Need some help with the theme customization

Hi @edhruv,

The News section needs to display a specific set of pages instead of the blog posts.

It is possible to achieve what you’re after but will require you to experiment a little with the theme’s PHP and HTML.

If you’re comfortable doing that then the first step is for you to set up a child theme.

In case you’re unsure, the following guides provide a good introduction to child themes, including steps to set one up:

• https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Child_Themes
• https://wordpress.tv/2015/05/12/kathryn-presner-getting-comfortable-with-child-themes/

After you have completed that step, copy the parent’s content-front-news.php file to your child theme’s directory and then open it in your favourite text/code editor.

Locate the following code in that file:

<?php
$sticky = get_option( 'sticky_posts' );

$args = array(
	'posts_per_page'  		=> 7,
	'ignore_sticky_posts' 	=> 1,
	'post__not_in'        	=> $sticky,
	'category_name' => 'markup',
);

$query = new WP_Query( $args );

if ( $query->have_posts() ) :

	while ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post();
		get_template_part( 'content', 'news' );
	endwhile;

endif; ?>

The above code is pulling in the list of latest posts to the latest news section of Harmonic’s home page.

You can add and edit the WP_Query parameters in order to display pages instead. The following documentation further details WP_Query and the options available to you:

https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Class_Reference/WP_Query

One other issue is the way the categories are getting displayed in the side bar. At the moment the categories are getting displayed as Step 1, Step 11 etc. Is it possible to change this to display in proper order like, Step 1, Step 2 etc..

Are you using a widget to display your categories in the sidebar? If you could possibly share a link to the site you’re customising, that will help me get a clearer idea of what you’re trying to achieve.

Thanks!

Thank you for clarifying, @edhruv!

There isn’t a way to change the default ordering of the category widget, however, as a workaround you could use the Custom Menu widget instead.

As a first step to this: Navigate to Appearance > Menus in your admin area and set up a new custom menu. Add all the links to your category pages in the order you want to your new menu.

You can then assign your new menu to the Custom Menu widget, which will display the list of categories in the order you’ve set.

Hope that’s clear! We’re right here if questions come up as you walk through the above.

How are you calling the menu in your child theme’s footer.php file? It should look similar to the following:

<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'menu-name' ) ); ?>

menu-name should be replaced with the name you’ve chosen for your separate footer menu.