The best way would be to just add a cats category and filter those out from the home page using the pre_get_posts filter. function kill_kittens( $query ) { if ( $query->is_home ) { $query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-23’ ); //assumes the cats category id is 23 } } add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘kill_kittens’ ); For your cats page you … Read more
Use the delete_category action, which passes category id as an argument: function my_category_delete_function( $id ){ // do something with category $id } add_action( ‘delete_category’, ‘my_category_delete_function’, 10, 1 );
Use WP_Query’s built in current_post counter in your loop: while( have_posts() ): the_post(); if( $wp_query->current_post == 0 ): // this is the first post in the loop else: // this is > first post endif; endwhile; EDIT w/html: <?php while( have_posts() ): the_post(); if( $wp_query->current_post == 0 ): ?> featured post category description <ul> <?php … Read more
You say you have a page for your portfolio, then go on to say you want posts displayed; confusing. Assume you have a category for posting items into named portfolio. New portfolio items will be posted in the portfolio category. You can take your categories.php page, copy and re-name it categories-portfolio.php, then customize it as … Read more
Instead of writing custom SQL, you should be able to just use the native get_category_by_slug() which will return a full category object to include the category ID.
There is no good way to do this, but it can be done in a way. When you visit /category/ it serves it as though you are visiting a page called category. You can look for this like: global $wp_query; if ($wp_query->query_vars[‘pagename’] == “category”) { // This is base category } else if ($wp_query->query_vars[‘pagename’] == … Read more
as moraleida mentions, your setup is a custom implementation specific to your theme, not native to WordPress. rather than use a category, I would use post metadata to designate posts as featured. I would additionally create a custom meta box to designate the post as featured, that way, on the back end, I can store … Read more
Use the is_category() condtional statement if(is_category(‘category-a-slug’)){ get_header(‘a’); }elseif(is_category(‘category-b-slug’)){ get_header(‘b’); }
You could filter ‘term_link’. just an untested idea, written directly into the answer field add_filter( ‘term_link’, ‘wpse_55476_categore_ur_filter’, 10, 3 ); function wpse_55476_categore_ur_filter( $termlink, $term, $taxonomy ) { if ( ‘category’ !== $taxonomy ) { return $termlink; } // separate the URL $parts = explode( “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”, $termlink ); // get the term $term_slug = array_pop( $parts … Read more
You could do one query for the 4 latest posts excluding the schaft category, then do another query for the latest post in schaft. get the date of the single schaft post and check it against the dates of the other posts as you output them, inserting it in the correct position. EDIT Two loop … Read more