First of all, I'm totally new to WordPress so please be patient :)
Anyway, I have created a custom theme with a bunch of pages, a menu and a startpage (index.php), and everything is working fine. I have also created a few posts and those are not working at all. I have created a small loop that display the 5 latest posts on the startpage as links with date, and they show up as intended, but if I click on one of the links the startpage just reloads. As the page has reloaded it displays the correct permalink in the browser address bar, but I'm still stuck on the startpage. Same if I try to preview my posts from WP-admin, it just display my start page.
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong here and I'm no php coder. This is the code I have in my page.php file, maybe there is something wrong with it?
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class="content">
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); the_content(); endwhile; // THE LOOP ?>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
there is a difference between posts and pages. Try to put this code into a file called index.php so it will work for posts too.
If wordpress cant find a page.php (this is for pages) or single.php (this is for posts) it will look into the index.php as a fallback.
those are the files - enjoy :)
1. style.css: your page styling goes in here.
2. index.php: acts as fallback if the specific php files are not found.
3. single.php: single posts template
4. page.php: single page styling goes here
5. archive.php: acts as archives template (by month, author,...)
6. searchform.php: style and configure your searchform here
... there are many more. here is a cheat sheet with page types / theme structure .If you need further information google for types followed by tutorial
example: wordpress single.php tutorial
all the best
fab
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I have an issue with Polylang and custom archive page template. On my main language my archive page shows page content but on second language it starts looping trough posts.
<?php
/* Template Name: Archive Page Custom */
get_header();
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
the_content();
endwhile;
?>
<?php
get_footer(); ?>
What causes this?
Cheers
I have solved this. It turns out that under Polylang settings I had to uncheck my custom taxonomies because it completely breaks the site.
EDIT: Never mind this doesn't work because as I turn it off it shows posts from all languages on my archive first page. So it still has to be turned off to filter posts between languages.
So the issue remains. Archive page with default language loads content in from the page and secondary language shows posts for some reason instead of content.
EDIT: It was a conflict with archive-portfolio.php template and also I had custom post type slug named same as my secondary translation so the page broke. I had to rename my archive-portfolio.php template to portfoliotemplate.php and it works now.
I've built a website (locally) that works just fine and, I've written the home page content in the Index page as I'm accustomed to and, different templates (page1.php, page2.php) for pages that required different layout for the 'About' and 'Contact' pages etc. Since deciding to add a blog though it has me stumped. I've written a blog page and it looks just fine but when I try to view a post I'm just directed back to index.php. I know it's down to the structure but it's confusing. An index page is mandatory, and you should probably have a front-page.php too. If that's the case..which one should I write my home page on? Index page doesn't show in the reading list and choosing "front page' as a static page works but still the blog links go back to index. If I was to put the content from the index page into front-page.php, what would I have in the index page?
Although the Wordpress docs are good I can't really find anything to suggest which way round all this stuff would be.
Your issue is that WordPress by default uses the index.php file for the blog archive (as well as other archives, etc.) and you need to use front-page.php for a dedicated home page with your custom content.
Read https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/ on how to construct a standard WordPress theme with template files that follow a standard hierarchy.
The front-page.php template file is used to render your site’s front
page, whether the front page displays the blog posts index (mentioned
above) or a static page. The front page template takes precedence over
the blog posts index (home.php) template. If the front-page.php file
does not exist, WordPress will either use the home.php or page.php
files depending on the setup in Settings → Reading. If neither of
those files exist, it will use the index.php file.
Duplicate index.php and call it front-page.php. Edit index.php to be a basic template with a standard loop (and none of your home page content) so that it can function as a blog template that displays the_excerpt or the_content, something like this:
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<?php _e( 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.', 'textdomain' ); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
See https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/the-loop/
I set my reading section to latest posts in Wordpress. My homepage logs fine but I would like to add a page title above the posts. I have looked in my theme's files and couldn't find the file to edit. As a test, I tried to add an image to my theme's loop.php and it appeared above the post on my homepage. The location was right but the image appeared on every one of my category blog list pages. How do I add a page title to the homepage that only appears on the homepage above the blog list?
Here are some resources for you to use, WordPress: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_title
Eg:
you can use
<?php echo get_the_title(); ?>
or
<?php echo get_the_title($ID); ?>
There is lot of resources on WordPress, best of luck!
Im using the theme HTML 5 Blank (http://html5blank.com/) with WordPress 3.7.1.
On my page I want to display everthing from the posts, text and images.
In the settings in wordpress admin i have it set on show hole post but it does not work.
I have olso deleted the php code in the loop that inserts the excerpt from the theme. Sitt not workning. Any ideas? I can send code if you want, for now i do not know what code can be usefull.
Jim
Replace <?php the_excerpt() ?>and add the following code to your theme's loop.
<?php the_content(); ?>
That should display the content, rather that the excerpt.
I have a site whose home page shows a single Wordpress category page. I'm using a custom theme and the index.php file there does a 301 redirect to "mysitename.com/?cat=3". This page is generated with an event calendar plugin and a lot of custom code. It works, but the displayed URL is "mysitename.com/?cat=3" which I'd prefer my visitors not see; I'd rather have the URL be just "mysitename.com", "mysitename.com/index.php", or even "mysitename.com/calendar".
The visitor can view "prev month" and "next month", which result in URLs like "mysitename.com?cat=3&eventDate=2010-07&bt=a" -- still within the same category but with additional parameters in the URL. (I am OK having a more convoluted URL like this shown to my visitors on previous/next month; it's just the initial page URL I'd like to be nicer.)
I've messed around with the permalinks but can't get nice URLs to work correctly that way. Is there an .htaccess way to do this?
In the "permalinks" section under the "Settings" tab, you can add a category base to the categories.
Thus if you have a category base of "category" and a category name "Cool Stuff" with a slug of "cool_stuff"
Your category link would link like this depending on your permalink settings.
http://yoursite.com/category/cool_stuff/
Okay. My Last answer was not base on your "edited question".
If you remove the 301 redirect to "mysitename.com/?cat=3"
you can edit the index.php file.
This will most likely take care of your url issue.
You can edit the loop to show only categories from id: 3
Thus, you will make a querypost for category 3 as follow:
<?php query_posts('showposts=9'); ?>
See Query Post # Wordpress for more info.
Put this before the loop.
The coding may look like this:
<?php query_posts('cat=3'); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) {?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<li>
<?php the_title(); ?>
<span style="float: right;"><?php the_time('m/d/y'); ?></span>
</li>
<?php endwhile; }?>
You could use .htaccess to map mywebsite.com/calendar to mywebsite/?cat=3, but WordPress will still look at the original url to find out which category to use, so this will not work.
I suggest you look in the code of the plugin to find out how it gets the current category, and maybe trick it (by an extra call to query_posts('cat=3')) to think we are looking at the url for category 3 (you don't need to display the posts, just do the query). You can even do this on your homepage (but maybe use home.php, not index.php, since the latter is a fallback for other template pages), so you don't need a redirect. But the key is that you need to look at the code of your plugin (can you tell us the name?) to find out how it works.