From my experience, some themes have their own setting with options to display additional information on the homepage. To find out what’s being used for the front page, do the following: Navigate to Settings > Reading Under Front page displays it will show which page is being used It’s hard to determine what your set … Read more
No, you cannot. Static front pages needs a page template to be set. You have a couple of choices here to do what you want Create a page you would want select as static front page. You can then add your custom content in the same way you would do for a post in the … Read more
You can make use of the frontpage_template filter to adjust where your template should be loaded from add_filter( ‘frontpage_template’, function ( $template ) { $locate_template = locate_template( ‘page-templates/front-page.php’ ); if ( !$locate_template ) return $template; return $locate_template; });
You can check in your callback function if you are an the front page. Sample code for the theme’s functions.php: add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘wpse_67480_theme_setup’ ); function wpse_67480_theme_setup() { $bg_options = array ( ‘wp-head-callback’ => ‘wpse_67480_background_frontend’, ‘default-color’ => ‘f0f0f0’, ‘default-image’ => ”, ); add_theme_support( ‘custom-background’, $bg_options ); add_theme_support( ‘custom-header’, array ( ‘width’ => 960, ‘height’ => 200, … Read more
If you manually enter the admin URL wp-admin/options.php you’ll see a list of all options and their values. show_on_front is page when a page is selected to show on front. page_on_front and page_for_posts are 0 when no pages are chosen. You can use update_option to change these values, there is no set_option function.
If I’m understanding you correctly, you want to show only the most recent sticky post only on the front page. I had the same issue a month or two ago, and got some fantastic help from the community here at WordPress Answers. The solution is to run two loops in your index.php file. One to … Read more
get_page_by_title() returns an object. Use $homepage->ID. You should also check if you really got a usable return value: $homepage = get_page_by_title( ‘Front Page’ ); if ( $homepage ) { update_option( ‘page_on_front’, $homepage->ID ); update_option( ‘show_on_front’, ‘page’ ); }