Here are the steps I would take. Make a backup of the database backup and store it someplace safe Find out what version of WordPress the site was running when the backup was done like this: open the sql dump file in a text editor and search for db_version. Use that value to find the … Read more
pagination for single post by category
Try the following: Right click on this link and save the XML full of dummy content provided by WordPress In the sample data, you can remove the unwanted data such as pages, comments, categories, etc. Go to Tools > Import in the admin panel Install the “WordPress” importer from the list Activate & Run Importer … Read more
you have to set “post_per_page” to “-1”. Add this code to your home or index.php. WP_Query (recommended) $args = array(‘posts_per_page’ => -1); $the_query = new WP_Query( $args ); if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) { while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); the_title(); the_content(); endwhile; /* Restore original Post Data */ wp_reset_postdata(); } else { // no posts … Read more
it looks like that you need to add custom meta box to your post page. The simplest way it could be to use Advanced Custom Fields, check out Google for some tutorials, but of course you need to install additional plugin. (video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqMatzVoSA ) If you want to achieve that without a plugin you … Read more
One menu for frontpage (one pager), and a different menu for posts
This has worked for me. Can you try it and replace the excluded ID by the id of post you want to exclude. add_filter( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_specific_post_id’ ); function exclude_specific_post_id( $query ) { if ( $query->is_main_query() ) { $query->set( ‘post__not_in’, array( ‘YOUR_EXCLUDED_POST_ID_HERE’ ) ); } }
Your question is slightly ambiguous, but I read it this way: given an author and you want to know the three categories in which has published most posts. Let’s use wp_query to get there. $author=”johndoe”; $author_posts = new WP_Query (array ( ‘author’ => $author, ‘posts_per_page’=>-1, )); Now we have an array of all posts by … Read more
Ended up finding a plugin that allows me to customize the permalinks to solve my problem. https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-permalinks/
The wordpress importer / exporter should work for this task (maintaining post dates and comments), but it’s better to test it before deleting the online blog. My advice is to create first a fresh install in a folder (so you’ll can temporary reach your new installation at www.yoursite/folder/ ) and test if everything works fine … Read more