Wordpress public pages incompatibility

The WordPress integration uses the filter 'the_content' to display public CiviCRM pages in WordPress. This filter is only called when a post is displayed. So when the homepage for a website does not include any posts, going to a CiviCRM event information page or any other public page will display the website's homepage rather than the CiviCRM content.

A workaround is to use the filter 'template_include' instead, which allows us to specify a template that we want to use when displaying CiviCRM content.

This has the added benefit of giving a lot more flexibility to the user since we can now modify this template to include, or not, the WordPress sidebars, widgets, change the styling of content <div> or add custom CSS very easily.

Here is how to implement this change:

modify file wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm.php, line 386:
add_filter('the_content', 'civicrm_wp_invoke');
}
}
changed to:
add_filter('template_include', 'civicrm_wp_template_public');
}
}

function civicrm_wp_template_public($template)

{ return dirname(__FILE__) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'civicrm-public-pages.php'; }

create file wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm.php:
<?php
/**

• The Template for displaying CiviCRM public pages.
• Please change this template file to accommodate your needs and/or theme requirements.
  *
  */

get_header(); ?>

<div id="primary" class="site-content">
<div id="content" role="main">

<?php civicrm_wp_invoke(); ?>

</div><!-- #content -->
</div><!-- #primary -->

<?php
get_sidebar();
get_footer(); ?>