content = apply_filters( ‘the_content’, $content ); $content = str_replace( ‘]]>’, ‘]]>’, $content ); $content = str_replace( … Read more

I want Page titles and excerpts to show up on home.php in certain order

Unless you have a particular reason to have meta box order values , that would be overkill. Instead ditch the excerpt for pages, and add a meta box called “intro_content” (or whatever). Then in a home.php query you can easily grab this info and order it however you want using html. For instance: // replace … Read more

Allow users to edit home page from WordPress (home.php problems)

First, do not use home.php for this purpose. It is a reserved template file name, and is used to display the Blog Posts Index. Your best option is probably to create a front-page.php template file, and make the output Widget-based, so that users can modify the display via Dashboard -> Appearance -> Widgets.

How to exclude my home page from url of my internal pages?

What @iampearce said is basically right, but to be a bit more specific: look in Settings > Pewrmalinks. Choose one of the defaults – maybe %year%/%postname% – and click Save. Does that help? If that doesn’t fix it, look in Settings > Reading and check that the “front page” and the “posts page” are not … Read more

Duplicate homepage to show posts from 1 category

This should help you, the second diagram… this one. Just copy the index.php code to the properly named category-*.php file and see if it works.

Installing Google analytics to home page

This depends on your theme. Most themes have a call the wp_footer hook at the bottom of every page – which means it’s at the bottom of every single post, every single page, and the home page. Rather than editing all of your theme files to include your tracking code, use a plugin that ties … Read more

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