What is the “with_front” rewrite key?
From the Codex … Should the permastruct be prepended with the front base. (example: if your permalink structure is /blog/, then your links will be: false->/news/, true->/blog/news/). Defaults to true
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remove empty paragraphs from the_content?
WordPress will automatically insert <p> and </p> tags which separate content breaks within a post or page. If, for some reason, you want or need to remove these, you can use either of the following code snippets. To completely disable the wpautop filter, you can use: remove_filter(‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’); If you still want this to function … Read more
How to customize the_archive_title()?
If you look at the source code of get_the_archive_title(), you will see that there is a filter supplied, called get_the_archive_title, through which you can filter the output from the function. You can use the following to change the output on a category page add_filter( ‘get_the_archive_title’, function ( $title ) { if( is_category() ) { $title … Read more
get_template_directory_uri pointing to parent theme not child theme
get_template_directory_uri() will always return the URI of the current parent theme. To get the child theme URI instead, you need to use get_stylesheet_directory_uri(). You can find these in the documentation, along with a list of other useful functions for getting various theme directory locations. If you prefer to use a constant, then TEMPLATEPATH is akin … Read more
Remove “Category:”, “Tag:”, “Author:” from the_archive_title
You can extend the get_the_archive_title filter which I’ve mentioned in this answer add_filter(‘get_the_archive_title’, function ($title) { if (is_category()) { $title = single_cat_title(”, false); } elseif (is_tag()) { $title = single_tag_title(”, false); } elseif (is_author()) { $title=”<span class=”vcard”>” . get_the_author() . ‘</span>’; } elseif (is_tax()) { //for custom post types $title = sprintf(__(‘%1$s’), single_term_title(”, false)); } … Read more
What’s the difference between home_url() and site_url()
You are asking two questions at once: What’s the difference between home_url() and site_url()? How do I get WordPress to return the URL root without the subdirectory where it’s installed? Here are the answers, and I confirmed with Andrew Nacin, a core developer of WordPress, as well as ran some server tests to confirm what … Read more
Missing feature image link function
Yes, you’ve guessed it right. You will need to use Custom Fields in order to define the URL for the Image that you wish to use as Featured Image for the post. Next part is to tell the WordPress to use the Image from URL you’ve in Custom Field as Featured Image. Here, you can … Read more