I'm having quite a weird issue with my WordPress site. I am building a theme from scratch and I'm trying to make change to the containers on my blog page (page.php and single.php). Weirdly enough, I have made no major changes to the code other than add a wrapper, but the changes aren't showing up.
I've made many themes without this issue so I'm unsure what's going wrong this time. I have set the blog page to be the posts page in the settings so I can't understand why the template won't update. The code I have is below, and is just the standard WordPress code with the exception of 'grid wrapper' and attempting to remove the sidebar which also shows.
I have done quite a bit of research on this to see what the problem could be, but sadly the only post similar was in 2014 with no answer.
<div class="container main-content">
<div class="grid wrapper">
<section class="the-content">
<main>
<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php while ( have_posts() ): the_post(); ?>
<?php get_template_part('template-parts/content', 'page'); ?>
<?php endwhile; // End of the loop. ?>
</main>
</section>
</div>
</div>
Long story short, my content shows just fine. I just can't edit the wrapper which contains that content.
I would change parameters in get_template_part()
This is how it supposed to be used: Understanding get_template_part
So if you have blank Wordpress file structure, I'm not sure if you have template-parts for sure. You can have them only if you intentionally made them.
Use wordpress Wp-Super_cache Plugin
I had the same issue. Most likely index.php is overriding your file as in my case. It depends how your theme handles the loop so check out on your index.php and change it there.
If i remember well, the blog page set in the back-office reference first at home.php and then index.php. Page and single aren't call.
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So, i finally got my css and js scripts to load on WP
Now there is but one thing i need to get done.
i have my own theme, including header.php, footer.php, page.php
header.php and footer.php is working just fine, loading scripts and showing properly, but now i need to add all the other content.
my page.php is currently:
<?php /* Template Name: CustomPageT1 */ ?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
I would need to somehow add html content to pages, i have about 20 ready made .php pages which needs to be transfered to WP.
Soooo how do i go about making new page (pages -> add new) and using page template while getting the html content to show up?
I've tried to just make new page and in text mode add up all the html into page, but it only shows empty page with header and footer, so the problem is most likely the page.php and i have no idea how to get it to work.
You can do look like this:
<?php /* Template Name: CustomPageT1 */ ?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
the_content();
endwhile;
?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
You are on the good way. While developing a custom theme from scratch is a great challenge it's not too hard.
I could recommend to take it easy and follow this tutorial I found really helpful some time ago, I learned a lot there:
Developing a WordPress Theme from Scratch
You must have the official source documentation always in your mind:
Theme Development
Do some reading and you will see that making themes is really fun and gratifying :)
EDIT:
I would recommend picking a good starter theme or framework and work using child themes. You have plenty of them to pick.
To get started adding a new page to your WordPress site, find the Pages menu in the WordPress Dashboard Navigation menu. Click Add new.
The WordPress page editor looks nearly identical to the post editor, except for a few different boxes located on the right side of the screen.
Add the title of the page, like About. Note: If you have pretty permalinks set up, the title of your page will also be the URL slug.
Next, add some content.
The Publish section of the page editor is exactly the same as for writing posts. When you’re ready to publish, you can either publish immediately, save this or a draft, or schedule the page to be published later.
The Page Attributes section applies a parent page and template to your new page. For the Parent section, you can arrange your pages into hierarchies. For example, you could create this new page with additional pages under it. There are no limits to how many levels you can nest pages.
Some WordPress themes have custom page templates, so the next Template section allows you to apply a template to your new page.
The Order box allows you to order your page numerically. Pages are usually ordered alphabetically, but you can choose your own order by entering a number in this field.
Preview the page one last time, then click Publish. You’ve added a new page to your WordPress site.
