Problem: I am using the Toolset Starter theme and I would like to customize the menus to look like an existing site.
Solution: If you have a specific design in mind, or a theme you want to emulate, I would not use Toolset Starter theme. Its markup, stylesheets and features may actually cause more problems than it solves.
Problem: I have a View that shows posts and custom field values from those posts. The View is sorted by the custom field. If one of the results in the View does not contain a value for that custom field, it is not included in the search results.
Solution: This is the result of a quirk in WordPress queries. When sorting by a custom field, posts that do not contain a value for that custom field are not included in the search results. There are two workarounds:
1. Give every post a death date value. Choose the same date like January 1, 1700, for each post that does not have a death date. Use conditional HTML to hide January 1, 1700 on the front-end of the site and display something different like "Unknown". You can accomplish this with no extra custom code.
2. Or, create another custom field that holds a number. Copy the timestamp from the death date custom field into the number field when a post is saved or edited. You need custom code for this. Use the save_post hook, or cred_save_data if these posts are only added and edited by CRED. If no value is provided for the death date in a post, store a "1" in the new custom field. Sort by this number custom field, but display the death date field.
Problem:
They have no archives on the entire site, so I am wondering if I can use layouts (not using on the site yet), or if I just have to suck it up and write a archive-post-type.php file?
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