In your functions.php file, use pre_get_posts and swap out the -1 in the following code with the category I.D you want to exclude from your posts page. function exclude_category( $query ) { if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) { $query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-1’ ); } } add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_category’ );
The loop in a page loads only the content of the page. Thus you see only one post. You have to set up a “Page of Posts”. You can find basic examples in the codex at Page Templates. But using it as static front page results in some problems. The links to follow pages will … Read more
get_the_content() returns unfiltered content, and using a shortcode you cannot use the_content() to return filtered content as you cannot echo inside a shortcode. Your best option here will be is to applying the_content filters to get_the_content(), something like: apply_filters( ‘the_content’, get_the_content() ); EDIT Exact usage, replace $output .= get_the_content(); with $output .= apply_filters( ‘the_content’, get_the_content() … Read more
If I enter this shortcode: [download url=”http://example.com”]Download[/download] it works fine. But you have to enter the link text as content yourself. You might have missed that, the way I read your question. Your [demo]-Shortcode throughs an error. To see this, you need to have WP_DEBUG set to true: Notice: Undefined variable: func in \wp-includes\shortcodes.php on … Read more
I’m not quite sure what you want to do as frankly, your terminology is a bit scrambled, and you example shortcode is also quite a mess. Before I start, you should start of by checking the following very important links Shortcode API WP_Query You should first start of by defining your attributes (and their defaults) … Read more
get_post() returns a post object. So you can try the following $post = get_post( 1571 ); setup_postdata( $post ); the_title(); the_content(); wp_reset_postdata();
One of the problems I have run into while trying to accomplish something like this is: WHEN are you trying to get this information. A lot of stuff happens in a WordPress page request. See: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference If you just have the raw function in your plugin file, it will try to run when the plugin … Read more
I think this is more a general question than a specific one and I’ll be treating it as such. Taxonomies in general are used to group posts together that shares the same characteristic. The post_tag and category taxonomies are the most widely and commonly used of the four build in taxonomies to achieve this. Also … Read more
Normally, posts are published by the wp_insert_post() function. Essentially, the post_status is changed from draft to publish. Nothing more to it than that, really. There is also the wp_publish_post() function, which is really only used for scheduled posts. It does the basic job of transitioning a post from “future” to “publish”, and also calls the … Read more
1st query: $exclude_post_top_stories=””; // WP_Query arguments $args = array ( ‘post_status’ => array( ‘publish’ ), ‘posts_per_page’ => ‘-1’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘orderby’ => ‘date’, ); // The Query $exclude_query = new WP_Query( $args ); // The Loop if ( $exclude_query->have_posts() ) { while ( $exclude_query->have_posts() ) { $exclude_query->the_post(); // do something $exclude_post_top_stories[] = get_the_id(); } … Read more