I just finished my first custom wordpress site, using my custom theme, and now, I was starting to translate the site, I need it to have 3 languages.
So, I installed the plugin Polylang. But, I don't know why, when this plugin is active, my home page that is a custom page (page-home.php) is not being considered the homepage anymore. Since I never used this plugin before and I don't have much knowledge in wordpress, I have no idea how to solve this problem.
Can anyone help me?
I solved the problem. If you are using a custom page as your homepage, you first have to edit it. Just go there and save it, to assign this page to the default language you chose.
After that, you have to go to every page, post, custom post, and taxonomy, and save it using the default language. If you don't do that, the posts or the other contents of that current language will not be shown on the site, cause they have no language associated to it.
Then, you have to create a new version of every content you have on the admin (posts, pages, taxonomies) for the other languages you gonna use.
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I have found multiple postings with similar phrases but all too specific to their issue and not addressing this...
Most of the website requires a login session. I have built a custom plugin for WordPress to handle my CMS needs, etc. I have included a blog in the website. However, my issue is... How do I require login when "blog" is selected on the menu. AND I do NOT want to show WordPress anything. I want the blog to look like the rest of the site.
Basically I want to "nest" the blog in my website with one required login session. I have the menu item "blog" set as a category so as to pull the WordPress pre-built functionality. So this is the only item I am not able to php a login session as there really isn't a page to do so.
I have read several things. But finding them a bit confusing. Many say to change the wp-config.php but I am not comfortable with changing core files within WordPress. What am I missing or misunderstanding?
UPDATE:
Would changing the menu selection to a "page" instead of "category" and insert php file within that page with a redirect using header('Location:mysite.com/blog_files (of course after session verified) to redirect where WordPress has stored my blog? Is this a viable work-a-round?
You can use your wordpress as API point. Wordpress comes with REST API. So what you can do is get all posts after certain action. Then parse them in html.
There are 2 things to keep on mind.
1st is that everything on wordpress is post.
2nd is that to change certain parts of how api works you add filters to functions.php.
Hope I was helpful.
UPDATE
I have successfully "nested" my blog into my website so that login session is required. Changing the menu selection to a "page" instead of "category" and insert php file within that page with a redirect using header('Location:mysite.com/blog_files (of course after session verified) to redirect where WordPress has stored my blog files. This was quick and easy. However, it still requires WP login to participate in the blog. :(
I use Elementor page builder on my WordPress site. There is a problem with it - by default it doesn't allow editing WooCoomerce Shop/Products pages. The solution they say is to add to page templates code. I, being a beginner with no idea of coding, cannot figure out which file to add this code to and where in that file. I have been researching and trying to fix this myself for two weeks now, in vain. Please help me achieve this.
Here's what Elementor say: "Sorry, the content area was not found in your page. You must call the_content function in the current template, in order for Elementor to work on this page."
Go to Elementor setting and then check products in post types
Go to Products, click Edit on the product you want to edit, input something (ie. a full stop-sign '.') in the WP Editor, click Update. (See attached screenshot.)
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There seems to be a misconception that Elementor can be used to "edit" any content.
For Elementor to work on a "Page" i.e. the post type that uses either the page.php or any theme declared page templates it requires the_content(); function to present in the code.
Issue #1: WooCommerce uses the woocommerce_content(); function to return the content of the shop.
Issue #2: The Shop output does not use the "Page" or Custom Page template - the output is equivalent to the index.php or home.php, neither of which are editable via Elementor.
Unless you are willing to write a pretty sophisticated function to collect all those elements' data and filter them into the_content(); function, there is currently no way of editing such content directly.
I know it's not the solution you are looking for but that is the current state of affairs. Having said that, some of us are working on all sorts of solutions and maybe, just maybe - we'll come up with a way to have this option available soon ;)
For shop page you should go to Elementor setting and then check products in post types.
Because shop page products are not the content but posts it's the solution.
So inlcude products in post types and edit with elmentor, if for some reason you can't see 'edit with elementor' under shop page, then just open shop page and add
/?elementor and it would enable elementor
NO need to add this code in any page follow these instruction.
You just need to clear cache and cookies your browser, Some time website take previous data to show the web page and give this error.
or
if you open your website private mode then login and go to the page by Elementor you will never face this problem.
I have a question regarding how best to build a widget/plug-in for WordPress.
I have tried to code this thing out but unfortunately to no avail but that's because I'm increasingly thinking I'm going about it the entirely wrong way.
This is what I'm trying to achieve:
I have built a theme from scratch. In this theme I have two content areas. The larger of the two contains the main content and the smaller of the two (proposed widget/plug-in) contains supplementary information (opening times, Facebook feed). I don't want this widget/plug-in to appear on every page and would like the ability to turn it on or off within the usual WordPress admin area.
