WordPress uses a hierarchy of templates (see the visual overview) which it checks for presence. In your case when showing a category archive it will check for presence the following files in this order and use the first one it finds: category-$slug.php (In your case probably category-news-events.php) category-$id.php category.php archive.php [paged.php] if paged index.php So … Read more
What you are looking for is a custom search that can be created via rewrite rules. What I’m gonna do is to create a rule that adds some queries to the URL. First, let’s define a rewrite tag so that WordPress recognizes our custom URL. function my_rewrite_tag() { add_rewrite_tag(‘%custom-categories%’, ‘([^&]+)’); } add_action(‘init’, ‘my_rewrite_tag’, 10, 0); … Read more
I tested it, and by default it will show it to everyone even if one of the categories is member only. If you need a fix for that(like me), then use the following in functions.php: function my_filter( $content ) { $categories = array( ‘news’, ‘opinions’, ‘sports’, ‘other’, ); if ( in_category( $categories ) ) { … Read more
I took the freedom to ignore step #1 and step #3, as they seem being part of your primary approach to achieve your goal and not being your goal itself. I believe you can achieve your goal in a simpler way. function assign_last_posts_cat_by_views( $posts_number = 50, $delete_last_posts_transient = true ) { if ( true === … Read more
This is definitely possible, and pretty easy too! If you’d like to register an existing taxonomy (i.e. category) with an existing post type (i.e page), register_taxonomy_for_object_type() can be used. E.g.: add_action( ‘init’, ‘wpse_register_category_tax_for_page’ ); function wpse_register_category_tax_for_page() { $taxonomy = ‘category’; $object_type=”page”; register_taxonomy_for_object_type( $taxonomy, $object_type ); } A new taxonomy can be created and associated with … Read more
There is a filter with the same name (single_cat_title) you can make use of to replace a particular word all the time: add_filter(‘single_cat_title’, function($title) { return str_replace(‘word to replace’, ”, $title); }) ; This should basically do the job.
You could change the template loaded by hooking onto template_include, checking if is_author and is_category are both set, then switch the template for inclusion to the author template instead. Give this a shot.. add_filter( ‘template_include’, ‘my_template_setter’ ); function my_template_setter( $template ) { if( is_author() && is_category() && is_archive() ) $template = get_author_template(); return $template; } … Read more
if you can use template_redirect hook and a simple function to set the template to use add_action( ‘template_redirect’, ‘category_set_redirect’ ); function category_set_redirect(){ //create the sets of categories $first_set= array(“1″,”2″,”3″,”4″,”5″,”6”); $second_set= array(“7″,”8″,”9″,”10″,”11″,”12”); if (is_category()){ if (in_array(get_query_var(‘cat’),$first_set)){ include(TEMPLATEPATH . “/first_category.php”); // include the corresponding template die(); } if (in_array(get_query_var(‘cat’),$second_set)){ include(TEMPLATEPATH . “/second_category.php”); // include the corresponding template … Read more
Ok. I’ve found a solution. Thanks to this great article on Smashing Magazine The code to retrieve category description from any taxonomy term would be : <?php echo (get_term_by(‘slug’, ‘your-term-name’, ‘your-taxonomy-name’)->description); ?> As simple as that
i think that wp_list_categories show categories already formated with <li> tags and you should try using get_categories which leaves the display to you. eg show list of categories and the description $all_categories=get_categories(); echo “<ul>”; foreach($all_categories as $categories_item) { echo “<li>”.$categories_item->description.”</li>”;//you get the idea } echo “</ul>”; EDIT: i saw exactly what you need here