First, Explaining Loops You’re dealing with two kinds of “loops.” The first is a loop in PHP, the second is a loop in WordPress. Loop in PHP kaiser gave you some code that will generate a list of authors on your site. You can iterate through this list and print information on the screen. // … Read more
In regard to WordPress post paged, I would use /player-12345 or other structure as url specific page rather than /player/12345. How to create new url structure for page Creating additional url structure, you need WP_Rewrite, there are a couple of filters that you can fire with your function. For Page, you can filter page_rewrite_rules. See … Read more
I think you will want to use the wp_title filter. Add the following to functions.php: function wpse62415_filter_wp_title( $title ) { // Return a custom document title for // the boat details custom page template if ( is_page_template( ‘boatDetails.php’ ) ) { return ‘I\’m the boat details page’; } // Otherwise, don’t modify the document title … 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
No, don’t hardcode the ID’s for pages in your CSS. You might want to use the same styles elsewhere, or if the stylesheet is cached for users, they might not immediately see your changes you push up if you don’t version the stylesheet. Not only that it makes deciphering your styles just that much harder … Read more
An Active Plugin To make an active plugin, use the following resources: WordPress Codex: Writing a Plugin WordPress Essentials: How To Create A WordPress Plugin by Daniel Pataki From the following StackExchange thread, try to understand what are the Hooks and what are things acting behind a plugin: How to edit a wordpress plugin without … Read more
You probably don’t set the $paged variable correctly. Try to rewrite your code like this: $paged = get_query_var( ‘paged’ ) ? get_query_var( ‘paged’ ) : 1; $loop = new WP_Query( “post_type=$post_type&paged=$paged” );
Use a conditional tag: Codex References: Function Reference (is_page) Function Reference (Conditional Tags) You can specify the landing page by Page ID, Page Title or Page Slug. Here is an example: <?php if ( !is_page( ‘landing-page’ ) ) { wp_nav_menu( array( ‘show_home’ => ‘Home’, ‘container’ => ‘false’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘main’) ); } endif; ?> It … Read more
You can certainly use Page Templates for that. They’re a specific type of template file that can be applied to a specific page or groups of pages. Plus, they can be stored in sub folders. All you need is to put something like this at the top of the template files: /** * Template Name: … Read more
You have to flush your permalinks after you register these things. There are ways to do that automatically but the quick and dirty way is to browse to wp-admin->Settings->Permalinks and click “Save Changes”. That will work fine if this is your site and you aren’t distributing a plugin. If this is a plugin (which it … Read more