You really don’t need much. A headline with id=comments <h2 id=”comments”><?php comments_number(); ?></h2> This will be the target for comments_link() in the article loop. Links for paginated comments. Usually, I put these links into a function and call the function above and below the comments list: class TTT_Template { function comment_pager() { if ( get_comment_pages_count() … Read more
Stop WordPress to run main query is hard: you have to dig inside the deep heart of WordPress. WordPress frontend workflow: wp-blog-header.php call the function wp() wp() function creates an instance of wp class, and call main() method on it main() method code: public function main($query_args=””) { $this->init(); $this->parse_request($query_args); // build query vars starting from … Read more
WordPress 4.7 introduces a new filter that allows us to easily modify the template hierarchy: /** * Filters the list of template filenames that are searched for when retrieving * a template to use. * * The last element in the array should always be the fallback * template for this query type. * * … Read more
This is the technique I’m using on a site right now. It involves registering a query var for “template”, and registering an endpoint called /contact, which rewrites internally to ?template=contact. Then you just check for that query variable at the template_redirect hook, and if its present, include the page template you want to load and … Read more
To provide a default template that can be overwritten by a theme hook into template_include like the linked questions suggest. You get the template WordPress wants to use as a parameter. If that is not the file you want – replace it with your plugin’s file: add_filter( ‘template_include’, ‘wpse_57232_render_cpt’, 100 ); /** * Provide fall … Read more
You can do that with single_template filter. First you will need to check if a post belongs to a top level category. So here is the function. // custom single template for specific category function wpse_custom_category_single_template( $single_template ) { global $post; // get all categories of current post $categories = get_the_category( $post->ID ); $top_categories = … Read more
Setting page to be “posts page” changes its template hierarchy to follow home page rules. So your custom template is ignored and it looks for home.php or index.php, which might or might not be the reason it fails to render.
Untested, but try: <?php echo get_the_title( get_option( ‘page_for_posts’ ) ); ?> But it’s somewhat hackish. Really, the page_on_front and page_for_posts are intended to be nothing more than placeholders for the site front page and blog posts index page.
First of all – plugins are for generating content, themes are for displaying it. So really, a plugin shouldn’t do this. But there are grey areas – for example in an ‘events’ related plugin, it would be desirable to display dates, venue etc – things that a WordPress theme wouldn’t normally display. I would suggest … Read more
Here is a code I used to do it: // make category use parent category template function load_cat_parent_template($template) { $cat_ID = absint( get_query_var(‘cat’) ); $category = get_category( $cat_ID ); $templates = array(); if ( !is_wp_error($category) ) $templates[] = “category-{$category->slug}.php”; $templates[] = “category-$cat_ID.php”; // trace back the parent hierarchy and locate a template if ( !is_wp_error($category) … Read more