I think your options are to actually use custom fields, but you can make them user friendly. The header is relatively simple, you can even have a preview or a selection of images to choose from, have a look at how the default twentyten theme enables header options, very user friendly, no urls are used … Read more
the problem is you never call the content!!! change your dashboard.php to something like this <?php /* Template Name: User Dashboard */ ?> <?php get_header(); ?> <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> <div id=”content” role=”main”> <?php the_content(); ?> </div><!– #content –> <?php endwhile; else: ?> <p><?php _e(‘Sorry, no … Read more
Here’s a random thought. query for ALL pages, but exclude the parents. Something like this maybe? query_posts( array( ‘post__not_in’ => array( 2, 5, 12, 14, 20 ) , ‘post_type’ => ‘page’, ‘orderby’ => ‘rand’ , ‘posts_per_page’ => ‘3’ ) );
if you want to exclude categories then you do need to create a custom query something like this: $page = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1; query_posts( array( ‘category__not_in’ => array( 2, 6 ) , ‘paged’ => $page ) ); just above the loop and change 2 , 6 to the category ids which you want … Read more
Search all your theme and plugin files for: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN” Disable all plugins and re-enable them step by step. This document type declaration is not part of WordPress’ core files; there is a filter active somewhere. Update Try to remove all filters from the affected functions. Start with wp_list_pages(): remove_all_filters( … Read more
If the code you posted above is all of your file contents then Yes you are missing something! you just created a new page template but it’s empty, you need to tell WordPress what to display, and usually its done using the loop and a few other template tags add this code to you a.php … Read more
This: html .page-template-showreel-php { overflow: hidden; } …will target body.page-template-showreel-php. So, two questions: Do you have the <?php body_class(); ?> template tag inside of the <body> HTML tag? Is hiding overflow on the <body> tag really what you’re after, or do you need to target a descendant element? EDIT There is no semantic or programmatic … Read more
Yes you’d need to add shortcodes to the functions.php file in your themes folder in order to use code like [box]Contained content blah blah[/box] in the WYSIWYG editor learn more about shortcodes and how to use them here http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API
get_page_by_title returns an id not content. here is an example of what I use to get content from a certain page id. call the function $page_id = get_page_by_title(‘title’); $excerpt = get_excerpt_by_id($page_id); in functions.php function get_excerpt_by_id($post_id) { global $wpdb; $query = “SELECT post_content FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = $post_id LIMIT 1”; $result = $wpdb->get_results($query, ARRAY_A); return … Read more
You could duplicate the single-column template and rename it single.php.