I'm tyring to change how the title works within the header.php file on Wordpress. At the moment I have it so it will display out the name of each page the user is on, which works well, apart from on pages that load blog posts.
I'd like it set so the "title" element within the header.php file can cope with custom names too i.e. instead of loading the name of the latest blog as the title when you visit the blog page I want it to just say Blog.
I decided to create my own variable and then using header check to see if that has been set, but I can't get it to work, placing it either before or after the call to the header file.
index.php
$header_title = "Blog";
get_header(); ?>
Then inside the header.php file I have the following code.
<title>
April Kelley |
<?php if (isset($header_title)) {
echo $header_title;
} else {
the_title();
}?>
Now to my mind this should work, so where am I going wrong?
PS. I only intend to use this $header_title variable on certain pages like index.php and seach.php where the pages pull in the blog posts themselves, so will isset still return false is the variable cannot be found?
A proper way of doing this is to use the_title filter, you don't need to modify template, e.g. :
function my_title($title, $id) {
if (is_home())
$title.= ' | Blog';
return $title;
}
add_filter('the_title', 'my_title');
If you really want to use your own var, you should read this : How to use own php variables in wordpress template?
replace
the_title();
as
echo get_the_title()
hope this work for you
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I designed a template for WordPress, I've only encountered a problem in one section.
How can I create a post to display single.php for my site?
Thanks!
Your issue is a trivial thing. In order to show your blog/website posts, you need to call the_post() function inside of a loop.
As long there are posts in your blog, the_post() should render a response. Take a look at Twenty_Fourteen single.php default template in order to get a better understanding of how things should be.
Make a back up copy of single.php, call this single-original.php.
Open single.php file. Delete the contents of single.php and place the below code in it.
<?php
$post = $wp_query->post;
if ( in_category('2') ) {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single_new.php');
} else {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single_new1.php');
}
?>
Open single-original.php and choose File > Save As and call this file single_new.php. Choose File > Save As again and call this file single_new1.php.
Upload single.php, single_new.php and single_new1.php as well as style.css, if you made changes in this.
Refresh your web page and click on one of the post titles in the category for which you are using single_new1.php.
I'm creating my first wordpress theme, and I've looked around on google, and the wordpress codex for an answer to my question, but I can't seem to find exactly what I'm looking for, or couldn't get it working.
What I'm trying to do, or trying to figure out, is how I can make it so a certain category has a certain design.
So if I wanted to make an index.php for any music videos in "www.domain.com/music/trash/drake-song.mp4.html"
the trash category, it'd have its own design, but songs in
"www.domain.com/music/good-music/coldplay-viva-la-vida.mp4.html"
the good-music category, I want it to look pretty much completely different. I've tried using something similar inside my header.php to this;
<?php
if( is_tag( 'good-music' ) ):
$my_classes = array( 'good-class', 'good-class-two' );
else:
$my_classes = array( 'not-good-class' );
endif;_
?>
but it seemed to simply change the category page.
"www.domain.com/categories/good-music"
Anyone know what I could be doing wrong? I know basic html/css/php/javascript, new to creating a WordPress theme, and can't seem to get this working..
Also:
Using XAMPP to host locally, using Friendly URL's, properly configured
In order to generate category-specific markup for a single post layout, you can put code like the below in your single.php file after the call of get_header().
Please note that this checks for your category based upon category slug. So if your category slug (the url version of your category) does not match the first arguments in the in_array() function call below, then you should change the argument to match the slug for your category.
<?php
/* Start the Loop */
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
?>
<?php
$categories = get_the_category();
$catSlugs = array();
foreach ($categories as $category){
$catSlugs[] = $category->slug;
}
if (in_array('good-music',$catSlugs)){
$post_cat = 'good-music';
} else {
$post_cat = 'not-good-music';
}
get_template_part( 'template-parts/post/content', $post_cat );
?>
<?php
endwhile; // End of the loop.
?>
It is important that this code only appear where there is a query to loop against.
Specifically, the file single.php in your theme should be the default file for displaying a single post, regardless of category. When you navigate to the url of a single post, this layout should be triggered.
As part of that triggering, a wordpress query of just that post is returned to be looped through.
