July 2016 - WINZYWEB

Sometimes you might want specific pages to be displayed on your site. If you want to display specific posts you can place them into the same category and loop though them by cat. However, you can’t do that with pages. In order to solve that, this is what you have to do if you want to loop through specific pages:

  $args = array(
	'post_type' => 'page',
	'post__in' => array(34,56,7,22)
   );
	
   $my_specific_pages = new WP_Query( $args );
	
   while ($my_tile_pages -> have_posts()) : $my_tile_pages -> the_post();

         the_content(); // ADD YOUR OWN CONTENT

   endwhile;
   wp_reset_postdata();

$args = array(

'post_type' => 'page',

'post__in' => array(34,56,7,22)

);

$my_specific_pages = new WP_Query( $args );

while ($my_tile_pages -> have_posts()) : $my_tile_pages -> the_post();

the_content(); // ADD YOUR OWN CONTENT

endwhile;

wp_reset_postdata();

Copy this code where you would like to use it and in the assignment of variable $args modify the array with the IDs of the pages you want to use. In case you don’t know how to find your page ID, simply open up the editor for the Page you want. In the URL area you will see the page number mentioned in the http string. It will look something like this: ‘post=74’. That is your page ID number. Check out this guide for a visual on how to do this.

Next, add your own content inside the loop. Don’t forget to close out your php tags if your content will include html. For example:

while ($my_tile_pages -> have_posts()) : $my_tile_pages -> the_post(); ?>
   <div class="main-content">
       <?php the_content(); ?> // ADD YOUR OWN CONTENT

<?php   endwhile; wp_reset_postdata();

while ($my_tile_pages -> have_posts()) : $my_tile_pages -> the_post(); ?>

<?php the_content(); ?> // ADD YOUR OWN CONTENT

<?php endwhile; wp_reset_postdata();

That’s it really. Here is an example of the code of a loop through specific pages that i created to make a mosaic of images that link to specific pages.

<?php
	$args = array(
	'post_type' => 'page',
	'post__in' => array(67,59,69,65,61,63,57,54)
	);
	
	$my_tile_pages = new WP_Query( $args );
	while ($my_tile_pages -> have_posts()) : $my_tile_pages -> the_post(); ?>
		<div class="box vertical-esp">
			<div class="innerBox" 
				style="background: url(<?php echo wp_get_attachment_url( get_post_thumbnail_id() ); ?>) 
					no-repeat; background-position: 50%; background-size: cover;">
				<div class="titleBox">
					<article id="post-96; ?>">
						<a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark"><h3><?php echo get_the_title(); ?></h3></a>
					</article><!-- #post-## -->
				</div>
			</div><!-- .innerBox -->
		</div>
<?php endwhile; wp_reset_postdata();

<?php

$args = array(

'post_type' => 'page',

'post__in' => array(67,59,69,65,61,63,57,54)

);

$my_tile_pages = new WP_Query( $args );

while ($my_tile_pages -> have_posts()) : $my_tile_pages -> the_post(); ?>

<div class="innerBox"

style="background: url(<?php echo wp_get_attachment_url( get_post_thumbnail_id() ); ?>)

no-repeat; background-position: 50%; background-size: cover;">

<a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark"><h3><?php echo get_the_title(); ?></h3></a>

</article>

</div>

</div>

</div>

<?php endwhile; wp_reset_postdata();

Enjoy, and if you have any questions, leave them in the comments below.

So, someone has agreed to write an article for your WordPress blog and you want their name to appear next to the article. There are two ways to add a guest author’s name. First, you could always create an account for them and they can post their own articles. This works well, especially if they plan to write again in the future. The second way does not involve the author at all. You simply add some code to your functions.php file and add a custom field at the bottom of your post. This method is ideal when you don’t want to bother the author with dealing with passwords, when they will only write one article, when they have simply sent you the text of an article and will not be going into the WP editor to create the post and for keeping your dashboard clutter free. On to it then.

Add a guest author’s name to your post

1. FTP to your site and open the functions.php file in an editor and paste in this code snippet. If you need a general purpose editor, I recommend Notepad++ it is lightweight, simple to use and free. Download it here.


// Add a guest author's name to a post
add_filter( 'the_author', 'winzytheme_guest_author_name' );
add_filter( 'get_the_author_display_name', 'winzytheme_guest_author_name' );

function winzytheme_guest_author_name( $guest_name ) {
global $post;

$author = get_post_meta( $post-&gt;ID, 'guest-author', true );

if ( $author )
$guest_name = $author;

return $guest_name;
}

// Add a guest author's name to a post

add_filter( 'the_author', 'winzytheme_guest_author_name' );

add_filter( 'get_the_author_display_name', 'winzytheme_guest_author_name' );

function winzytheme_guest_author_name( $guest_name ) {

global $post;

$author = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'guest-author', true );

if ( $author )

$guest_name = $author;

return $guest_name;

}

2. Now that you have entered the code, go to your post editor, go to “Screen Options” and make sure that “Custom Fields” are selected.

add a guest author's name — add a guest author’s name

3. Scroll past your post and in the section “Custom Fields” click on “Enter New”

4. After that type “guest-author” exactly as I have written it in the “Name” field and type in the name of the author in the “Value” field

5. Enter the content of the post and publish. The guest name will appear.

For any other WordPress questions you might have or just to discuss things WordPress, drop me a line.

Month: July 2016

Loop through specific pages in WordPress

How to add a guest author’s name to your post

Add a guest author’s name to your post

Month: July 2016

Add a guest author’s name to your post

Are you ready for a new website?