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Three techniques to alter the query in WordPress

Howdy WP developer! In this snippet, I will describe three different techniques to alter the WordPress default query with an example showing how to add a secondary page to the front page in the Customizr theme Those are quite advanced WordPress programming techniques, so before diving into it make sure you […]

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Show random posts on front page

By default, the latest posts list on the front page gets displayed in reverse chronological order and that is what latest posts is. Can you customize it further? Can you display random posts on the front page? Add this small bit of code to your child theme’s functions.php and you […]