I wouldn’t recommend using a taxonomy slug that coincides with the public query variables, like title. The title query variable was introduced in 4.4 so I think that could explain your problems. Check out this part of the WP_Query class: if ( ” !== $q[‘title’] ) { $where .= $wpdb->prepare( ” AND $wpdb->posts.post_title = %s”, … Read more
The WooCommerce template files are different from the WordPress Template files look at this to see how it works and the template file for shop pages is archive-product.php Usually, all themes provide a separate sidebar area for the shop page, did you check if your theme is compatible with WooCommerce? If yes then you should … Read more
So what’s the best practice here? I would say a combination of letting the theme handle it and providing a default with your plugin. You can use the single_template filter to switch out the template. In your callback, see if the theme provided a template for the post type, if it did, do nothing. <?php … Read more
It’s the nature of the WordPress template hierarchy – point being, if you don’t have a page.php, it will use singular.php, same if you don’t have single.php, it will fallback to a template lower in the hierarchy. Ideal for themes that have the same layout for posts/pages, instead of having duplicate code in each respective … Read more
A) The Base in Core As you can see in the Codex Template Hierarchy explanation, single-{$post_type}.php is already supported. B) Extending the core Hierarchy Now there’re gladly some filters and hooks inside /wp-includes/template-loader.php. do_action(‘template_redirect’); apply_filters( ‘template_include’, $template ) AND: a specific filter inside get_query_template( $type, … ) named: “$type}_template” B.1) How it works Inside the … Read more
Error pages are served up via .HTACCESS, if you are using Apache you would use the ErrorDocument directive and add the status and URL to it. So it would look like this in your .htaccess file: ErrorDocument 401 http://yourwebsite.com/error-401 ErrorDocument 403 http://yourwebsite.com/error-403 ErrorDocument 500 http://yourwebsite.com/error-500 You could use the following function below. This will dynamically … Read more
Front page logic is one of the most confusing features in WordPress and is exceptionally hard to explain and summarize. As mentioned in comment while back I burnt unholy amount of time to put together my front page logic cheat sheet for it. But since this is a popular thread let me try to answer … Read more