Then, the code from while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); until endwhile; will run one time, because there is a single post to be processed.
If there were more than one post, such as on a category page or on your default post listing page, then the code inside of that while loop would run as many times as there are posts in the query for that layout.
If you were to place the code in the header, it won't work because the header is prepared independently of the loop that runs on this page.
You could run a custom WP_query() in the header, but that is rarely a good way to handle site content.
In this situation it would not be appropriate, because you are customizing content of existing posts, and only differentiating based upon category.
So, just use the standard layouts files with custom layout parts.
I stripped out the divs in the loop below, because you may or may not be using bootstrap.
After this code is placed on your page, you would create files called content-good-music.php and content-not-good-music.php in YOUR_THEME_DIR/template-parts/post/ directory. The key is that you would add whatever your category slug is to the end of your
These files will contain the unique markup for these kinds of posts. You can also use a similar logic in your post listing loop to give the listed posts for each category their own unique php files.
Here's some get_template_part() documentation.
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_template_part/
How to change header in Wordpress Blog page and all Post pages only.
I want a custom header in Blog page and all single posts page.
Thanks
You can use conditional tags within Wordpress:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags
Basically, you will need to create the content you want only for the blog and post pages and wrap this within the conditional tags:
P.S Don't forget to include the category, and archive pages - as well as the post pages.
is_single(), is_archive(), is_category()
<?php if (is_single()) { ?>
// This is a post page
<?php } else { ?>
//This is not a post page
<?php } ?>
Hope this helps.
To include different header for specific pages change get_header($name) function call inside templates and add $name attribute. Wordpress will load header-{name}.php if file exists, if not, default header header.php will be loaded. Check out template hierarchy for templates where you need to change get_header() function call ( single.php, page.php ).
Wordpress documentation:
get_header
template hierarchy
I'd like to implement a custom post retrieval page in wordpress. Basically, I'm using AJAX to call this page that will be passed a post ID and retrieve certain data from that post.
Note: please don't mistake this as a template question. I do not want a template for one single page -- I am looking to make this page query multiple different posts based on postID and return certain data from that post.
So I tried creating a page
<?php
$args=array(
'p'=>'77'
);
$friends = new WP_Query($args);
?>
<?php if ($friends->have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php else: ?>
<p>Sorry, no posts are available.</p>
<?php endif; ?>
But this does not work since it is not loading in the wp functions to handle the query.
Thanks in advance for any help!
You have to include the wp-blog-header.php file. If the page you are creating is in your theme's folder then you would put something like this at the top of your code
<?php require_once ('../../../wp-blog-header.php');?>
I think I guess what you are trying to do, and it sounds like you are going about it the wrong way. Do not make a 'new page' in the admin interface. What you want to do is serve up a file (JSON, XHTML fragment, whatever) to your Javascript and include in it WP data, right? I know that problem, having used it in some of my plugins.
There are two techniques:
(1) This is what you need to do: make a new plugin (just a loose php file in wp-plugins with the same format header as the other plugins in there). Write your function along these lines:
function mydatapage(){
if (...$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == the one I am using ...) {
$args=array(
'p'=>'77'
);
$friends = new WP_Query($args);
if ($friends->have_posts()) :
the_post();
the_title();
the_content();
else:>?
<p>Sorry, no posts are available.</p>
<?php endif;
die();
} //else do nothing and leave WP to serve the page normally
}
//Crucially:
add_action('init', 'mydatapage');
What that does is do a lookup when pages are loaded to see if the url matches the one you want to hijack and use to send your custom data. If it is, you send the data/file/whatever you feel like and exit (die).
Give a shout if you want more detailed syntax. It is a bit messy, but works well.
(2) Directly call your plugin file. WP will only handle files that do not already exist, and leave the rest to Apache. That means you can make a plugin file and call that directly using the .../wp-plugin/myfile.php url. You would need to include some of the WP core files to get things like WP_Query to work. It is marginally more fragile a method.
I use Barecity Theme for WordPress. i built everything, but now i need to add a single.php file to theme. now it displays all post content at homepage, I created a short_desc Custom Field. and I call it from code with;
<?php //get_post_meta($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