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!
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So I have a website where a custom front page needed to be built as a static page, to do this I created front-page.php
I believe the original homepage just showed a list of posts.
The issue that I am having is that I want to link the front-page.php to the original front page of the website. I've had a look at using home.php and setting the URL on the front-page.php file to <?php echo get_permalink( get_option( 'page_for_posts' ) ); ?> but this just seemed to link to a single blog post.
Any ideas how I can resolve this?
Thanks in advance.
Go to Settings > Reading and check off A static page, Below it select Home as the Homepage. That should do the trick.
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/
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
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 use Barecity Theme for WordPress. i built everything, but now i need to add a single.php file to theme. now it displays all post content at homepage, I created a short_desc Custom Field. and I call it from code with;
<?php //get_post_meta($post->ID, 'short_desc', true); ?>
it is fine. but i need to display this short desc at home page listing, and the main content at details page. how can do that?
I appreciate helps!!
It sounds like what you are trying to do is show a custom field that you have set on a post on the index page (which lists all the posts).
To do that you'll need to modify index.php by adding your snippet where you would like to have the short description.
<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'short_desc', true); ?>
You need to use echo to display the results from the get_post_meta function.
Depending on how your posts are setup you can also use the More button when you write your posts. This will cut off your post at a certain point that you decide and only show that short part on the index and archive pages.
Another option would be to use
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
Which shows the first 55 words (this can be adjusted though) of the post.
Hope that helps,
Paul