The good basic technique to go from specifics to more general context is to look at the calls you already have. You already call single_cat_title(), which somehow knows current category, right? If you look inside you will see it passes call to single_term_title(). And how does that one in turn knows? $term = get_queried_object(); So … Read more
Due to historical context implementation of static front pages in WordPress is, simply put, a horror. This is not something it was meant to do originally and the way it was bolted on at a certain point is opposite of smooth. Under these constraints it would be hard to impossible to say what would be … Read more
I ended up getting this working and it was much easier than I expected thanks to the comments by @LWS-Mo and @Milo. In my page I add a custom field with name=add_class and key=extra-wide. I then use code snippets plugin (I didn’t want it in the theme’s function.php since I toggle between the main theme … Read more
The easiest way to achieve your desired result is to create a template file in your child theme and name it page.php. WordPress has a template hierarchy for template selection based on the queried object. See documentation.
It is impossible to guess how it breaks. Page template choice is stored in meta. Why would meta break? Who knows. Also who knows what else breaks that you might not be noticing. The best advice to look into breakage would be to look into it right away when you hit the issue next. Look … Read more
The most easy way to append something to the end of URLs and process it in WP are rewrite endpoints. It makes it easy to target specific kind of URLs and generally it is unlikely to explode everything, like many of rewrite modifications do.
locate_template search template only in themes then to use a file outside themes, you can use the filter template_include like that add_filter(“template_include”, function ($template) { $post = get_queried_object(); if ( is_single() && (“features” === $post->post_type) ) { // absolute path to the template file $template = __DIR__ . “/../../template/my_features_template.php”; } return $template; });
The post limit is controlled in the admin panel, at Settings > Reading. There you can set the limit for how many posts should be shown in a query. However, the default post count for get_posts() is 5. If you would like to query unlimited posts (regardless of performance issues), you can either create your … Read more
You can redirect users from home page to random page with this code (paste it to your functions.php) function my_homepage_redirect() { if ( is_home() || is_front_page() ){ $page = get_posts( [ ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 1, ‘category’ => 1, // your category ID ‘orderby’ => ‘rand’, ‘fields’ => ‘ids’ ] ); if ( empty( … Read more
The first parameter passed to register_post_type is the post type key which is used by the theme template hierarchy. register_post_type documentation. The cows.php is a page template, so to use it create a new page and select the ‘Cows’ template. You will need to alter the slug of this page so it doesn’t conflict with … Read more