Use Sticky Posts. In the Post editor find the “Publish” section. Next to “Visibility” click on edit and then check the “Stick this post to the front page” option there. Click save and you’re done. In the loop, you can check if a post is_sticky(). To loop them, you can use the post__in or post_not__in … Read more
As you have stated, rank is defined by a value in a custom field, so you would just need to get the value from the custom field and display it. You can try the following inside your loop global $post; // Just make sure the custom field name is correct $rank = get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘custom_field’, … Read more
Simply add orderby to your query_posts <?php query_posts($query_string . ‘&cat=-4&orderby=date&order=DESC’); ?> Update try: global $wp_query; $args = array_merge( $wp_query->query, array(‘cat’ => -4,’orderby’ => ‘date’,’order’ => ‘ASC’)); query_posts( $args ); and if you still get the same change ASC to DESC.
Actually this was quite easy – when you know what’s missing: The current post ID for the global $wp_embed object, so it knows what to refer to. The reason is simple: oEmbeds get cached as post meta data, so without knowing the ID, the MarkUp can’t get fetched and replaced in the content. // grab a … Read more
From the code it seems like your warning comes from doing the redirect too late. redirects should be done, as a rule of thumb, not later then the init action. And after the redirect you should die() (I don’t think the wp_redirect does it for you) As for security, it is not enough to check … Read more
I don’t think you need so many transients set, one for each category. You can only use one, that is enough. Transients are quite expensive to set as it requires additional db queries, so you would want to cut down on the use. As always, I like to keep my templates simple, short and sweet, … Read more
You can get the latest post of an author adding the following code to your function: $latest_post = get_posts( array( ‘author’ => $id, ‘orderby’ => ‘date’, ‘numberposts’ => 1 )); // Since get_posts() returns an array, but we know we only // need one element, let’s just get the element we need. $latest_post = $latest_post[0]; … Read more
get_queried_object() stores the original object that was found as a match for the permalink. It’s the WP_Post object of your News Page $news_page = get_queried_object(); echo $news_page->post_title;
You could hook into template_redirect and execute a helper function: add_action( ‘template_redirect’, ‘wpse_75558_count’ ); function wpse_75558_count() { if ( is_singular() ) setPostViews( get_the_ID() ); } To display the post views, you have to use a later hook. I would recommend the_content: add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘wpse_75558_show_count’ ); function wpse_75558_show_count( $content ) { $count = getPostViews( get_the_ID() ); … Read more
If you need to search by your meta_key/meta_value then do not store them in a single key. If you store as a single key then you are going to have to store your data as serialized string, or something similar. The only way you can search that would be via an inefficient %LIKE% query which … Read more