Display most recent post on homepage?
In the admin panel, Go to Settings > Reading and set Blog pages show at most to 1 post.
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Category List (Archive) Page Template By Category
You can create a category template named category-foo.php this will be applied only to category with slug foo. You can thus create custom template for different categories. Source – Codex page for Category template Note – If you want to do some minor changes such as show foo in a category-1 and bar on other, … Read more
Full Width Main Post
It’s certainly possible, and is a common thing to do with WordPress: <?php $q = new WP_Query(‘category_name=category_breaking’); // query that gets all posts in category “category_breaking” if( $q->have_posts() ) : // if there are posts returned by query… echo “<div id=’breaking_news’>”; // start the breaking news section while( $q->have_posts() ) : $q->the_post(); // start looping … Read more
wp_tag_cloud() and the_taxonomies() work but not the_tag()
the_tags() only work within the loop; possibly try to use wp_get_post_tags() where you can pass the post ID
Show featured image next to post-teasers in Genesis Framework?
(Cut/pasted from the OP.) SOLUTION: As it turns out, this is very simple. Go to your Dashboard –> Genesis –> Theme Settings Now in the box labelled “Content Archives” select “Display Post Excerpts” from the drop down menu. Now make sure the “Include the Featured Image” box is checked and select your image size. Save … Read more
Most recent post from another database
The WordPress wpdb class is a little different than the normal way of querying in that you run “vanilla” database queries. You can see documentation on the wpdb class on the WordPress docs: http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb#Run_Any_Query_on_the_Database Also, in regard to your code, you should be able to change the line here: $originaldb->query_posts( ‘posts_per_page=1’ ); To something like … Read more
Create dropdown list post
Hey @Ruriko … its a 3 step action. get the current category ID get the posts for this specific category get the posts into a select menu Please note that this code would use the first category id altough you might assign several categories to the same post. . <?php // FIRST CATEGORY NAME $category … Read more
XML-RPC and post_date
There are a couple of issues here. First of all, wp.editPost takes a fourth parameter before the content struct -> the ID of the post you’re trying to edit (should be an integer). Second, you’re passing a string for the post_date, so the client automatically converts this to a <string> tag before sending it to … Read more
slideshow is not showing in a post call with ajax
When you load a page that contains a normal static post, there is some JavaScript that is called on page load to instantiate your slider. Something like: jQuery(document).ready(function($){ $(‘.sliders’).someSliderScript(); }); This finds all of the elements that should have a slider applied and runs all the necessary code to set it up and make it … Read more
White Blank Page when Updating and Publishing Page/Post
It’s likely a plugin. Disable them, and see if that fixes it. If it does, enable one by one, until you find the culprit. If it’s not a plugin (and even if it is), you can try to increase the memory allocated for PHP. Add this to your config.php: define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’); You can read more … Read more