You should create a separate template for the home page and use that. Please refer to the WordPress Codex Entry on templates, as it will go more in depth than I can in this answer. You can then code the template however you would like. You can also style it however you’d like as it … Read more
Thought the language is a bit confusing, if you check the Codex and pay attention to the difference between the Admin and the Super Admin you should be able to see what is happening. In the case of single site WordPress installation, Administrators are, in effect, Super Admins. As such, they are the only ones … Read more
You can use the template_include filter to load a template file from your theme: add_filter( ‘template_include’, ‘my_page_template’, 99 ); function my_page_template( $template ) { if ( isset( $_GET[‘info’] ) && $_GET[‘info’] == ‘some_value’ ) { $new_template = locate_template( array(‘my-template.php’ ) ); if ( ” != $new_template ) { return $new_template ; } } return $template; … Read more
You should have a look at using conditional tags in wordpress. is_single() is the conditional tag for a single page, ie single.php. For homepage, is_home() or is_front_page() should be use, depending on whether a front page is set in settings or not.
$the_query = new WP_Query( array( ‘post_type’ => ‘page’, ‘parent’ => 42, ‘child_of’ => 0,) ); You should edit this line like following: $the_query = new WP_Query( array( ‘post_type’ => ‘page’, ‘post_parent’ => 42) );
I realise this question is 3 years old, but I just solved what sounds like a similar situation. I have a page with a slug join I created page-join.php and my issue was that it wasn’t being referenced I resolved the issue by changing the Join page’s Page Attributes > Template from what was selected … Read more
I think wp_login is executing before functions.php is actually opened, thus not setting the global variable. One possible solution to this is instead append to the URL: function open_menu($user_login) { wp_redirect(home_url().’?menu_open=true’); exit; } add_action(‘wp_login’, ‘open_menu’); Then you could get that value via if(isset($_GET[‘menu_open’]) && $_GET[‘menu_open’])
Instead of having a page template for all of them, have a single page template and use get_template_part to pull in the parts unique to each page. So instead of: update_post_meta($new_page_id, ‘_wp_page_template’, $page_filename); You’d have: update_post_meta( $new_page_id, ‘_wp_page_template’, ‘newpagetemplate.php’ ); update_post_meta( $new_page_id, ‘sagive_page_type’, $page ); Then inside your new page template: $type = get_post_meta( get_the_id(), … Read more
Filter pre_get_posts is used for modifying the query from theme or plugin. This hook is called after the query variable object is created, but before the actual query is run. Codex documentation of pre_get_posts Although this filter is very handy and useful, we need to be very careful using it. We should very careful about … Read more
Go to your FTP program and open up a file called .htaccess Sometimes this file can be hidden so be absolutely sure that no files are hidden from showing up. Go ahead and open up .htaccess and add in “DirectoryIndex index.php” without the quotes. Assuming you didn’t rename the default index.php, then this should do … Read more