Today I Learned

To change the slug for a post type in WordPress, you can use the register_post_type() function. Within the arguments array for the function, you can set the rewrite parameter to an array with the new slug you want to use.

Here's an example code snippet:

function change_post_type_slug() {
    $args = array(
        'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'new-slug' ),
        // other post type arguments
    );
    register_post_type( 'your_post_type', $args );
}
add_action( 'init', 'change_post_type_slug' );

In this example, replace your_post_type with the name of the post type you want to change, and replace new-slug with the new slug you want to use.

Once you've added this code to your functions.php file, you'll need to go to Settings > Permalinks in the WordPress admin dashboard and click the "Save Changes" button to update your permalinks. This will ensure that your new slug is properly applied.

Working with WordPress menus, I wanted a top-level navigation element to act as a trigger for a drop-down menu.

It took me some time to figure out how to make this navigation element not redirect anywhere, but it was so easy.

You need to take the following steps:

1. Insert a custom link with any link address and label that you want.

2. Click on the 'Edit Menu Item' and delete the link that you insert previously.

3. Create the sub-menu with the wanted links.

4. Save.

That's all, nothing more, nothing less.

To create a pagination for the custom taxonomy archive, you must enter the following snippet in the code:

function custom_tax_query_change( $query ) {
     if ( ! is_admin() && $query->is_tax( 'example_taxonomy_name' ) ) {
          $query->set( 'posts_per_page', 10 );
     }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'custom_tax_query_change' );

The 'post_per_page' tell us how many posts we want to display per page. If you want more or less, you can change the value as you need.

To display all the categories of posts in WordPress and the active category, you need to go through the following steps:

1. Get the current category:

<?php $current_category = get_queried_object(); ?>

2. Get all the categories:

<?php $categories = get_categories(); ?>

3. Use a loop to iterate all the categories:

<?php foreach ($categories as $category):
    $category_link = get_category_link($category); ?>
 <a class="blog__category <?php echo $current_category->cat_name ===
 $category->cat_name
     ? "is-active"
     : ""; ?>" 
  href="<?php echo $category_link; ?>">
  <?php echo $category->name; ?>
  </a>
<?php endforeach; ?>

Now you can see all the categories that are used on your blog posts and the current selected category.

The problem:

<?php if ( have_rows( 'repeater_field' ) ) while ( have_rows( 'repeater_field' ) ) : the_row(); ?>
    <?php
        $name = get_sub_field( 'name' );
        $age = get_sub_field( 'age' );
    ?>
	
    <p><?php echo $name; ?></p>
    <p><?php echo $age; ?></p>
<?php endwhile; ?>

This only gets you the normal, ascending order for those repeater rows. But what if you need to reverse the order of those rows, making first the last and vice-versa?

The Advanced Custom Fields documentation gives an example, but that didn't work at the time of this writing. They instruct you to use the get_field() function for the main repeater field, but for some reason that returns null on a repeater field.

What I've found to work was to use the get_sub_field() to get the field and the krsort() php method which sorts an array by key in descending order.

<?php
    $repeater = get_sub_field('repeater_field');
    krsort($repeater);
?>
<?php foreach ($repeater as $row): ?>
    <p><?php echo $row['name']; ?></p>
    <p><?php echo $row['age']; ?></p>
<?php endforeach; ?>

One thing to note is that with this method you need to change the way you access those variables.