The impression I am getting is that I can build the widget that contains the content I want (with necessary forms to change said content) but it is either on for ALL pages or off for ALL pages, no sort-of page specific functionality. That's where I'm thinking a plug-in would extend the functionality and allow me to be more page specific with it. That is my current set-up with a theme I'm running and plug-in I added (neither of which were coded by me) but I would like to repeat it as best as possible.
Would it be right to assume that widgets are not really designed to have page specific functionality and that function should be left down to a plug-in?
I appreciate this question asks nothing really in the way specific advice but I would just like an opinion or two on the best approach before I go away and create it - this is my main struggle at the moment.
Thanks for looking.
This can be done with the Jetpack plugin. Once activated you can choose what widgets display on what pages:
The Widget Visibility module enables you to configure widgets to appear only on certain pages (or be hidden on certain pages) by using the Visibility panel.
Visibility is controlled by five aspects: page type, category, tag, date, and author. For example, if you wanted the Archives widget to only appear on category archives and error pages, choose “Show” from the first dropdown and then add two rules: “Page is 404 Error Page” and “Category is All Category Pages.”
Originally posted here
It is also possible with the Display Widgets plugin.
This is a common problem. The usual remedy is to use an existing plugin that allows widgets to be tied to pages.
The 3 most popular plugins for this are:
JetPack
Per Page Widgets
Widget Logic
I am new to using Wordpress as a developer as opposed to just using the dashbord but am struggling to understand a few things and would really appreciate some help.
For a site that does not require a blog - do you just create custom/specific page templates for each page that your site requires?
If so - presumably you code the content directly. But then how does the client edit their website's about page or any other page for example - because doing it through the dashboard isn't going to use the necessary CSS hooks without using classes, id's and HTML?
As a beginner to Wordpress - I can't see that posts are used on sites that don't have a blog, but am I correct or is using posts the way a client can edit content on their site, but just have posts styled to look like normal content?
Or am I wrong in thinking a company (I am starting as an intern at a web dev company that use WordPress) provides the tools or at least configures WordPress to enable the client to change content?
Any help getting me to understand the basic concept and way a developer would create a custom WordPress site would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
You can use page.php. In WordPress everyone create at least one custom template type to get wider design for custom pages.
You can refer here for more info.
Use Advanced Custom Fields with page templates. Say you are making an About page, call that template about and select that template in the backend editor. Once you save the page, the acf fields will show up and you can populate the content.
ACF: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/
Page Templates: https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/page-template-files/page-templates/
I'm trying to figure out how a certain WordPress sets things up. I'd like to have a special page where I could make WP calls and interact with the theme, without affecting anything else.
I just making test.php and putting it into my theme's folder, but that doesn't work.
#Eliran provides one possible option, but you could also add a page in the back-end of WP, just make sure it has the slug 'test', and change your 'test.php' filename to 'page-test.php'. If you're worried about the public seeing this, set the page visibility in the admin to 'private'.
Edit:
to move your understanding along a little further also, you should review the way that WordPress determines what file to grab to render a particular URL. This can be pretty confusing to start with, so be patient if you're not familiar with it, but it's at the heart of designing WP themes. I'll link to the examples, and if you scroll down a little there's a diagram that, along with the text, will help you see how WP is 'thinking'.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy#Examples
You can see here: Page Templates
all you need to do is create a page named page-{custom-name}.php and add it to the theme folder.
and inside this php file add:
/*
Template Name: My Custom Page
*/
and than to use this page you need to go to the wp-admin, add/edit a page and chose it:
inside the php file everything you do is classic wordpress.
all this is giving you is a custom page tamplate.
Put it in your root folder. When you go to look at it, you'd look at www.mywebsite.com/test.php
It may be other ways to do this, but I rather use the rewrite API and custom query vars, to create custom routes.
A previous answer on the subject can be found here
The basic idea is to add a new url rule, catch the query var with the parse_request filter and maybe do a die or redirect to prevent the default wordpress template from loading.
I prefer this over theme templates, because with templates you need to create a page for each new url, and if that page gets acidentally deleted, that functionality would stop working.
What Pages are Not:
Pages are not Posts, nor are they excerpted from larger works of fiction. They do not cycle through your blog's main page. WordPress Plugins are available to change the defaults if necessary.
Pages cannot be associated with Categories and cannot be assigned Tags. The organizational structure for Pages comes only from their hierarchical interrelationships, and not from Tags or Categories.
Pages are not files. They are stored in your database just like Posts are.
Although you can put Template Tags and PHP code into a Page Template file, you cannot put these into the Page or Post content without a WordPress Plugin like Exec-PHP which Read overwrites the code filtering process.
Pages are not included in your site's feed.
Pages and Posts may attract attention in different ways from humans or search engines.
Pages (or a specific post) can be set as a static front page if desired with a separate Page set for the latest blog posts, typically named "blog."
More About Pages.
In WordPress to add a new page you have to log in to the admin/backend and from the pages menu you can add a new page. In this case, you can select templaes for your page and also you can create a custom page template for that page.
You may read Createing a new page in WordPress. and custom Page template in WordPress.