I have been trying to make my website on Wordpress. I am using Brave Zeenat as my primary and Grido as my blog theme.
I have read many tutorials in places, which discuss how to apply a customized flavour of the main theme on a static page, e.g. Blog. However, the main theme I am using does not appeal to me as a blog theme at all, so I wanted to do something entirely different, so I have tried two methods.
First, I tried to just create a page named Blog and force it to take a theme of my choice using the Page Theme plugin. That worked instantly, but the blog page is empty and would not accept articles of certain categories by default like this.
Second, I tried to not use any plugin at all, and use a custom PHP file instead, which sets some loops and calls a theme. This file blog.php had to be in the main theme directory, otherwise it would not be applicable as a template from the page settings in Wordpress dash.
So I put it with my main theme, but call to load the other theme, like this:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Blog
*/
$paged = get_query_var('paged');
query_posts('cat=0&paged='.$paged);
global $more;
$more = 0;
load_template(WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/themes/grido_v1.0.1/index.php');
?>
Eventually I only want to see category no.9, but for now, I left it as 0, which should display all categories. But when I run this with Page Theme plugin disabled, I get this error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function themify_get() in /var/sites/v/visualdeceptions.info/public_html/wp-content/themes/grido_v1.0.1/index.php on line 10.
Now, although this is a themify error, I am sure if I try to use other premium themes as well, I will encounter very similar errors, because I have only set a custom php file, and no style, header, footer, etc. But I am not sure how to do it.
Try to add getheader() and getfooter() in the code
<?php
/*
Template Name: Blog
*/
get_header(); //HERE
$paged = get_query_var('paged');
query_posts('cat=0&paged='.$paged);
global $more;
$more = 0;
load_template(WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/themes/grido_v1.0.1/index.php');
get_footer(); //HERE
?>
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I am making a wordpress theme, in which I have different skins and templates, Is it a good idea to use get_template_part() function to load different chunks/templates instead of having one single file. I find it useful however my only concern is, will this function put load on server or effect the performance in any way ? I am using it like below:
/* Post Tags Template */
get_template_part( 'templates/post_tags' );
/* Post Meta Template */
get_template_part( 'templates/post_meta' );
I am struggling with something that appears to be easy, page templates. I have read plently posts on this, people seem to forget to put the comment at the top of the page and can't get it to show up in the drop down menu on pages. I can do this, my problem is the next stage.
I have written the most basic template (custom-page.php):
<?php
/*
Template Name: Test template
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<h1>Teams!</h1>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
It shows up and I can select it on the new page sidebar. However when I visit that new page it seems to have defaulted the archive page using the content template include.
Thanks in advance.
If you put the following in your footer, you should be able to grok some further information about how your template is being selected (and know exactly what might be happening).
<?php global $template;
echo(basename($template)); ?>
Then look for the template name in your footer. It's possible (like #adomnom said) that you have a slug conflict. There are a handful of other strange scenarios that could be caused by plugins, custom functions, or other factors as well.
By the sounds of things, it could be conflicting with another template.
For example, if your page has the slug 'category' and is set to use the custom template 'custom-template.php', it would conflict with (and be overridden by) category.php, which is the default template for showing posts for a specific category.
I recommend changing the slug to see if that's the problem.
i am new to wordpress , i was given a task to convert a web site into wordpress. Following is what i have done.
i changed the header of twentyten theme and added lot of javascript lib which were included on the original page.
i changed the index.php page and added the tables and divs so that site can have look and feel what it had before.
After reading bit of codex. i added the following at the bottom of the page to show wordpress comments.
<?php
/* Run the loop to output the posts.
* If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
* called loop-index.php and that will be used instead.
*/
get_template_part( 'loop', 'index' );
?>
</div><!-- #content -->
</div><!-- #container -->
Till here every thing works fine and wordpress is show comments on this page as well. Now in the menu there is another page called next_level.php so i thought to display the commenting functionality of wordpress at the bottom of that page as well. so what i did as follows.
i included the same get_header() in the next_level.php page so that header source remains the same.
i had few database queries running to display this page contents and for that i imported few tables from the previous site into the wordpress database. working fine.
The only problem i have is to show a commenting machenism of wordpress at the bottom of this page. Please guide,correct,suggest and help how to achieve this. Sorry for the long post.
Hey, I couldn't really understand the process you did or the result required, but I think this is the only line you need to display the comments at the bottom:
<?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>
In This Page http://atthy.com/blog/
I'm using Custom template to show the list of blog posts, Since, I use home.php file to display custom home page. I use query_posts() since its a custom template. I created a page in wp admin with the custom blog Home template. Everything is fine. But I can't get read more.. links to work, when using the_content('read more..')
When I use the_content('read more..') whole post content is displayed without cutting it off after <!--more--> and also, read more link is not showing up.
I read through wp codex http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts and even resetted global $more to 0
Here is the page template I'm using. http://pastebin.com/VTvN5dtT
What am I doing wrong?? Please Help.
I've not tested this myself, but according to http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More#How_to_use_Read_More_in_Pages, the
global $more;
$more = 0;
needs to be inside the loop and before the_content('read more..');. As such, in your pastebin code, move lines 15-16 to line 30. Like I said, I've not tested this, but give it a whirl and see what happens.
You need to make sure that the statements:
global $more;
$more = 0;
are placed after the call to the_post()
I have a custom template for my portfolio page. However, after switching theme, it's gone because it is in my previous theme's folder.
Technically, I can copy that file into my new theme folder. However, I plan to change theme every two weeks and this becomes non-trivial. Is there a way to always have a bunch of common template files available to me no matter when and how often I switch theme? (In other words, I want to create template files that are not dependent on themes.)
Thanks!
There is, using template_redirect, which you would put in the functions.php file.
function uniquename_default_template() {
global $wpdb;
if(get_post_type() == 'posttype') : /* You could use is_single() instead of get_post_type() == '' or any type of conditional tag) */
include(TEMPLATEDIR . 'path/to/theme/file.php'); /* You could use TEMPLATEDIR to get a file from a template folder, or PLUGINDIR to get a file from the plugins directory - doesn't support HTTP requests */
exit; endif;
}
add_action('template_redirect', 'uniquename_default_template');
Hope it helps.