Display Custom Post Type Page as Static Front Page WordPress

Armand Morin comments:

I don't want ALL the post type pages displayed. I want a SINGLE POST TYPE PAGE. That's why I added the custom post type pages to the Reading setting dropdown, in order to select a single post type page to be displayed as the Front page.

I don't want a list of all the Customer Post Type Posts made.

I just want a single post type page I select.

Julian Lannigan comments:

I see, try this:

add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_get_posts' );

function my_get_posts( $query ) {

if ( is_home() && false == $query->query_vars['suppress_filters'] )
$query->set( 'p' => get_option("page_on_front") );

return $query;
}

Armand Morin comments:

Got this when I ran it...

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_DOUBLE_ARROW

Julian Lannigan comments:

add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_get_posts' );

function my_get_posts( $query ) {

if ( is_home() && false == $query->query_vars['suppress_filters'] )
$query->set( 'p' => intval(get_option("page_on_front")) );

return $query;
}

Julian Lannigan comments:

Sorry bad formatting on the last one.

Try this:

add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_get_posts' );

function my_get_posts( $query ) {

if ( is_home() && false == $query->query_vars['suppress_filters'] )
$query->set( 'p' => intval(get_option("page_on_front")) );

return $query;
}

It basically just forces the value in the "page_on_front" option to be a integer.

Armand Morin comments:

Julienne,

Sorry, I'm getting the same error message.

It's this line which is causing it... I can't figure it out...

$query->set( 'p' => intval(get_option("page_on_front")) );

Julian Lannigan comments:

What is the output of the get_option?

Insert this into your functions.php and tell me what the result is:

var_dump(get_option("page_on_front")); die;

Armand Morin comments:

The result is 1483 which is the ID of the post I want to use.

Julian Lannigan comments:

I am sooo sorry, didn't even see this. The arguments must be encapsulated in an array, my bad.

add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_get_posts' );

function my_get_posts( $query ) {

if ( is_home() && false == $query->query_vars['suppress_filters'] )
$query->set( array('p' => get_option("page_on_front")) );

return $query;
}

Julian Lannigan comments:

Im sorry, I'm all over the place, try this if the above doesn't work:

add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_get_posts' );

function my_get_posts( $query ) {

if ( is_home() && false == $query->query_vars['suppress_filters'] )
$query->set( 'p', get_option("page_on_front") );

return $query;
}

Armand Morin comments:

I tried both and I still get the redirect the the post URL. Damn, I really hoped it would work.

Armand Morin comments:

I am wondering if it's some setting on the custom post type, that I did not correctly include or setup.

Armand Morin comments:

Upon looking at this closely, I think it's a rewrite rule that needs to be added.

I tried an alternative...

function enable_front_page_stacks( $query ){
if('' == $query->query_vars['post_type'] && 0 != $query->query_vars['page_id'])
$query->query_vars['post_type'] = array( 'page', 'salesletters' );
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'enable_front_page_stacks' );

It stops the redirect, but now the page is stripped of the Custom Post Template so no content is shown.

Julian Lannigan comments:

Does this redirect you?

add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'enable_front_page_stacks' );

function enable_front_page_stacks( $query ) {

if ( $query->is_home && false == $query->query_vars['suppress_filters'] )
$query->set( array('p' => get_option("page_on_front")) );

return $query;
}

Armand Morin comments:

I tried and 1.) yes, it still redirects... 2.) I get this error message...

Warning: Missing argument 2 for WP_Query::set(), on my Custom Post Type Page

Julian Lannigan comments:

I don't know what I keep thinking...I have to pass it as 2 arguments and not an array. Please try this.

add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'enable_front_page_stacks' );

function enable_front_page_stacks( $query ) {

if ( $query->is_home && false == $query->query_vars['suppress_filters'] )
$query->set( 'p', get_option("page_on_front") );

return $query;
}

If that doesn't work could you run the following so that I can see the query we are initially working with.

add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'enable_front_page_stacks' );

function enable_front_page_stacks( $query ) {

if ( $query->is_home && false == $query->query_vars['suppress_filters'] ) {
echo "<pre>".print_r($query,1)."</pre>";die;
}

return $query;
}

Please paste in the results of the above code if the first block does no changes. (please paste it into a code block so it preserves the indentation)

Armand Morin comments:

Ok the first code didn't work and STILL redirected...

Here's the code produced by the second code...

WP_Query Object
(
[query_vars] => Array
(
[post_type] => salesletters
[error] =>
[m] => 0
[p] => 0
[post_parent] =>
[subpost] =>
[subpost_id] =>
[attachment] =>
[attachment_id] => 0
[name] =>
[static] =>
[pagename] =>
[page_id] => 0
[second] =>
[minute] =>
[hour] =>
[day] => 0
[monthnum] => 0
[year] => 0
[w] => 0
[category_name] =>
[tag] =>
[cat] =>
[tag_id] =>
[author_name] =>
[feed] =>
[tb] =>
[paged] => 0
[comments_popup] =>
[meta_key] =>
[meta_value] =>
[preview] =>
[s] =>
[sentence] =>
[fields] =>
[category__in] => Array
(
)

[category__not_in] => Array
(
)

[category__and] => Array
(
)

[post__in] => Array
(
)

[post__not_in] => Array
(
)

[tag__in] => Array
(
)

[tag__not_in] => Array
(
)

[tag__and] => Array
(
)

[tag_slug__in] => Array
(
)

[tag_slug__and] => Array
(
)

)

[tax_query] => WP_Tax_Query Object
(
[queries] => Array
(
)

[relation] => AND
)

[meta_query] =>
[post_count] => 0
[current_post] => -1
[in_the_loop] =>
[comment_count] => 0
[current_comment] => -1
[found_posts] => 0
[max_num_pages] => 0
[max_num_comment_pages] => 0
[is_single] =>
[is_preview] =>
[is_page] =>
[is_archive] =>
[is_date] =>
[is_year] =>
[is_month] =>
[is_day] =>
[is_time] =>
[is_author] =>
[is_category] =>
[is_tag] =>
[is_tax] =>
[is_search] =>
[is_feed] =>
[is_comment_feed] =>
[is_trackback] =>
[is_home] => 1
[is_404] =>
[is_comments_popup] =>
[is_paged] =>
[is_admin] =>
[is_attachment] =>
[is_singular] =>
[is_robots] =>
[is_posts_page] =>
[is_post_type_archive] =>
[query_vars_hash] => f34f628bb13defc6470b8d5e629a3d1f
[query_vars_changed] =>
[thumbnails_cached] =>
[query] => Array
(
[post_type] => salesletters
)

)

Julian Lannigan comments:

Try this out, I'm trying a different action.

add_filter( 'parse_query', 'enable_front_page_stacks' );

function enable_front_page_stacks( $query ) {

if ( $query->is_home && false == $query->query_vars['suppress_filters'] ) {
$query->query_vars['p'] = get_option("page_on_front");
}

return $query;
}

Armand Morin comments:

I'm sad say... no it still redirected.

Is there anything I can do to help you on this?

Julian Lannigan comments:

I don't necessarily like the way I did this, but it works.

I made the changes in your CORE.php but here is the code that I changed:

add_filter( 'template_redirect', 'enable_front_page_stacks', 1);
function enable_front_page_stacks($template) {
if ( $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] == "/" ) {
query_posts("p=".get_option("page_on_front")."&post_type=salesletters");
the_post();
include(plugin_dir_path(__FILE__) . "/single-salesletter.php");
die;
}
return $template;
}

Armand Morin comments:

Awesome... i know what you mean. But it works. I think at this time, that's the only way it will work. Thank you... you no doubtedly won this.