Not a bad idea for display of a blog home page and I would be interested in what you came up with, but thinking through the idea for implementation beyond the first page would be problematic: Pagination – If it is just the blog home then you can easily set an offset for starting on … Read more
Another approach: edit your theme files. archive.php can simply not call in the sidebar, and that will do what you’re asking. Have a look at the Template Hierarchy for a view of what the individual files in a theme take care of.
With a dynamic CMS like WordPress, there is no real way to “lock it down.” As the web evolves, formerly unknown security holes are discovered and patched in new versions. In reality, unless you’re always running the latest version of WordPress (currently 3.0.4), your site is in some way vulnerable. If you don’t intend to … Read more
You could redirect anything that’s not a page or admin to home via the parse_query action: function wpa_parse_query( $query ){ if( ! is_admin() && ! $query->is_page() ) { wp_redirect( home_url() ); exit; } } add_action( ‘parse_query’, ‘wpa_parse_query’ ); If it’s not an admin screen or a query for a page, it’ll redirect. You can see … Read more
You can use pre_get_posts in your functions file to alter the query function wpsites_query( $query ) { if ( $query->is_archive() && $query->is_main_query() && !is_admin() ) { $query->set( ‘posts_per_page’, 100 ); } } add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘wpsites_query’ );
This may be an old question, but all the answers here are incorrect. If the front page is set to a static page, and another page is set to the blog page, this will dynamically fetch and echo the URL for the blog archive page (i.e. blog index page)… <?php echo get_permalink( get_option( ‘page_for_posts’ ) … Read more
The easiest way to do this is to use a hook (the pre_get_posts hook) to change the order. But you should check that the query is one for which you do want to alter the order! (is_archive() or is_post_type_archive() should be sufficient.) For instance, put the following in your theme’s functions.php… add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘my_change_sort_order’); function … Read more