As already somehow suggested in the comments, I think the most easy thing is to get a solution to your “I don’t want to duplicate template files all over the place because they contain all the same” by modularizing those. E.g. by using template parts – and I think that’s even more powerful – by … Read more
Thank you for reporting on this issue. Regarding the template system, I once more updated it, thinking the new version is easier to the user. I know it still lacks a big rewrite to make it user-friendly. The underlying code is pretty much set to use any new idea for it. I added some upgrade … Read more
First paste this code in your theme’s functions.php function post_is_in_descendant_category( $cats, $_post = null ){ foreach ( (array) $cats as $cat ) { // get_term_children() accepts integer ID only $descendants = get_term_children( (int) $cat, ‘category’); if ( $descendants && in_category( $descendants, $_post ) ) return true; } return false; } then on your category.php or … Read more
take a look at Sidebar Generator it lets you specify a sidebar on a per-page/per-post basis. some of its main features are: Generate unlimited sidebars pick a sidebar on a per-page and per-post basis unique CSS classes for each sidebar for customizable looks
$cat->1176 cannot be a property of an object. PHP Manual: A valid variable name starts with a letter or underscore, followed by any number of letters, numbers, or underscores. As a regular expression, it would be expressed thus: ‘[a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*’ Use $cat->term_id and compare it’s value with the number you’re out for. And … don’t use … Read more
You want to use the template file archive-{posttype}.php to output an archive index of your Custom Post Type, and the template file single-{posttype}.php to output a single Custom Post. Refer to the Codex entry for Template Hierarchy.
What Theme are you using? Your question is entirely Theme-dependent, so specific answers will requiring knowing what Theme you use. (Also, it would be helpful to know if any of your Plugins are injecting scripts.) The answer really depends on how those scripts and scripts are called. If they are called properly, they are registered … Read more
Wouldn’t ya know – 10 minutes or less since I asked my question and I’ve discovered the answer. I was attempting to define MY_PLUGIN_TEMPLATES using using plugins_dir_url(), now it looks like this and is working: define( ‘MY_PLUGIN_TEMPLATES’, dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/templates’ ); Thanks to mfields for the suggestion of dirname instead of WP_PLUGIN_DIR.
My solution at the moment is to use a GET variable to request a different page template: Regular version of taxonomy page: mysite.com/subjects/science Blog version of taxonomy page: mysite.com/subjects/science?view=blog To handle the ?view=blog variable, I add this conditional to the top of taxonomy.php (or taxonomy-subjects.php and any other taxonomy-{slug} that I want to have an … Read more
Attach a filter that only outputs a different link when you’re on single.php: function wpse25725_author_posts( $link ) { // abort if not on single.php if ( ! is_single() ) return; // modify this as you like – so far exactly the same as in the original core function // if you simply want to add … Read more