I figured it out, had a lot of syntax issues and open php tags. <?php // the query $the_query = new WP_Query(array( ‘category_name’ => ‘local-news’, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 5, )); ?> <?php if ($the_query->have_posts()) : ?> <?php while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query >the_post(); ?> <div class=”card-body pb-0″> <div class=”latest_news_cont”> <a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>”> <?php … Read more
How can I display the last updated post with the author, the created date, and the modified date on one line?
First thing : initialize variable $content=””; before the while loop. other than that your code is right. there is something you are doing wrong to use shortcode. you should check this link https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/do_shortcode/#user-contributed-notes and make changes. also if using for custom post type please add post_type argument in $args
How to remove the icons corresponding to “by” (author) and “date” from posts?
Your columns are in an array. PHP has a few options you can use depending on how you want to sort the array (low to high, high to low, etc.). Here is the documentation for that. https://www.php.net/manual/en/array.sorting.php
Prevent the automatic URL linking added in last update
Add class to global $post
Not adding a new post?
This is part of wptexturize, which includes a number of other transforms such as generating en- and em-dash symbols, ellipses and curly quotes. (Here’s the specific code for this, known as ‘multiplication symbol’ in the documentation but ‘times’ in the code.) You can disable wptexturize completely with add_filter( ‘run_wptexturize’, ‘__return_false’ ); but there’s no built-in … Read more
My post permalinks are redirecting to the post archive page for some reason?