This is how your
your index.php should look like :
<?php
get_header();?>
<div class="YourContainer">
<div class="Whatever">
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="ContentSectionDiv">
<?php the_content();?>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else: ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php get_footer();?>
you can make also a custom loop
<?php
$arg = array("post_type" => "services",
"posts_per_page" => 9,
"order_by" => "date",
"order" => "ASC",
);
$services = new WP_Query($arg);
if ($services->have_posts()):;
while ($services->have_posts()):$services->the_post();
the_content();
endwhile;
endif;
?>
I'm trying to customize the archive-product page, and it works perfectly while I'm on my local server, but when I move it online, it's switches back to the default template. I'm trying to fix this for a week now, I've read all the other answers regarding this issue, but most of them are for an older version of woocommerce or the solution just doesn't work.
As a last refugee from madness, I've deleted all the archive-product.php file I can find, even the one in the woocommerce source folder, but nothing changed, I don't know where the site is getting the template from. The page have become self aware and I am going crazy because I have no idea what to do next.
Here is the difference between the page on local and online server
Please check if you have this in your functions.php, if not add:
add_theme_support( 'woocommerce' );
In theme root folder, add the file woocommerce.php and in that file set your own layout. For example:
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="sidebar">
// sidebar
</div>
<div class="inner">
<?php if ( have_posts() ) :
while(have_posts()) : the_post();
<?php woocommerce_content(); ?>
<?php
endwhile;
endif;?>
</div>
</div>
For more details: go through https://docs.woothemes.com/document/third-party-custom-theme-compatibility/
Trying my best to wrap my head around wordpress search process and results.
Been reading and researching online for about 8 hours straight at this stage and have gotten almost nowhere.
I have a completely custom theme, designed by a friend for a client. I have a search box in a nav bar at the top of the page, inside the header. I'd like the user to be able to search the site's content from that search box in the nav bar at any time. I've found plenty of examples of this being accomplished on other pages, though they often seem to be using a ready-made theme.
Eventually I'd like to be able to understand what's going in the search.php file well enough to edit it along with the searchform.php file so that the search box and results appear unified with the rest of the theme.
At the moment the closest I've gotten to having anything functioning at all is the inclusion of a quantity of search results showing the appropriate number of hits expected, but I still can not figure out how to display a result.
I've been combing through others' page sources and every hit I can google about customising or just explaining the search.php file, and yet all I keep finding is "read the Creating a Search Page" and "it must be a theme issue." This is not gainful information.
My understanding of what's being taught in the "Creating a Search Page" info is that it describes the steps for creating a custom search page that one can hyperlink / permalink to, but which is unrelated to the default search function within the wordpress kit. Indeed, I've successfully created a custom search page, but it behaves simply as a stand-alone page, and is not related to a customised search results page. To customise the look of default search function results, I understand the search.php file must be edited. So far the "what to edit" within that file escapes me, but for now I'd just like to understand why I am seeing the correct number of results, but no actual results.
My search.php file looks like this:
<?php get_header(); ?>
THIS IS THE TOP OF SEARCH.PHP
<section id="primary" class="content-area">
<div id="content" class="site-content" role="main">
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
<header class="page-header">
<h1 class="search-title">
<?php echo $wp_query->found_posts; ?> <?php _e( 'Search Results Found For', 'locale' ); ?>: "<?php the_search_query(); ?>"
</h1>
</header><!-- .page-header -->
<?php
// Start the Loop.
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
/*
* Include the post format-specific template for the content. If you want to
* use this in a child theme, then include a file called called content-___.php
* (where ___ is the post format) and that will be used instead.
*/
get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() );
endwhile;
/*
// Previous/next post navigation.
twentyfourteen_paging_nav();*/
else :
// If no content, include the "No posts found" template.
get_template_part( 'content', 'none' );
endif;
?>
</div><!-- #content -->
</section><!-- #primary -->
THIS IS AFTER THE SECTION OF SEARCH.PHP
<?php
// get_sidebar( 'content' );
// get_sidebar();
get_footer();
*Note: The notes in CAPS are to help me understand what content is coming from where as I try to figure out what each phpiece of the puzzle is doing.
Also, the twentyfourteen_paging_nav line is commented out as it kept spitting back an error. The original search.php was from a (default theme?) folder called "twentyfourteen". My current folder is called "ewgi2014" however, replacing twentyfourteen_paging_nav with ewgi2014_paging_nav spat back the same error, and I can't find any more useful information on the topic. Also, when looking at other sample search.php files I didn't see the paging_nav call, so I tried commenting it out, and was able to at least avoid the error, though I still don't understand it.
