Category: WordPress Tricks

Zoologist  by Automattic is a simple single column theme. If you are searching for a single column layout theme with basic design then this theme can be a good choice for you. Here I am going to share you CSS tricks to modify header, footer, fonts style and more.

Live Demo of Zoologist by Automattic

If you want to install it in your self hosted wordpress site, you can download them from WordPress.com repository.

Download Zoologist Parent theme Blockbase

Download Zoologist Child theme

Also You need to Install Gutenberg Plugins by Gutenberg Team

So, Here I am sharing you the css tricks which you can use to change the style of the theme.

So I tried to test the Zoologist theme by Automattic which is using Blockbase parent theme. But while trying to install, I found the theme showing this Fatal Error

Solution

Please Install Gutenberg plugins by Gutenberg team . Click Here To Install Gutenberg Plugins and the issue will be solved

Basically this is a solution of broken link in wordpress. As broken link cause issues in SEO, so you may need to redirect a bulk amount of urls to different url. So here I am sharing you a solution which basically I found working.

Client wanted to redirect all urls ( which was showing 404 error ) containing specific slug ( like category/success-story/) to be redirected to a different URL. Here is the code i used and put it in htaccess file of wordpress root folder.

<IfModule>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)url-slug/url-childslug(.*)$ https://www.your-site-url/page/about [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

Just replace the slugs and url as per your requirement.

If you need to put a search form to show blog post based on the search term, you can use the code I shared. Generally normal search form may show you result from pages and other custom post type. But here I used the form which is used to show only blog posts.

Suppose you want your visitor not to see any specific pages and want them to redirect to login or register page, then you can do this using this following code. Here i used the body class of wordpress page. Using the Body class and using php and jquery you can redirect it .

<?php
   $classes = get_body_class();
if (in_array('my-profile',$classes)   || in_array('page-id-2324',$classes)    ) {

if( ! is_user_logged_in() ) {
     ?>
  <script>
 window.location.href = "https://yoursiteurl.com/register/";
  </script>	      
     
<?php
}} 
?>

WordPress 5.6 comes with a brand new default theme: Twenty Twenty-One. Here I am sharing you some basic css or style modifications using which you can give it a look of your own. I have added the child theme below which you can download and use without any issue.

Download Twenty Twentyone Child theme.

Sometimes you may want to show the previous and next post title from same category just below your post. Here I am sharing you the code which i got from internet and used for someone which worked great. Here I am sharing you the corresponding css and php code.

CSS Code ( This code may need to tweak based on your theme)

div#opagination a[rel="prev"] {
    float: left;
    width: 50%;
}
div#opagination span {
    margin-left: 12px;
    margin-right: 12px;
}
div#opagination center {
    display: inline;
    
}
span.nextpost.txt {
    float: right;
}
span.prevpost.txt {
    float: left;
}
div#opagination a[rel="next"] {
    float: right;
	width: 50%;
	display:block;
}
div#opagination * {
    font-size: 15px;
}

div#opagination a span:last-child,div#opagination a span:last-child * {
    /* background: red; */
    display: block;
    font-size: 23px;
    font-weight: bold;
	text-align:center;
	clear: both;
}
div#opagination a span:first-child,div#opagination a span:first-child * {
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #ab9797 !important;
}

PHP code (That will go in your single.php file)

<?php
$post_id = $post->ID; // current post ID
$cat = get_the_category(); 
$current_cat_id = $cat[0]->cat_ID; // current category ID 

$args = array( 
	'numberposts'=>-1,
    'category' => $current_cat_id,
    'orderby'  => 'post_date',
    'order'    => 'DESC'
);
$posts = get_posts( $args );
// get IDs of posts retrieved from get_posts
$ids = array();
foreach ( $posts as $thepost ) {
    $ids[] = $thepost->ID;
}
// get and echo previous and next post in the same category
$thisindex = array_search( $post_id, $ids );
//print_r($ids);
$previd    = isset( $ids[ $thisindex - 1 ] ) ? $ids[ $thisindex - 1 ] : false;
$nextid    = isset( $ids[ $thisindex + 1 ] ) ? $ids[ $thisindex + 1 ] : false;
echo  '<div id="opagination">' ;
if (false !== $previd ) {
			?><a rel="prev" href="<?php echo get_permalink($previd) ?>"><span class="prevpost txt"><< Article plus récent </span><span><?php echo get_the_title($previd); ?></span></a><?php
}
if (false !== $nextid ) {
			?><a rel="next" href="<?php echo get_permalink($nextid) ?>"><span class="nextpost txt">Article plus ancien >></span> <span><?php echo get_the_title($nextid); ?> </span> </a><?php
}
			echo '</div>';
			
			?>