Richard Lyon

Ok, thanks.
Looks like I’ll have to resort to using the wordpress uploader.

It just seems silly that the featured images have to be uploaded using the wordpress uploader.

When using the more tag are you using <?php the_content('More...'); ?>
As I don’t think it works with the_excerpt();

Besides that I am not sure what the problem could be.

The Add New link only gives the option of uploading files.

I want to add already uploaded files to the media library.
Can this even be done?

No problem.

Glad it’s working now.

Yeah setting a word limit isn’t really ideal.

If you don’t want to define a manual excerpt or have a fixed length excerpt the only solution I know of is the more tag:
see https://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

Basically wherever you put the more tag in each post is where the post will be displayed up until.

To make it skip a post I think you just call the_post(); before entering your while loop. Each time you call the_post(); it gets the information of the next post.

Have you defined a manual excerpt or placed the more tag in your posts?

Could you not just do:

<?php
if(have_posts())
{
     the_post();
     while(have_posts())
     {
          the_post();
          //Do whatever you need to here.
     }
}
?>

Does it display any php warnings/errors?
Do you have them turned on in your php ini file?

That looks to me like your <?=$website_url?> is outputting nothing, this could be because the variable is empty. Or because you have output errors turned off in your php ini file and also have short tags turned off.

Also it is breaking here <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?> have you enabled post thumbnails?

If not you need add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' ); in your functions.php file.

Shameless bump.

The php code looks fine to me.

When you view the page source code from the browser does each opening tag have a closing tag and vice versa?

Also you might want to put the post thumbnail inside a check to see if one exists like this:

<?php if(has_post_thumbnail()) : ?>
<a href="<?php echo your_link_goes_here; ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?></a>
<?php endif; ?>

Unless you know for sure that all your posts will have thumbnails.

If this is on a live site a link to see the actual HTML output would be helpful.

Also in your portfolio.php you have <a>"><?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?> </a>
I’m not sure what that might do to the resulting HTML output but it is definitely wrong.
You want something like :
<a href="<?php echo your_link_goes_here; ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?></a>

If you have misordered HTML tags and extra ‘<‘ or ‘>’ it can cause the rest of the HTML to not display or display incorrectly.

Hope this helps.

Okay I’ve been looking into this and have come up with :

<?php
	$category = $_GET['c'];
	$tag = $_GET['t'];
	query_posts('cat='.get_cat_id($category).'&tag='.$tag);
?>

Where the url is https://www.example.com/category-tag/?c=projects&t=cpp
What I want to use for the url is :
https://www.example.com/category-tag/projects/cpp

The code I would use for this is :

<?php
	$path = $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];
	list($url, $cattag, $category, $tag) = explode('/', $path);
	query_posts('cat='.get_cat_id($category).'&tag='.$tag);
?>

Which in theory would work but when using ‘/’ slashes after the page ‘category-tag’ word press directs to a search page saying not found and the ‘category-tag’ page template is not executed.

Am I missing something that would allow me to do this?
Or will I have to use the search string after the page?
Or am I going about this all wrong?

Thanks!

Thanks for the reply.
But I am looking for the method to extract the values from the url.

I know I could extract the information manually but am wondering if there is a wordpress way of extracting that information.

Like what you put but instead of 'category=projects&meta_value=cpp'
have 'category='.url_segment(2).'&meta_value='.url_segment(3)
This way I wouldn’t have to add an extra page and template for each search.

Thanks.