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Can you call a template file without assigning template to a page in the admin panel?

You can hook into template_redirect like this: function custom_template_redirect() { global $wp; if ($wp->query_vars[‘pagename’] == ‘my-page-slug’) { // check the page slug status_header(200); // a 404 code will not be returned in the HTTP headers if the page does not exists include(TEMPLATEPATH . “/test.php”); // include the corresponding template die(); } } add_action( ‘template_redirect’, ‘custom_template_redirect’ … Read more

wp_title() handling of author page

I see my name in the title when viewing author pages. wp_title() runs this code during execution.. // If there’s an author if ( is_author() ) { $author = get_queried_object(); $title = $author->display_name; } Perhaps your author(s) don’t have a display name set? Additionally be sure to try disabling plugins that may be hooking a … Read more

Help with a custom page template – listing contents of childpages?

You would need to create a page template and query those pages directly. $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘page’, ‘post__in’ => array(430,436,433), //The Page IDs you want to query ‘order’ => ‘ASC’ ); $page_query = new WP_Query($args); If you wanted to do this automatically and get the child pages of the current page you could … Read more

How to override Category rendering mechanism

if you can use template_redirect hook and a simple function to set the template to use add_action( ‘template_redirect’, ‘category_set_redirect’ ); function category_set_redirect(){ //create the sets of categories $first_set= array(“1″,”2″,”3″,”4″,”5″,”6”); $second_set= array(“7″,”8″,”9″,”10″,”11″,”12”); if (is_category()){ if (in_array(get_query_var(‘cat’),$first_set)){ include(TEMPLATEPATH . “/first_category.php”); // include the corresponding template die(); } if (in_array(get_query_var(‘cat’),$second_set)){ include(TEMPLATEPATH . “/second_category.php”); // include the corresponding template … Read more

Control Custom Post Type template from a plugin

I have got it working by the following code: add_action( ‘template_redirect’, ‘ft_job_cpt_template’ ); function ft_job_cpt_template() { global $wp, $wp_query; if ( isset( $wp->query_vars[‘post_type’] ) && $wp->query_vars[‘post_type’] == ‘job’ ) { if ( have_posts() ) { add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘ft_job_cpt_template_filter’ ); } else { $wp_query->is_404 = true; } } } function ft_job_cpt_template_filter( $content ) { global $wp_query; … Read more

How to move style from template file to section?

What about putting styles before the function get_header(); <style type=”text/css”>#header { display: none; }</style> <?php get_header();?> <div class=”main-container-of-my-template”></div> <?php get_footer(); ?> However this is not recommended as it loads the styles even before the <html> not within the <head> section of your website, but as per your requirement this could be the only way to … Read more

How to make certain page templates visible to admin only

Rather than defining them as custom page templates, you have an alternative. Use the page specific templates, e.g. for a profile page, with the slug profile you could create a page-profile.php in your theme, or you can use page-21.php where 21 is the ID of that page/post.

What are the differences between “Latest Posts” and “Static Page”?

Conditional Tags The is_front_page() Conditional Tag returns true if you’re on the Front Page (index.php as fallback or front-page.php). The is_home() Conditional Tag returns true if you’re on the Front Page, when you got no static page set as front page, or when you got a static front page and display the Posts Page (home.php … Read more

Use is_category(), is_tag(), … in functions.php

Your problem is that you didn’t wrap it in a callback, but executed it immediately when functions.php was loaded by core. By then the global $wp_query object isn’t initialized fully and the is_category() etc. wrappers can’t deliver what you are expecting them to do. So your if/else checks should be moved inside the callback like … Read more

Programmatically set page template based on page ID

I needed to do something very similar for one of the plugins that I was developing. I registered two separate cpt’s during plugin activation, and each of those cpt’s should use a custom single template that I had bundled with the plugin code base. You should be able to do the same for page templates, … Read more

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