I'm having a bit of trouble with Wordpress, I want my blog posts to show on the news page, so I selected that page in the settings tab.
The blog posts show but I want to change the page template, I created a new template which works on all other pages but when I select it from the page template list within the 'news' page it doesn't change but instead just stays the same.
There is no blog.php file, I've even tried changing the standard page.php expecting it to be falling back onto that but it is not! I've tried changing the archives page too but nothing seems to change it!
Any ideas?
It won't be page.php which shows a single page view and you're right, there is no blog.php. Wordpress uses a template hierarchy for displaying lists of blog posts.
As you can see from this diagram - Wordpress template hierarchy
For archives like your News blog page you are looking at category.php, archive.php and then index.php (depending on your theme and which template files you've got).
Rather handily your problem is exactly the same as the working example used as a demonstration in the Codex link I've given above, so this should help explain things more.
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I have a WordPress template displaying the latest posts on the home page (www.mydomain.bla) as it is the default setting in WordPress:
Now, I want to add a link referring to my home page in my navigation (with Appearance -> Menus). The only way I found to do this is by adding a custom link referring to my domain.
Here's my problem:
Even though the link itself does the job, one thing is not working. When navigating to a single post (like www.mydomain.bla/a-single-post) the needed classes indicating the parent link (current-post-ancestor current-menu-parent current-post-parent) do not appear to a custom link like they would to if I had a "Post page" which is not the Homepage.
Is there a way to add a link referring to my posts-showing homepage properly?
Thanks a lot for your help!
Create a new template named "Our blog" and paste the code for posts in this template. Now add a new page named "HOME", select OUR BLOG template and publish the page. Now go to the reading section under the setting tab and change the setting from your latest posts to a single page and select your HOME page.
Now you can add page rather than adding a custom link in the menu.
I have just encountered a small but weird problem in WordPress. I have made page called 'nyheter' (translates to news in Norwegian), where I have made a custom page having a 'page-nyheter.php' in my template folder where I want to display all the posts on the website.
Please keep in mind that I don't want to display any posts on my front page.
I do also have a custom static front page that is just 'front-page.php' which works fine navigating to. However, choosing my front page as the homepage, and the 'nyheter' page as the posts page in the settings, ends up showing the homepage on the 'nyheter' page as well. All of the other pages works fine, and if I just remove the 'nyheter' page from the custom posts page, it works fine again.
What exactly am I doing wrong here? Could someone please help me?
The Posts page will use index.php for it's template, and the Static Front Page will use front-page.php
Is the Nyheter page powered by posts? Why not use index.php since is most suitable for posts than a page template.
https://wphierarchy.com/
If you are a developer please enable wp_debug to true. Then check your errors.
As the title says, I'm currently working on a theme and i've found a bit of a problem.
Let's say I make a page called test and give it the custom page template of test-page-template
so far that works fine if I go view the page but the problem comes when I set the homepage to use my page as the static homepage; what happens is instead of using the test-page-template it uses front-page.php.
The obvious work around would be to edit front-page.php to be the same as test-page-template but that's a bad solution if a client wanted to select a different page as the static front page. Any ideas?
This is happening because of the WordPress template hierarchy. Front-page.php takes priority as compared to page template, when it comes to the front page of the blog. Here is the heirarchy graph:-
I'm not sure of the complete requirements, but I would suggest you to use index.php and page templates in that scenario.
I have created a wordpress.org blog on my website but I do not use the actual blog page to display the blog posts. Initially I tried to style the wordpress blog to match my site, but since wordpress' theme is too constricted I decided to use "the loop" to gather the_author_posts_link, the_title, the_content, etc and display them on my main page. (reference: http://www.corvidworks.com/articles/wordpress-content-on-other-pages). The problem I am running into is the comment section. No matter what, I cannot seem to find a way to add comments to my front page using php. I know I can get my post content to display by calling the_content(), but I cannot seem to find a similar function for comments. I'm open to any solution that will allow my pseudo-blog to display comments under each post.
Thank you!
Should be <?php comments_template(); ?>. Look in your theme files for that template tag. But it working depends on if you've correctly included the blog header on your non-WP pages.
I am trying to achieve a custom URL structure with Wordpress. Basically, my site functions as my blog and my portfolio. I want to have an "Articles" section and a "Portfolio" section. I want the articles to display on the Articles page, and the portfolio on the Portfolio page. Should be easy, except on top of that I want custom URLs...
I want the URLs setup like this:
Articles page:
http://mydomain.com/discusses
Specific article:
http://mydomain.com/discussed/%postname%
Portfolio page:
http://mydomain.com/does
Specific design:
http://mydomain.com/designed/%postname%
I can figure out how to do only one rewrite of this type, but WP doesn't have built in functionality to do both. I'm just wondering where I should start or what I should do...
The problem also becomes, I want to retain category functionality in both areas, so maybe it needs to be achieved with Custom Fields? and add a new rewrite rule based on the custom field of a post? I have idea where to start...
Thanks for any help you can give.
This actually isn't that hard to do. I'll go down, page by page, what you would need to do to achieve this.
Articles Page
Create a new template in your theme folder (/wp-content/themes/your-theme/) called discusses.php and just add the following content:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Discusses Template
*/
?>
You don't need any more content. Go into the Pages section of WordPress Admin and create a new page called Articles page and set the URL to be /discusses/. Set the template of this page to be Discusses Template. Now, go into the Settings → Reading section in Admin and set the Posts page to Articles page. Now all your blog posts will appear under the URL /discusses/
Specific Article
The easiest way to have all your articles appearing as /discussed/title is to rename the default category (in Posts → Categories) to discussed. Then set your permalinks to be:
/%category%/%postname%/
This will render the links you need for each post.
Portfolio Page & Specific Design Page
Assuming this will be some kind of custom design, the easiest thing to do would be to create a custom template and Page in the pages section, as you did for the articles page, and throw your custom HTML and CSS into that. I would then set each specific design page to be a child page of that in the pages section. You can use the WPdb classs to make custom queries to populate the Portfolio page.