Add post__in (two underscores) to your $args: $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’, ‘post_mime_type’ =>’image’, ‘post_status’ => ‘inherit’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ‘post__in’ => array( 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166 ), ); Reference WP_Query on the Codex
First of all I don’t think that create a custom post type only for backgrounds is a right choose: backgrond are images and images already have their post type: attachment. If you have Worpress 3.5+ you can register a custom taxonomy for attachments, call it, e.g. ‘image_scope’ : register_taxonomy(‘image_scope’, ‘attachment’, $args ); for the $args … Read more
You can simply use the featured image. Just output it where you want it to appear <?php the_post_thumbnail( $size, $attr ); ?> Use accordingly a class or a ID to style it with CSS. Take a look there: https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails to abilitate the featured image in your theme.
Your question is confusing but I’ll try. Item 1 The $post variable is set before the template loads. It is preset to the first post in the Loop by the main query, so on single post/pages it matches the post/page that you are on and you can use it in the header to display your … Read more
UPDATE Ok, thanks to all for helping me out and pointing me in the right direction. I do have some code clean up to do and a possible all out change in code but I’ll use this for now. I got it to work with the following code. //El display image function el_display(){ global $post; … Read more
You can go into your media library to view all your attachments. There is an unattached option at the top that shows you media that isn’t connected to any pages or posts. You can then select them for deletion.
In general – Yes. Make sure that the file and directory permissions are appropriate. In case the URL of your website changes, you would have to do a find/replace. Read more about it in the links below. Also, ‘update permalinks’ once you have access to the Dashboard. References: Codex: Moving WordPress Codex: Changing File Permissions … Read more
Link to none would only remove the hyperlink from the media. If the user clicks on the media, the media will not open separately in a window / tab. There is no way to hide the link to the resources. There is no security threat of accessing other files from external user.
If you are working in a php file such as a template, you can use $_GET to extract the url variables. For example, if your url was mydomain.com/page?color=blue you would print it on screen by: <?php echo $_GET[‘color’]; ?> This would print “blue”. So to make a conditional statement out of this, you could do: … Read more
You don’t want resize your images, you want to show them in a different size. Right way is the one you mention, (width and height in img tag) and if it does’t work it’s only for some css attached to img (or maybe to all children of the col div..) so, you have to also … Read more