First of all, (you probably know this but..) you are fighting how WP is intended to work. You can not get the post ID directly in your custom page template because it is not displaying the post. So you will have to, as you said, send the post ID to the page template. The best … Read more
Try creating the same structure in your child theme. child_theme/core/libraries/vendor/woocommerce/templates
I solved my own question without breaking the url structure logic, as Krzysiek Dróżdż (thanks!) suggested. I changed the page named /page-actueel-blog to the custom-post-type ‘archive’ template. Pretty obvious, but I thought archive was something else entirely. For whoever may have the same doubts: the archive template is the level up from domain.com/blogpost (single-mycustomposttypename.php); a … Read more
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Create a template file called taxonomy-productCategories.php. For more information, see the Template Hierarchy. I find this image particularly helpful.
This is all fixed. I still had a template assigned to the page in question (press), so it was taking priority. The page you’re now seeing is correct in that it is pulling in content from a custom post type (Recent Stories) after the standard page content from the loop. Thanks for the help. Brett
I discovered that it isn’t actually a bug. In the loop is_home() will refer to the currently looped object and not to the page that you accessed. In fact that’s handy!
As per comments: if you want all pages to redirect to the index.php template anyway, it’s not necessary to put redirects in templates like page.php and single.php. You can simply remove those templates and the template hierarchy will handle it for you.