Whenever i find myself not sure what kind of data is returned by a function i use my simple ready made var_dump_pre() function which i use heavily in developments, simply paste it in your theme’s functions.php file. function var_dump_pre($obj){ echo ‘<pre>’; var_dump($obj); echo <‘/pre>’; } Usage say i want to see what wp_get_nav_menu_items actually returns: … Read more
Reducing the number of blog posts to show at Settings->Reading from 10 to 1 might do it for you.
I’m afraid it won’t work quite like that. There are plugins that enable posting from the front end, such as TDO Mini Forms. Or see this answer for creating a form and code yourself.
create category templates; i.e. category-photos.php and category-texts.php; starting with a copy of the code from category.php. you will still need to hard-code the changes in each template.
If I understand it correctly, in you index.php you want to link the image to the full post. You can accomplish that by adding this to your index.php: <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/24537/<?php the_permalink() ?>” alt=”<?php _e(‘Read full article’, ‘theme’);?>” title=”<?php _e(‘Read full article’, ‘theme’);?>”><?php the_post_thumbnail(‘name-thumb’); ?></a> assuming that you use the featured image to show the image … Read more
Its some what of an old (bad) habit of developers from back when WordPress did not have thumbnail functionality or the add_image_size() function that can be used to create custom image size. The only thing that timthumb does better is side to side cropping instead of the WordPress built-in center box cropping. Don’t get me … Read more
There are a couple of plugins available that will allow you to do this. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-type-convertr/ or http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/convert-post-types/ should get the job done for you.
You have to create Custom Post Type, I’ve done it for the very first time using this tutorial. Basically, you have to add “a few” lines to functions.php and then add your portfolio items as posts in new custom post type (it will be available in your admin panel). I hope it helps 🙂
Based on your pastes, i think what you’re going for is.. function cp_do_pagination() { if( is_home() || is_singular() /* || is_front_page() */ ) return; global $post; // <– do you need this for something in particular? if( !function_exists(‘appthemes_pagination’) ) return; appthemes_pagination(); } The is_singular() function covers is_page(), is_single() and is_attachment(), so no need for the … Read more
Reading at the theme documentation. You have to create new pages and insert the image for each of the slide. The pages won’t be automatically added to the slider. You have to add/select pages from the theme option page.