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How To Allow/Disallow Comments By Default For Specific Post Types

Posted November 16th, 2012 in Wordpress How-To

While working on a project recently I found that I wasn’t able to control whether comments were allowed or not for specific post types. The client asked us to disable comments by default for pages and a custom post type, but to enable comments by default for her blog posts.…

How to query a particular page or post in WordPress

Posted June 18th, 2012 in Wordpress How-To

Querying a particular page or post and pulling back some of the content. $id = 19; $pg = get_post($id); $excerpt = $pg->post_excerpt; ?> <h2><a href=”<?php echo get_permalink($id); ?>”><?php echo get_the_title($id); ?></a></h2> <?php echo ‘<a href=”‘.get_permalink($id).'”>’.get_the_post_thumbnail($id, ‘homethumb’).”</a>”; echo “<p>” .$excerpt. “</p>”; echo ‘<a href=”‘.get_permalink($id).'” class=”btn”>Read More »</a>’;

How to Set a Custom Taxonomy Page’s sort order

Posted June 18th, 2012 in Webmaster Journal, Wordpress How-To

After about 10 searches I was just about to give up, it seemed that my custom category on my custom post type was going to be stuck in descending order sorted by date, but then – revelation. It seems the solution was fairly simple after all so here is…