[Support request] Show posts on static frontpage + use static pages as Category Archives

[David]

Not sure – i have asked Tom to take a look at the issue.

[Patryk]

That’s good because i think that there will be more people interested in.

[Tom]

Strange, haven’t seen people have this issue with the code before. There’s likely something up with your rewrite rules.

You might be able to prevent it with this:

add_filter('request', function( array $query_vars ) {
    if ( is_admin() ) {
        return $query_vars;
    }

    if ( isset( $query_vars['category_name'] ) && is_archive() ) {
        $pagename = $query_vars['category_name'];

        $query_vars = array( 'pagename' => "$pagename" );
    }

    return $query_vars;
} );

[Patryk]

It works! Thank you so much.

[Patryk]

Oh no. Just realize that im wrong. Now it use the categorie archives instead of static pages…

Any other idea?

[Tom]

Must be something weird going on with your setup. What do you have set for permalinks in “Settings > Permalinks”?

[Patryk]

Hi,

my permalink setup:
/%category%/%postname%/

And my menu setup:
individual link as main menu item and category as sub menu item.

Thanks.

[Tom]

What if you just use the standard %postname% permalinks? Any difference?

[Patryk]

Hi Tom, that‘s it!
Any ideas to get it with the other permalink structure? Thanks again.

[Tom]

Hmm, we could try debugging in the code.

For example:

add_filter('request', function( array $query_vars ) {
    if ( is_admin() ) {
        return $query_vars;
    }

    var_dump($query_vars['category_name']);

    return $query_vars;
} );

What does that output above the header when viewing category pages?

[Patryk]

Hi Tom,

i switch permalinks to /%category%/%postname%/

The output for the category page is the same as in the post:
– string(6) “rezept“ in the category Rezept
– string(8) “hausarzt“ in the category Hausarzt

[Tom]

Can we try this now?:

add_filter('request', function( array $query_vars ) {
    if ( is_admin() ) {
        return $query_vars;
    }

    if ( isset( $query_vars['category_name'] ) && is_archive() ) {
        $pagename = $query_vars['category_name'];

        var_dump($pagename);

        //$query_vars = array( 'pagename' => "$pagename" );
    }

    return $query_vars;
} );

Does it output anything?

[Patryk]

Hi Tom,

no nothing.

[Tom]

I’m assuming the action runs too early for is_archive() to work, that’s a shame.

I’m not really sure what to do here, unfortunately.

My last guess would be to do this, but it’s just a guess:

add_filter('request', function( array $query_vars ) {
    if ( is_admin() ) {
        return $query_vars;
    }

    if ( isset( $query_vars['category_name'] ) && ! isset( $query_vars['p'] ) ) {
        $pagename = $query_vars['category_name'];

        $query_vars = array( 'pagename' => "$pagename" );
    }

    return $query_vars;
} );

category_name should only be set when viewing a category, but I guess having it in your permalinks makes it so it’s always true.

[Patryk]

Ok it does not work. But no problem. I switch back to the other permalink and than its fine for me. But thank you very much for your assistance.

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