The WordPress template hierarchy is your friend. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/ This provides a very detailed flow for how WP determines which template to load. If you are ever uncertain about which template is loading, this little function is handy. Paste in your theme’s functions.php and it will display the template used at the bottom of the page. … Read more
Resolved <?php $i = 1; if (have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); if ($i%5 == 0) echo ‘</li><li>’; ?>
Depending on what your static content and ad will be, I might be tempted to create a custom post type and add an ads post and a static content post, then use @birgire post injector class to take care of the injection of these two posts where you need them. You might need to alter … Read more
<?php $row_start = 1; while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); if( $row_start % 2 != 0) {// odd ?> <div class=”left-side”> <?php get_template_part( ‘blog’,’item’); ?> </div> <?php } if( $row_start % 2 == 0) {// even ?> <div class=”right-side”> <?php get_template_part( ‘blog’,’item’);?> </div> <?php } ++$row_start; endwhile; ?> You could always break in and out … Read more
Ok, thanks to The Maniac for all the help troublshooting. Looks like I had to take this completely outside the loop and call the WP_Query class on a new variable to make it happen. Here’s what worked: <?php $query = new WP_Query( array ( ‘orderby’ => ‘rand’, ‘posts_per_page’ => ‘1’ ) ); while ( $query->have_posts() … Read more
The best way to do this is get the post format and then use the switch statement, like this: $my_format = get_post_format (); switch ($my_format) { case ‘quote’: $htmlcontent = … ; break; case ‘aside’: $htmlcontent = … ; break; and so on } The function that builds up $htmlcontent starts with declaring some building … Read more
If you want the WordPress framework without the querying, use wp-load.php: require ‘/path/to/wordpress/wp-load.php’;
WordPress runs a filter on the content to automatically add paragraphs: wpautop. You can remove the filter from all your post’s content if you like: remove_filter(‘the_content’,’wpautop’); Alternatively, you can check out the Disabler plugin which can do this for you. If you want to remove the filter from particular post(s) you can do: add_filter(‘the_content’,’maybe_remove_wpautop’,9); function … Read more
You need the WP_Query documentation. WP_Query is very powerful, and you can do a lot with it 🙂 In your case, I don’t think exclude is a valid parameter. What you’re probably looking for is this: $query->set( ‘post__not_in’, array( 34 ) ); Here’s the Post & Page Parameters section of the documentation, which covers this … Read more
Here are some notes: There’s a problem with how $args is defined: $args = new WP_Query(array( … ) ); $the_query = new WP_Query( $args ); i.e. there are two WP_Query instances here but $args must be an array. It looks like this part is problematic too: $content = str_word_count( strip_tags( $content ) ); if( ” … Read more