Sample output on the page after searching for the term, say, "program" is:
8 Search Results Found For: "program"
...with nothing else written beyond that.
Not entirely relevant, I believe, but my searchform.php looks like this:
<form role="search" method="get" class="search-form" action="<?php echo home_url( '/' ); ?>">
<label>
<input type="search" class="search-field" placeholder="search …" value="" name="s" title="Search for:" />
</label>
<input type="submit" class="search-submit" value="Search" />
</form>
I've read and re-read the "Creating a Search Page" page from the Codex so many times I could probably recite it by heart, but haven't found any solutions within.
I've read the stackoverflow hit about "How to display Wordpress search results?" and have tried the code from ThemeShaper, but that throws an error on the shape_content_nav line(s).
I've read this and ... and apparently I can't link to all the other things I've read as this is my first post, but I have been reading a lot, and fiddling, and making very little headway.
Apologies for the long-winded post. Just trying to be thorough and show my research and current point of understanding.
What happens if you put
the_title();
Directly after your while statement?
Each time you loop within the while loop, you are processing each post. Currently, on each loop, you are entering a content-*.php file, where * depends on the post format. Does that file exist?
I am building a theme in WordPress and being a little out of practise I am struggling to make The Loop work properly. I have inserted the most basic loop into the theme and it displays the content fine.. but when I click onto another page or the news page etc, it still just displays the home page.
I'm not sure if I'm just being oblivious to some blindingly obvious problem with my code, but I assumed that the loop displayed whichever page you were currently viewing, or do I have to set up a mishmash of if(is_page('home')) then do a certain wp_query etc?
The loop code I have is inserted below, and if theres any information I forgot I will try update this post with it.
<?php query_posts(); ?>
<div class="content">
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<h2><?php the_title() ;?></h2>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p>Sorry, no posts to list</p>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
Summary: The Loop is only displaying Homepage content on every page.
edit:
Even after disabling my plugin with the first loop in it, the proper Loop isn't working. it is the exact code posted above, and it just won't display the page I am on, or the news on the correct page or anything.... what am i missing
Try removing the query_posts(); line and try again
Apparently... My WordPress install doesn't work with pretty permalinks. As soon as I set it back to default settings, it all worked fine, but if I choose any option other than default, then only the homepage shows up (on any theme).
I have some custom post types, such as 'review'. I can't seem to find out how to make a section (e.g., www.mysite.com/reviews/) which works like the blog home page, but lists reviews instead of posts (with pagination and everything). I'd like to use a separate template for it too.
Create a page called reviews and then create a new template in your theme folder called page-reviews.php. Add all the necessary elements to the template and include a query_posts in front of your post loop. It should look like this:
<?php query_posts("post_type=reviews"); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) :?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="post" >
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" ><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div><!-- Post ends -->
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else: ?>
<p>Sorry, we could not find what you were looking for</p>
<?php endif; wp_reset_query(); ?>
You need help getting .htaccess to convert your categories into hard URLs. I thought WP did this automatically so you'll want to look and make sure you have set up the directory permissions on WP so it can write to your .htaccess file.
Please read this guide and it will be cleared up.
Duplicate the file in your theme called "single.php" and rename it to "single-reviews.php"
Since "single.php" is used for your regular posts, you can append the name of the custom post type to the end of "single-" to automatically use that.
Now once inside of the file "single-reviews.php" you can adjust the layout to be how ever you want.
If you get a 404 error, or it is not showing you the correct layout, you may need to flush the rewrite rules. You can do this two ways.
Go to the permalinks page in your backend and it will sometimes auto flush them.
The best way to do it is in your "functions.php" file in your theme directory add the following code:
add_action ( 'init', 'flush_rewrite_rules' );
function flush_rewrite_rules()
{
global $wp_rewrite;
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
}
Create a new page called reviews. Create a new page template that calls the custom post type. Assign the page template to the page...