Depending on the theme you are using. You might want to look into creating a page for your home page and then going into settings > reading and making that page your static home page. If you want to lock a single post on your front page and your theme lets you… try : I … Read more
If you’re asking to change the number of posts from 10 to something else, you can do one of the following 1) Submit the search query as ?s=key&order=ASC&posts_per_page=5 You can achieve this by adding hidden fields to the form. Just change the number to whatever you want 2) Go to Settings > Reading, change the … Read more
There are no built-in WordPress functions to trim strings by character count. /** * Get a limited part of the content – sans html tags and shortcodes – * according to the amount written in $limit. Make sure words aren’t cut in the middle * @param int $limit – number of characters * @return string … Read more
Your custom function show_post() uses get_page_by_slug() to retrieve the specified page. Looking at source, it doesn’t look like get_page_by_slug() uses post_status. So, you’ll need to query $post->post_status within your show_post() function if you want to account for it in the function output: <?php function show_post( $path ) { $post = get_page_by_path( $path ); $content=””; if … Read more
Register a new sidebar by pasting this into your theme’s functions.php file: register_sidebars( ‘id’ => ‘patientedu’ ); Create a file called sidebar-patientedu.php and paste the following into it: <?php if (is_active_sidebar(‘patientedu’)) : ?> <div id=”sidebar”> <h2>PatientEdu Sidebar</h2> <?php dynamic_sidebar(‘patientedu’); ?> </div> <?php endif; ?> Then paste this whereever you want your sidebar to show up: … Read more
In order to use $ inside your script (You only need to change the wrapper of your script), use the following wrapper. jQuery(document).ready(function($) { // $() will work as an alias for jQuery() inside of this function }); Make sure you enqueue jQuery in one of your plugins or theme using wp_enqueue_script(‘jquery’); Read more on … Read more
wp_list_categories takes an orderby parameter which accepts : ID – Default name slug count term_group So the default behavior of wp-list-categories is to order by ID but you can specify that like so: <?php wp_list_categories(array(‘exclude’=> 73,’orderby’ => ‘ID’));?>
Adding this inside the WHILE LOOP will solve the problem. It will skip the post in the loop if this post ID is present in our array (meaning, same post went through the loop before). <?php // MAKE SURE YOU DECLARE $postsIDsArray= array(); outside of the loop, on top of it $postID = $search->post->ID; // … Read more
You will need more than one query because before querying posts you have to know what posts to exclude. I personally don’t see anything bad in ‘cutoff’. This code should work properly: Update: It breaks pagination (see comments). <?php $category_to_filter = 11; while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); $categories = get_the_category(); if( in_array($category_to_filter, $categories) && … Read more
To use gifs in WordPress you need to insert the full size of the uploaded gif (the original size). In the Media Box : Size: Full Size Any other size you choose will not render because of how GD crops and re-sizes the photos, it does so by taking a single frame, to make it … Read more