I think you have a bit of mixing up in different purposes to file includes, which are normally separated in modern PHP development: definitions and runtime code. Definitions Files that include definitions (such as classes and functions) should not contain runtime (immediately executing) code. That makes safe them to include early (quite optimized operation in … Read more
Personally, I build everything within index.php of each template. I then do conditional checks. Example: if(is_front_page()){ // Home page layout } elseif(is_page()){ // General page layout if(is_page(‘contact’)){ // Page layout specific to the contact page } elseif(is_page(‘about’)){ // Page layout specific to the about page } } Read more on conditional tags.
My issue was research was not using page-research.php but instead using archive.php I resolved it not by the “Static Pages and Custom Post Types cannot have the same slug” solution, but on the dashboard in Settings -> Permalinks. It was on “Day and name” and I changed it to “Numeric” and the research page loaded … Read more
Your question got me thinking about extending your use-case to a plugin I published earlier called WP Boilerplate Shortcode. I know your question isn’t about shortcodes but the name is only legacy for your use-case; indeed my extension I just added because of your question will do (almost) exactly what you are asking for (I’ll … Read more
I use Bill Erickson’s custom meta boxes or plugin like Secondary HTML Content (probably the easiest solution)
You can filter wp_nav_menu_objects and add a new item. Here is a simple plugin doing that: <?php # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- /** * Plugin Name: Latest Post In Menu * Description: Append a link to the latest post to all nav menus called with the argument <code>’add_latest_post’ => TRUE</code>. * Plugin URI: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/q/59892/73 * … Read more
First of all, you ned a function (template tag) to display the url. You can write a custom function that output the url in the format you want, however, putting the username in a public url can be a security issue. The function can handle the link and accept an argument $user that can be … Read more
wp_nav_menu has the argument fallback_cb, which is the function called if a menu doesn’t exist. This is set to wp_page_menu by default, which is why you see a list of pages if the menu doesn’t exist. If you explicitly set that to false, then nothing will be output if the menu doesn’t exist. EDIT- Given … Read more
I thought I would provide you with another approach. It is also a bit hackish, but it is general purpose and allows you to simply register the filename and label that you want to use, like so: if ( class_exists( ‘WPSE_196995_Page_Templates’ ) ) { WPSE_196995_Page_Templates::register_page_template( ‘My Page Template’, ‘my-page-template.php’ ); } You could add the … Read more
WordPress core (as expressed by involved people on multiple occasions) strongly discourages sort by terms. It sees terms as exclusively grouping mechanism, with no ordering capabilities implied. So in your specific case WP would understand that there are different directors, that there are groups of shows done by those directors, but won’t at all understand … Read more