A problem in loading index.php

WordPress is doing exactly what you’re telling it to do, based on the Template Hierarchy and your Reading Settings. The first thing to understand is that WordPress uses index.php as the default fallback template file for all contexts, and not as the site front page template. The second thing to understand is that the template … Read more

Get posts after calculating meta key

Assuming meta_count is another column in your postmeta table below query should get you the posts based on meta_value/meta_count calculation. $postids=$wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare( “SELECT post_id FROM $wpdb->postmeta ORDER BY (meta_value/meta_count) LIMIT 10 ” ) ); The result $postids would be an array. You will have to declare $wpdb as a global variable before you use this … Read more

custom theme’s search not working

See the Codex page for Template Heirarchy – https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy#Search_Result_display Based on the links you provided, I’d guess the error stems from using a “static” index page. If your index.php file doesn’t contain a loop to iterate through posts, it won’t display any search results. You can retain a “static” index if you create a search.php … Read more

Display recent posts on front page

Try this, <?php $args_latest = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => 1, ‘posts_per_page’ => 4 ); $the_query = new WP_Query($args_latest); ?> <?php while ($the_query -> have_posts()) : $the_query -> the_post(); ?> <article> <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/155609/<?php the_permalink() ?>”><img src=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/155609/<?php bloginfo(“template_directory’); ?>/img/post-images/Adithi_Dinner_blog.jpg” class=”border” alt=”image” /><h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1></a> <p><?php echo substr(strip_tags($post->post_content), 0, 100);?></p> <!– <?php the_content( ‘Read the full … Read more