Add meta tags with a plugin?
For anyone using Thematic, the thematic_create_description() filter worked nicely.
homepage
how to show the most viewed, random and recent posts in the home?
I’ve implemented this before with custom queries and widgets. You have to be tracking all of these stats, of course, but if you are, it’s a rather simple matter to build a widget that displays it and drop it in. If you’re not using widgets, you can do the same, it will just take a … Read more
How to create a language selection homepage? [closed]
The absolute best plug in for this is WordPress Multi Lingual (WPML). I have used this on multiple sites, it works like a charm!.. and it provides excellent documentation for custom theme builders 🙂 Are you using a free theme? a paid premium theme? or are you building you own theme? If you are building … Read more
Registration Page
Solved this, all it is is a missing define( ‘NOBLOGREDIRECT’, ‘http://www.domain.com’ ); from wp-config.php
blog page showing as home/landing page despite template change and reading settings
You should read up on the template hierarchy. page.php is automatically used for all static page. It should NOT have a “Template Name” header in it. home.php is for styling your BLOG page. It should have a loop that can handle multiple articles. front-page.php is for styling static home pages. index.php is the fallback template … Read more
Issue with custom plugin
Your plugin just creates a widget, you won’t see anything else in the Dashboard. If you drag the widget into a widget area, you’ll see all of the options to configure it. one other issue you will potentially have is the way you’re including javascript for your widget. if you use this with another plugin … Read more
rename index or homepage
You’re creating a loop that you can’t break out of … I think what you are saying is you want a visitor to go to domain1.com/index.html and then choose to go to domain1.com/index.php (WordPress CMS) or domain2.com/index.php Static Homepage in WordPress You’re best off to create a Static Homepage in WordPress and have links on … Read more
Home page loop with pagination problem
When you navigate to page 3-5, does the page shows page not found on the heading of the browser? Is it just a empty div or is it 404 page? Try to set the number of posts to be shown in reading setting of your admin less than 10 or less then post per page … Read more
Adding if statement to content for homepage
Check for is_front_page() and if you want to catch the first page only inspect get_query_var( ‘paged’ ) too: if ( is_front_page() and 2 > get_query_var( ‘paged’ ) ) { // we are on the first page of the front page }
Custom Post Types and 404 Pages
If I understand what you are doing… If you have categories set to load at “/category-name/” and a category named “/movies/” and a custom post type set to load at “/movies/” you’ve got conflicting elements. The rewrite rules are competing. That is going to be problematic. If you set has_archive to false when you register … Read more