I feel bad for answering my own question on here, but here’s what I did. I created a custom search template, a custom searchform.php and changed my header.php to reflect my custom search page. What I did is rename the search box names to search instead of s to get around WordPress automatically running search.php … Read more
I’m having trouble doing the same for a page that is called from WP Settings as the “Posts Page”. Let’s say at the top of the “Blog” page (a WordPress page), I want some intro text to the blog that says, “Welcome to the blog. Please check out new posts below.” Instead of hardcoding that … Read more
There is a parameter in WP_Query called post_parent. Normally this refers to the ID of the post’s parent, but since its an integer field, pages without a parent have in essence a post_parent of 0. So, to get all pages that are not child pages of another page, you could use query_posts( ‘post_type=page&post_parent=0’ ); or, … Read more
Without knowing exactly what you’re trying to acheive, it’s difficult to know if using page templates for this is the best solution, or if you should consider using a Custom Post Type for portfolio items, and then a custom archive page to display them. Anyway, I digress… The template a page is set to use, … Read more
Your theme’s CSS stylesheet is controlling the appearance of the menu, and targeting it via the div that contains it: #head-nav ul li Your menu either has to appear within the same markup, or your CSS styles need to be appended / modified to target your new menu.
The styles are not created in CSS, they are created in page markup. If your theme and template are coded properly they make use of body_class() function, that will output number of classes for you to make use of in page source. View source of your page and <body> tag to see what you have … Read more
If you know the page ID, the simplest answer would be to get the content for the page. // This retrieves the content from the post or page where ID = $page_id. // You can either set this above here, or call get_the_content(12). Your choice. $parent_page_content = get_the_content($page_id) // Clean it up and make it … Read more
You’re missing part of your post <div> Look through your loop and you’ll see something that’s not closed or something. It will more than likely look like this <?php the_ID(); ?>” <?php post_class(); ?>> When it needs to be something like <div id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>” <?php post_class(); ?>> Hope that helps.
When you use pretty permalinks, WordPress creates a set of rules for each type of content. These rules define a pattern that each type of content’s URL’s will follow. When you have an incoming request, WordPress decides what is being requested by matching the URL with these rules. If multiple rules match, the one with … Read more
There was a WordPress 3.4.1 update released a little over a week ago. One of the bugfixes mentioned is “Fixes an issue where a theme’s page templates were sometimes not detected.” Have you tried doing that upgrade yet?