Can I host my wordpress blog on github pages as a static webpage

This website gives a good answer on how to do this: https://www.hywel.me/static/site/wordpress/2016/07/17/fast-free-static-website-with-wordpress-and-github-pages.html In short: Set-up GitHub pages. Install Simply static plugin into WordPress. Push the export from the plug-in back to your git repository and you are done!

Page Redirection in WordPress

Thats a 404 Not Found Error. Please, make sure that the page actually exists on your WordPress blog. However, since the WordPress’ 404 page is not being shown, either your theme does not support 404 page OR something is wrong in the way Redirection plugin is setup. Also, what you want can be simply achieved … Read more

WordPress: save `get_template_part()` to variable

This isn’t what get_template_part was for, get_template_part essentially behaves like PHP’s require function. Justin Tadlock writes a lot more about this here and also talks about a WordPress function that might be more useful to you – locate_template. Alternatively, if you did want to hack this functionality using get_template_part, you could use template buffering:

function “add_submenu_page in wordpress connects to the home page instead of the submenu page

It may be because you are using the same name of the slug in the name of the callback function, try changing it. You can also do the following: You can even omit the callback function with an anonymous one. There is also no need to add a conditional to verify the capacity of manage_options, … Read more

Difficulty updating WordPress from 3.9.1 to 4.0

You need to check your file/folder permissions. Your webhost may have them set too strictly for WordPress to write its own temp folders and extract its own archive in /wp-content/upgrade/. See Changing File Permissions « WordPress Codex: Typically, all files should be owned by your user (ftp) account on your web server, and should be writable by … Read more