Is the archive.php correct template for that? archive.php is the most common file to load any kind of archive posts. But anytime the user loads a category archive page, WordPress template system looks for files in this order: category-slug.php → category-id.php → category.php → archive.php → index.php If you want to create a specific template … Read more
change this one line in your code: <h1 class=”article-title entry-title”>How To <?php the_title(); ?> Free</h1> to: CORRECTION: <h1 class=”article-title entry-title”><?php if( in_category( array(‘news’) ) ) { the_title(); } else { ?> How To <?php the_title(); ?> Free<?php } ?></h1> https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/in_category/
Show the category title, description and a url to it’s archive by using it’s category ID: Get category title: get_the_category_by_ID() Get category description (ID optional): category_description() Get category archive URL: get_category_link() Get the Ids of the oldest and newest post in that category: // Get oldest post ID $posts = get_posts( array( ‘category’ => 1, … Read more
Why not using a meta field ? That way you can determine which template to use for specific category template. In your loop just get the current category that you are trying to load: if( have_posts() ) { while( have_posts() ) { the_post(); $meta_value = get_post_meta( get_the_ID() , ‘meta-field’, true ); if($meta_value == ‘template1’) { … Read more
You can edit the template associated with your Category template in your theme. If you don’t own the theme, you can make a Child theme of it to modify things. For example, in my local WordPress dev environment, I have the theme TwentyTwenty active, and the template responsible for displaying is the index.php (typically it’s … Read more
This part of code from the question will fetch only parent category because ‘parent’ => 0, drop this from array if you need all the categories $categories = get_categories( array( ‘orderby’ => ‘name’, ‘parent’ => 0 ) ); // You can iterate over the list of objects returned by `get_categories` // to achieve list of … Read more
Can’t answer your question, but I just had a poke around with Query Monitor and this is the query that seems to get all the categories (it runs last so you don’t have to search through every single query). If you can be bothered running this against your database and having a poke around with … Read more
The parser has the problem with usage of “, because it is not possible what is for PHP or for the syntax to echo. So change them like. $post_category = get_the_category()[‘0’]->term_id; if ($post_category == 75) { echo ‘<meta name=”theme-color” content=”#B7E0D2″>’; } else { echo'<meta name=”theme-color” content=”#000000″>’; } In the context of your hint to see … Read more
You can use the exclude parameter: ‘exclude’ (array|string) Array or comma/space-separated string of term IDs to exclude. If $hierarchical is true, descendants of $exclude terms will also be excluded; see $exclude_tree. See get_terms(). So with your $args: $args = array( ‘hide_empty’ => true, ‘title_li’ => ”, ‘show_count’ => 0, ‘echo’ => 0, // Excludes specific … Read more
So you can quickly achieve this by changing ‘category’ to ‘genre’ you can do this in Settings > Permalinks and change ‘Category Base’ to ‘genre’. To do it with code and keep both ‘category’ and ‘genre’ as prefixes is possible with a rewrite rule, however someone else may know a better way. You also need … Read more