The is_home() conditional tag applies to the posts page according to your reading settings or home.php file as opposed to the is_front_page() conditional which applies to the page on front according to your reading settings or your front-page.php file, if it exists. Try changing is_home() to is_front_page() As for another possible problem might be, take … Read more
In your functions.php file, use pre_get_posts and swap out the -1 in the following code with the category I.D you want to exclude from your posts page. function exclude_category( $query ) { if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) { $query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-1’ ); } } add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_category’ );
Before you get to relating things in WordPress, you should decide what things are. In a very nutshell there are: Posts of post types (native ones being pages and blog posts) Terms of taxonomies (native ones being tags and categories) There are some things that WordPress does smoothly out of the box. Such as post … Read more
Which wp_get_recent_posts()do you retrieve the most recent posts. For meta data, like published date and modified date use additional functions. For the published date is the_date() helpful. For the modified date use the_modified_date(). The functions are a part of the Template Tags, useful for Theme and direct output. But she have also parameters to get … Read more
The loop in a page loads only the content of the page. Thus you see only one post. You have to set up a “Page of Posts”. You can find basic examples in the codex at Page Templates. But using it as static front page results in some problems. The links to follow pages will … Read more
get_the_content() returns unfiltered content, and using a shortcode you cannot use the_content() to return filtered content as you cannot echo inside a shortcode. Your best option here will be is to applying the_content filters to get_the_content(), something like: apply_filters( ‘the_content’, get_the_content() ); EDIT Exact usage, replace $output .= get_the_content(); with $output .= apply_filters( ‘the_content’, get_the_content() … Read more
If I enter this shortcode: [download url=”http://example.com”]Download[/download] it works fine. But you have to enter the link text as content yourself. You might have missed that, the way I read your question. Your [demo]-Shortcode throughs an error. To see this, you need to have WP_DEBUG set to true: Notice: Undefined variable: func in \wp-includes\shortcodes.php on … Read more
I’m not quite sure what you want to do as frankly, your terminology is a bit scrambled, and you example shortcode is also quite a mess. Before I start, you should start of by checking the following very important links Shortcode API WP_Query You should first start of by defining your attributes (and their defaults) … Read more
get_post() returns a post object. So you can try the following $post = get_post( 1571 ); setup_postdata( $post ); the_title(); the_content(); wp_reset_postdata();
One of the problems I have run into while trying to accomplish something like this is: WHEN are you trying to get this information. A lot of stuff happens in a WordPress page request. See: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference If you just have the raw function in your plugin file, it will try to run when the plugin … Read more