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Check this post by BetterWP. You may need to edit the code as it does not mention about monthly archives.

You’ll want to filter the main query via pre_get_posts callback. If you’ll only want to handle one specific post in this manner, you can reference/exclude its post ID directly. If, however, you want this same behavior for any future private posts, then I would query all posts with $post->post_status of private, and exclude them. One … Read more

this function will check if you’re on a category page and 302 redirect to the latest post in that category. put it in your theme’s functions.php file. function my_check_if_cat(){ if ( is_category() ) : $category = get_the_category(); $latest = query_posts(‘showposts=1&cat=”.$category[0]->cat_ID); if(have_posts()) : wp_redirect(get_permalink($post->ID), 302); endif; endif; } add_action(“template_redirect’,’my_check_if_cat’);

You should take a look at content.php and do a check for is_post_type_archive() on whatever you want to hide. For example to hide the entry-meta section, you can do the following: <?php if ( !is_post_type_archive() ) { ?> <div class=”entry-meta”> <?php if ( ‘post’ == get_post_type() ) twentyfourteen_posted_on(); if ( ! post_password_required() && ( comments_open() … Read more

is_archive() doesn’t accept any parameter and return true for every archive page: Categories, tag, date, author, …. I think what you need is to check if you are in a category page (in a archive of the category taxonomy) or in the blog home: if ( is_category() || is_home() ) { wp_register_script(‘isotope’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/js/jquery.isotope.min.js’, … Read more

There are two kinds of loops in PHP: With a unknown amount of elements ( while(), foreach(), do() while, etc) With a specific number of elements (for() ) You need a loop with a specific number of elements (in this case 12 elements). So a while loop is not what you need. At first take … Read more