Edit: I see you’ve answered your own question, but the answer you provided seems dubious to me, so I’m going to post this anyway. A child theme needs a few key elements to work: a style.css with header information (including Template: parent-theme-name), a functions.php file (where you can enqueue the parent theme’s stylesheet), and activation … Read more
I think that you’re over engineering the problem here. If all you need to do is get the appropriate archive template, whatever that may be, then use get_archive_template() although you may need to use the {$type}_template_hierarchy filter on get_query_template() to add index.php to the possible results.
Media item permalink goes to source file instead of attachment.php
Overriding the template files using a plugin for all themes
Your question does not seem very clear to me but I believe this is what you are trying to do. You’ve created a custom post-type: people. You want to have a template which displays the the archive list as well as the full content of a post which is also assigned to this template. If … Read more
User role templates
The first issue I can see is you’re missing a wrapping set of parentheses on your if statement: your code: if ( ‘page’ == $post->post_type ) && ( $templateURL == “template=services” ) {… should be: if ( ‘page’ == $post->post_type && $templateURL == “template=services” ) {… I don’t know for sure if that will fix … Read more
WordPress hierarchy clarification, does post_type_archive take precedence over taxonomy-term archive?
The answer is simple: /search/query/?category_name=general&post_type=custom is not a part of WordPress and has been added by a plugin/theme, you need to ask their support or inspect the code to find out For everything else, if is_search() is true, then it’s a search archive. If is_search() is not true it is not a search archive. Since … Read more
Something like this: In your child theme, create a directory to hold your template files as desired; e.g. a “custom_pages” directory, with the according 10 template php files holding the code for these 10 pages inside, like my_page_1.php, my_page_2.php, and so on. Also in your child theme folder; you setup ONE template file like my_custom_page.php; … Read more