If you want to replace the theme home page, you cannot use wp_head hook: it is called from a theme file (usually header.php) so you can’t replace something that is already included. I suggest you to create a php file that contain your custom home page, and put it in a plugin folder. This file, … Read more
Inside a template file, the standard loop syntax will display only the information about that page( In fact, a template file is no more than a page ). If you want to display some posts you need to run a custom query or to include ( get_template_part() ) another template file which normally runs a … Read more
is_single() is intend to work with post types, not categories. To check for category you should use is_category(‘programming’). Note that is_category works on category archives, not on single view. So, if you want to check in the current is a single view and has the category ‘programming’ you need the has_term tag: if( is_single() && … Read more
Short answer: I guess the problem of your code is the missing die(); as last line of doThemeRedirect method. After that, your code can be simplified a lot, using the template_include filter hook instead of the template_redirect action hook. Simplify means reduce the chances of bugs, or at least, let recognization of them simpler. public … Read more
The simplest way is to use conditional tags is_page(), For example <div class=”row-fluid top-banner”> <div class=”container”> <div class=”banner-overlay”></div> <?php $logo = of_get_option(‘logo’, ” ); if ( !empty( $logo ) ) { ?> if ( is_page( ‘contact’ ) ) { <a class=”brand brand-image” href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/114494/<?php echo esc_url( home_url(“/contact/’ ) ); ?>” title=”<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( ‘name’, ‘display’ … Read more
There are two ways to go about doing this. The McGuyver Way Create a category called “Featured” then on the front page, simply call a post loop of the featured category. Old featured posts can be removed, or they can just fall off after they are no longer in the top 3-5 you are showing. … Read more
Your foreach is closed prematurely. foreach( $categories as $catergory ) { // query args $args = array( // args ); } // generate the loop $the_query = new WP_Query ( $args ); // output the loop while ( $the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post(); // Loop markup endwhile; wp_reset_postdata(); You’re saying: Step through each of the categories; for … Read more
If you want your single post pages to be hierarchical children of /locations, then the easiest way is simply to use archive-locations.php. I’m not sure why you’re involving a “Locations” static page here, when you can modify the archive-locations.php template file in any way to suit your needs – including outputting a custom query loop. … Read more
The page template you are looking to overwrite is the page.php file. If you replace the code in that file with the code from your template (or delete it and rename your file to page.php), your problem should be taken care of.
First of all, your page templates will normally include everything needed to make up a page, i.e. including this structure: <html> <head></head> <body></body> </html> which is not what you want over and over in your one-pager. However if you’ve built your templates using the get_template_part() function (described quite well over here) you can reuse it … Read more