mattlitzinger

Hi @janmoes

I would use the $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] variable as the form action attribute, so the form posts to itself. This is described in greater detail in this tutorial. This would allow you to test the input values after the form is submitted and render any error messages or a success state.

<form 
    method="post" 
    action="<?php echo $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];?>"
>
    ...
</form>

Hope that helps.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by mattlitzinger.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by mattlitzinger.

Hi @jhamilt2

If you’re running 5.8, you should be able to disable the duotone settings completely using the new theme.json configuration. Assuming you don’t already have settings defined in theme.json, the file would look something like this:

{
  "version": 1,
  "settings": {
    "color": {
      "duotone": [],
      "customDuotone": false
    }
  }
}

More details on theme.json usage can be found here.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by mattlitzinger.

You will need to either print your HTML code using PHP echo or close your PHP tags before starting to write HTML. For example:

if ( $first_post ) { ?>
    <div class="post featured-post">First Post</div>
<?php } else { ?>
    <div class="post">Post</div>
<?php }

That can be easily overlooked and would lead to the issue you’re describing.

Sorry to hear that. Is the code you posted above the most up-to-date version you’re working with? I’m not seeing anything wrong there. If the template already includes the default while(have_posts()) that’s fine to use instead of creating a custom WP_Query. If you can post the latest code you’re working with I could take a look.

This is template code, so it would be placed in your index.php or archive.php template file depending on your needs. If you wanted a functions.php solution, you could use something like the following which would just add a .first class name to the first item in the loop. You could then use that class to apply CSS to only that element.

<?php
   add_filter( 'post_class', 'wps_first_post_class' );
   function wps_first_post_class( $classes ) {
      global $wp_query;
      if( 0 == $wp_query->current_post )
      $classes[] = 'first';
      return $classes;
   }
?>

Source: https://wpdynamic.com/wordpress-developer/wordpress-code-snippets/how-to-add-a-class-to-the-first-post-in-the-wordpress-loop/

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by mattlitzinger.

Yes, this is possible. You’ll need to create a variable before looping through the posts: $first_post = true;. The conditional within the loop checks if it’s the first post and displays different HTML markup if that’s the case. Then after looping through for the first time, set the $first_post variable to false.

If this is for your main blog page, these changes would be made to the index.php template file within your theme.

$query_args = array( 
  'post_type' => 'post' 
);

$posts_query = new WP_Query( $query_args );

if ( $posts_query->have_posts() ) { 

  $first_post = true;
  while ( $posts_query->have_posts() ) { 
    $posts_query->the_post();
    
    if ( $first_post ) {
      // Put your HTML markup for the first post here
    } else {
      // Put the HTML markup for all other posts here
    }

    $first_post = false;
  } 

}

wp_reset_postdata();

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Here is the code I used to acheive this. Just add the following inside each sidebar where you want to add default content.

<?php
    if ( ! dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-5' ) ) {
        the_widget( 'WP_Widget_Calendar' );
    }
?>

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10203413/how-to-add-default-widgets-to-a-custom-dynamic-sidebar

Cascus,
Thanks for your reply, but this is something I would like to happen from a clean install.

Thanks, I am calling the widgets from a file called footer-sidebar.php. The widgets load fine, but the all load in the first column. I would like them to be spread out over three columns on install.