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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 […]

code snippets php Front page Post lists pre_get_posts add_action() is_home() is_main_query()

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 […]

code snippets php Attachements init pre_get_posts add_action() register_post_type() remove_filter() tc_include_attachments_in_search

Exclude images (attachments) from search results

So you’ve set up a really neat search on your Customizr website with the this snippet. It works fine. But when you look at the search results on your site, all you see is screens and screens of images where you were hoping to see your pages and posts. Here […]