In author.php: <?php get_template_part(‘custom-author-file’); Alternatively, rename your custom-author-file.php to author.php. The URL being used in this case isn’t relevant, as a template doesn’t determine the URL used, it’s the other way around. However, I suspect there is more to your question you haven’t explained
Are you absolutely certain that you don’t accidentally have a closing php tag where you shouldn’t? – yes – turned out to be that I had <? rather than <?php – probably the new server was set differently – as per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2185320/how-to-enable-php-short-tags
As far I’ve known get_template_part() function does not work with foreach loop. So we need to use locate_template() function to this case. This is your customized category template code. Put it there – <?php /** * Category Template: Custom */ get_header(); ?> <div id=”content” class=”site-content container <?php echo codilight_lite_sidebar_position(); ?>”> <div class=”content-inside”> <div id=”primary” class=”content-area”> … Read more
Indeed, if your site has a static page on the front, the condition is_page will be true and WP will never get to the elseif. If you want a different template for your front page, you should exclude it from the first condition so it will return false in that case. Like this: if ((is_single() … Read more
I’ve investigated a bit and your problem is the WP_Query::parse_orderby() function. Everything you like to use as an order is sanitized there which the user Otto liked to point out. Unfortunately it has no filter to hook in. And yes it is better to use some meta_fields if you can afford an expensive JOIN in … Read more
There are two functions you need to accomplish this. First, you will have to know whether a category is a subactegory of 16. This is cat_is_ancestor_of. Second, you will have to force that category to use the template of 16, which you do with locate_template. Knowing this, you can build a filter on the function … Read more
There are two ways to approach this: modify the existing the_tags function or build your own. the_tags ultimately relies on get_the_term_list, which returns a list of hyperlinked tags. You would have to use regular expressions to add classes and styles to that using a filter. That would be quite cumbersome. So, my preferred approach would … Read more
That should be all you need to do. I would suggest creating a child theme if you haven’t already, and put the new template files there.
If you would like all Post Types to have template selection functionality, please update to WordPress version 4.7. Quoted from the codex page linked above: Page Templates for Post Types Add support for post type templates. Add support for post type templates. By opening up the page template functionality to all post types, theme developers … Read more
Oviously, you’ll have to edit something if you want to modify it. So, your best course of action is to create a child theme, with its own function file. A filter, as you tried, won’t work, because there is no filter hook in the function that you are trying to modify. What you can do, … Read more