duncmorley

I want my client to have as much control over the look and content of the posts homepage as possible.

For example, changing the title of the page, intro paragraph, feature image etc. This would need to be populated on the blog page. I’m finding it hard to find a solution of of pulling this information through onto the home.php or index.php page. Do you have any ideas or suggestions?

Having spent quite a bit of time today searching the web I’ve come to the conclusion that quite a few people use a page template for the static post homepage instead of using the settings > reading method.

I think a root page option for posts would be extremely beneficial to the people who go down this route. I would be interested to know what you think regarding this and if you think it would be a good addition for a future release.

I know it is easy to show 5 posts using the settings method. I am using the Advanced Custom Fields plugin where I have options to change the layout of the page, hide/show areas, display related pages (that are custom picked per page), customise widget areas. All these options are available on every page and using the settings > reading method does not allow these options to work.

I am having a look at using your method now and have now created a home.php to display my posts. How can I display the custom field data I have put in on my blog page as well as my posts that are with the loop?

As per my original question it is not possible for me to use this method. I have custom fields that need populating on a page template for the blog homepage as well as showing the 5 latest blog posts. Using the index.php file is not enough for me in this instance. Therefore it would be good to have the same functionality as a CPT for breadcrumbs to pick the root page. Although doing it the way you have said is the normal way of doing it it is not the only way. I hope you can understand why it would be good to have this functionality.

Regards

Duncan

Agreed. Hopefully an update will be pushed soon enough as I use this loads.

Thanks. My issue is that I have 3 instances of the same widget on each page (in the footer). Each widget is showing all the posts for a different term. I just wanted to link the title to the term page so can’t hard code in 1 link.

tribalNerb, you’re a ledge! Thanks for the info.

pc-robotstxt does also not work. Both the mapped domain and unmapped give me 404 error!

In fact i did have one domain that wasn’t mapped yet. mainsite.com/networksite/robots.txt still 404’s.

I am using Multisite Robots.txt Manager. Please see link below:

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/multisite-robotstxt-manager/

I don’t have a non mapped site to check unfortunately.

It is yes. The network sites are installed in sub directories.

The mainsite.com/networksite automatically redirects to networksite.com.

So mainsite.com/networksite/robots.txt redirects to networksite.com/robots.txt which goes to a 404 error page.

I have a multisite setup. I am using a parent theme for all the sites with my set up. I have set up a ‘product selector’ widget within my parent theme that retrieves parent and child pages using AJAX.

The first drop down within my product selector gets the parent pages, then retrieves the child pages based on the ID of the parent page. The function within my functions.php (in the parent theme) file is used to retrieve the child pages but because the blog_id always returns 1 it is never finding the correct child pages for the correct website/blog.

Because it always returns 1. When I hard code the switch to an ID of 2 it displays the correct content, which is why I was looking for a way for the function to pick up the blog ID I am viewing.

Yeah, that works for me too, but the function I am using is within the functions.php file in a parent theme. See code below:

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Yes I have. Still can’t figure this out.