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).
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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.
I am trying to create a theme for Wordpress where I have
0. landing page with static info and 6 latest posts. When user clicks on post title it is supposed to open it
1. all articles page with the same clickable function
What I've done so far
0. Pages index.php and page.php(this is the articles list page). In Wordpress settings those pages are added to "Pages" and page.php is child of index.php
1. This is my code in both files.
<?php
if (have_posts()) :
while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<article class="post">
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<?php the_content(); ?>
</article>
endwhile;
else :
echo '<p>No content found</p>';
endif;
?>
The problem:
It redirects me to the homepage again, just adding post ID to the link. The post IS actually displayed at the bottom of the page, but the previous content is still showing up (I mean, homepage is still there, just with the post at the bottom).
So, what may be wrong?
P.S. I don't have any active plugins and I have default .htaccess
Your problem is hard to understand, have you tried saving your Permalinks again and reproducing the problem in a private browser screen? (301 redirects get be cached as long as possible in your browser, so that might be a reason you (still) get redirected)
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;
?>
My Wordpress websites are not using single.php to show posts on the website. Every time I open a post, it opens it in index.php.
My single.php looks like this
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<? echo the_content(); ?>
<? endwhile;
endif; ?>
<? get_footer();
?>
How can I fix this?
I had the same problem with neither the single-CUSTOM-TYPE.php nor the single.php being rendered after clicking the single-post-link.... only index.php instead of the correct file...
What helped me was a simple change back to Standard Permalinks in "Settings" -> "Permalinks" and a restore back to "Name of the Post" (Beitragsname)....
...maybe this might help someone else as well...
greetz
This happens if the LOOP is not correctly setup ensure that index.php, and single.php contains the LOOP.
The loop normally looks something like this, but will change to setup requirements.
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
The Wordpress Codex site is pretty awesome and will answer most questions, check out http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop
Furthermore questions and discussions such as this one is more ideal if you post on stacks sister site Wordpress Stackexchange. I expect this question will be deleted or moved to https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/.
You should check your loop.php or loop-single.php weather it is routing from these files or not this are the page from where it will bring the data from database
I'm pretty new to WordPress but have spent some 50 odd hours studying up on it, trying things out and such and have the feeling I got a pretty good handle on it now..
However the one thing I simply cannot get working is to have a page spit out a list of posts of a certain category.
Here is my example: http://dev.jannisgundermann.com/zoeikin/graphic-design/typographic-posters
I have a post that if I go to it directly works correctly, but does not show up on this page.
The post direct link.
The category id is '3' while the category name is 'typographic-posters'.
I have a custom page template for the typographic-posters page that looks like this:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Typographic Posters
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php if (in_category('3')): ?>
<div class="post">
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<div class="post-description">
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
<?=get_image('flutter-image');?>
</div>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Using this code however the page only shows gets the header, sidebar and nothing else..
If someone could help me out that would really help me get a handle on this filtering of wordpress categories.
Thanks for reading,
Jannis
in_category will only work outside of the loop on a single page. I suggest using the query_posts function to solve this problem. You may use query_posts('cat=3') or query_posts('category_name=typographic-posters') to get the posts you are looking for.
Once obtained, just use the normal WordPress loop to access these posts.
The easiest way is to create a file called category-3.php and use the standard code from normal index.php or category.php file. Wordpress will take care of fetching posts only from category with id=3 and it's child categories.
in_category will only work outside of the loop on a single page. I
suggest using the query_posts function to solve this problem. You may
use query_posts('cat=3') or
query_posts('category_name=typographic-posters') to get the posts you
are looking for.
Once obtained, just use the normal WordPress loop to access these
posts.
This worked excellent, but make sure that you go into Settings > Reading and set the posts page to the -- Select -- option or it will override this query and dump all recent posts there regardless of category.
Simply add before the loop:
<?php query_posts="cat=3&showposts=5">
This will force the loop to display 5 posts (showposts=5) from category 3 (cat=3).
I would 2nd Eimantas' suggestion. The Template Hierarchy will use the category-3.php to display posts in that category. Usually you can just copy a theme's index.php or category.php to category-3.php and adjust that template for any customization you need. Plus the category template will better support pagination of posts.
But if you need to stick with a Page to display those posts, also see the Page of Posts example.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts
Just so you know where these answers are coming from...there are a lot more interesting functions you can do with query_posts as well.
This plugin could also help you if you want to be able to change the displayed categories without going through the code :
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-category-excluder/
I have filtered post by category Id using the method below:
query_posts('cat=1&showposts=3');
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) :
// if(1) {
//echo the_category_ID();
the_post();
/**
* The default post formatting from the post.php template file will be used.
* If you want to customize the post formatting for your homepage:
*
* - Create a new file: post-homepage.php
* - Copy/Paste the content of post.php to post-homepage.php
* - Edit and customize the post-homepage.php file for your needs.
*
* Learn more about the get_template_part() function: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_template_part
*/
$is_post_wrap++;
if($is_post_wrap == '1') {
?><div class="post-wrap clearfix"><?php
}
get_template_part('post', 'homepage');
if($is_post_wrap == '3') {
$is_post_wrap = 0;
?></div><?php
}
endwhile;
else :
get_template_part('post', 'noresults');
endif;
thank you for sharing on your thought its a great thought. Usually you can just copy a theme's index.php or category.php to category-3.php and adjust that template for any customization you need