Thanks to the comments from @Pieter Goosen and @cybmeta I changed my way to order the posts on the archive page by making use of pre_get_posts What I wanted my archive page to do is displaying posts with custom field value 1 and named “premium” (my method to create custom sticky posts) first and then … Read more
You should not use echo in this case. Please visit the function reference of get_template_part. As you will see, there is nothing to print: get_template_part doesn’t return a value and doesn’t warn if it fails to find a matching template file. Additionally, I recommend that you check out this question: Should we use get_template_part() in … Read more
Got it. Admittedly, this feels hacky but seems to do the job just fine. In my existing customize_register hook I set the following: // Retreive the widget section in the Theme Customizer // We need to cast the return of get_section to an object // “the_widgets_section” in get_section is the ID of the registered widget … Read more
There are some confusing information in your question and some important information missing Did you set a static front page as it is suggested in your code Do you need to achieve this on your front page or homepage Why aren’t you using the front-page.php template included if you have set a static front page, … Read more
The default text widget – WP_Widget_Text – can be found in wp-includes/default-widgets.php. The input is handled like this: stripslashes( wp_filter_post_kses( addslashes( $text ) ) ); for the text; I assume this should work likewise for your custom widget. Additionally there is: wpautop( $text ) on the output, if the filter is set to do that; … Read more
Using the_widget() denies those $instance variables being set, which they normally are when you stick it in a Sidebar in the back end. Try something like this: the_widget(‘bannerWidget’, array( ‘title’ => ‘WordPress rocks!’, ‘text’ => ‘Hello World.’, ‘textarea’ => ‘Some content for the textarea’ ) ); the_widget is for hard-coded widgets. To use the one … Read more
you can create new widget area. function header_widget_areas() { register_sidebar( array( ‘name’ => __( ‘header’, ‘header’ ), ‘id’ => ‘header’, ‘description’ => __( ‘Insert something for about us text.’, ‘header’ ), ‘before_widget’ => ‘<div class=”widget span3″>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</div>’, ‘before_title’ => ‘<h4>’, ‘after_title’ => ‘</h4>’, ) ); } add_action(‘widgets_init’, ‘header_widget_areas’); Then place your widget in … Read more
Try adding another attribute See the Codex
Use page templates and template parts. On your Front Page, you include the Texts as Template Parts: Front Page +—————+—————+—————+ | Page A | Page B | Page C | +—————+—————+—————+ | Link Page 1 | Link Page 2 | Link Page 3 | | Text 1 (TP1*) | Text 2 (TP2*) | Text 3 … Read more
I think your idea is really nice here, but you have a couple of serious flaws in your code. Never use extract(), ever. It is extremely hard to debug and can render unexpected output. It has now been completely removed from core, except in one instance as far as I can pick up from this … Read more