#wordpress 2022-08-19

2022-08-19 UTC
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jeremycherfas !tell gwg Do you have any advice on displaying a page of all posts in a certain category with different look from the standard WP category page? I'm trying to use category to assemble a specific archive, but I don't want to affect the normal display of a category.
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Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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GWG jeremycherfas: You can have a custom template for a category in a child theme
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GWG https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/
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jeremycherfas But if I create a template for category-{id}.php in my child. won't that also be applied to that category when Someone simply clicks on the category? I want to display that category in two different ways, I guess.
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GWG Well, how would they get to the alternative presentation?
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GWG You'd need a query variable and possibly a rewrite
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jeremycherfas A link in the menu to the page. Can I assign ANY template to a page?
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GWG jeremycherfas: A page template yes
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GWG https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/page-template-files/
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GWG Custom page template then
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jeremycherfas Then that will indeed do it. Thanks. Now to figure out paginate_links() in CP
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GWG It should be the same
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jeremycherfas Yup. Or might be the_posts_pagination() is easier.
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jeremycherfas Got the page looking more or less as I want, but cannot for the life of me work out pagination.
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jeremycherfas Tomorrow is another day.
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GWG jeremycherfas: You may have to customize that
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RasAlGhoul Any advice on how to edit the rewrite rules/tags so that wp creates a random base32 post-id upon publishing a custom post type, such that the url is 'example.com/customcategory/ajd2'
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RasAlGhoul managed to get wp to create a base62 url but going to it results in 404
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