I'm not a PHP developer and I don't understand the language at all. However, I'm asked to modify a PHP page. It's a WordPress blog. It has a block of code:
<div>
<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'pre-footer-1' ); ?>
</div>
When I load the page, I can see a sidebar added to a footer. I don't want the sidebar. I just want the information comes out fro the index 'pre-footer-1'. How should I modify the code to make it work? I tried:
<div>
<?php echo( 'pre-footer-1' ); ?>
</div>
Sorry, I just don't know how to simply show the content without the dynamic sidebar.
EDITED:
It's a Wordpress theme. The theme has a pre-footer that I can modify in the theme setting. The theme always show a sidebar on a pre-footer. It's not a bug, it's the way how the theme is designed. However, I don't like it and would like to get rid of the sidebar. I still want to show the footer just not the sidebar. I don't know php and would like a simple solution to modify the PHP code such that the sidebar is gone.
Did you try output buffering? Something like:
<?php
ob_start();
dynamic_sidebar('sidebar-id');
$sidebar = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
?>
This should get you the contents of the sidebar. Just echo the $sidebar where you need it.
Related
I'm making a WordPress theme by myself since I'm working for the first time in Wordpress I've watched some tutorials about it.
I have page.php header and footer and ofc an index. I insert the content from the pages with this:
<?php echo get_post_field('post_content', $post->ID); ?>
but I tried the get_post in a while loop with same result..
Everything is fine but when I want to use a plugin I can't add to my page... When I insert the shortcode of it it shows only the shortcode string... There are some plugins where I can click a "view" option and it would show a page with my plugin (for example a calendar) but that page is empty...
When I activate an original theme it works instantly... So I'm sure something is missing from my theme something which can load the plugins but I couldn't find solution for it.
Any ideas?
Did you add the <?php wp_head(); ?> function before the head area of the html document is closing? It imports important scripts and styles from wordpress itself (and probably also from the plugins).
See here:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_head/
Before closing the body area, the template should also include
<?php wp_footer();?>
See here:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_footer/
So, i finally got my css and js scripts to load on WP
Now there is but one thing i need to get done.
i have my own theme, including header.php, footer.php, page.php
header.php and footer.php is working just fine, loading scripts and showing properly, but now i need to add all the other content.
my page.php is currently:
<?php /* Template Name: CustomPageT1 */ ?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
I would need to somehow add html content to pages, i have about 20 ready made .php pages which needs to be transfered to WP.
Soooo how do i go about making new page (pages -> add new) and using page template while getting the html content to show up?
I've tried to just make new page and in text mode add up all the html into page, but it only shows empty page with header and footer, so the problem is most likely the page.php and i have no idea how to get it to work.
You can do look like this:
<?php /* Template Name: CustomPageT1 */ ?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
the_content();
endwhile;
?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
You are on the good way. While developing a custom theme from scratch is a great challenge it's not too hard.
I could recommend to take it easy and follow this tutorial I found really helpful some time ago, I learned a lot there:
Developing a WordPress Theme from Scratch
You must have the official source documentation always in your mind:
Theme Development
Do some reading and you will see that making themes is really fun and gratifying :)
EDIT:
I would recommend picking a good starter theme or framework and work using child themes. You have plenty of them to pick.
To get started adding a new page to your WordPress site, find the Pages menu in the WordPress Dashboard Navigation menu. Click Add new.
The WordPress page editor looks nearly identical to the post editor, except for a few different boxes located on the right side of the screen.
Add the title of the page, like About. Note: If you have pretty permalinks set up, the title of your page will also be the URL slug.
Next, add some content.
The Publish section of the page editor is exactly the same as for writing posts. When you’re ready to publish, you can either publish immediately, save this or a draft, or schedule the page to be published later.
The Page Attributes section applies a parent page and template to your new page. For the Parent section, you can arrange your pages into hierarchies. For example, you could create this new page with additional pages under it. There are no limits to how many levels you can nest pages.
Some WordPress themes have custom page templates, so the next Template section allows you to apply a template to your new page.
The Order box allows you to order your page numerically. Pages are usually ordered alphabetically, but you can choose your own order by entering a number in this field.
Preview the page one last time, then click Publish. You’ve added a new page to your WordPress site.
This is how your
your index.php should look like :
<?php
get_header();?>
<div class="YourContainer">
<div class="Whatever">
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="ContentSectionDiv">
<?php the_content();?>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else: ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php get_footer();?>
you can make also a custom loop
<?php
$arg = array("post_type" => "services",
"posts_per_page" => 9,
"order_by" => "date",
"order" => "ASC",
);
$services = new WP_Query($arg);
if ($services->have_posts()):;
while ($services->have_posts()):$services->the_post();
the_content();
endwhile;
endif;
?>
I m building a word press site with a unique theme that i created, now i got like 10 classes of different styles for the static pages in my site.
The question is, when i want to display the content of the page, with all the forms images and text, how should i do that? With the text editor where the user usually insert his content for the posts in regular wp website? Or should i insert the content images and forms hard coded in the php custom page template of those static pages?
In the text editor if i insert some html in edit as html it's becoming a mess it doesn't seems right to create sections and div where the user regularly just put his raw content, and anyway adding more content to a static page in the future will require my intervention to wrap it with css sections and div's definitions and classes...
By the other hand to write raw data with images and forms in the php custom page template doesn't seems to me the right choice... Is it normal to do so for static pages?
Thanks everyone!
Wordpress static pages, by default contains text and images that you can put into it using the Wordpress text editor. This content is known as "The Content" in WP context.
If you want to put into your static page some elements that cannot be setted by the text editor (like your own forms, per example) you'll need to create your own page template with hard-coded elements.
Example:
<?php /* Template Name: My custom page template */ ?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div id="article">
<div class="date"></div>
<!-- Your own custom content here -->
</div>
<div class="clear">
<?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?><div id="comments"><?php comments_template('', true); ?> </div>
</div><?php endif; ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
I normally will put those styles into styles.css of your theme. Even if it's images that will be standard images for the theme or shortcodes available to the user you want it to load from within the styles.css page. You don't want to do anything static like that with WordPress. Updates can mess it up as well as having issues with inline css messing up your SEO for the site.
If the user needs to do something in the editor to have an image show or something like that you can do it as a shortcode. That's normally going to be your best approach. Have you used shortcodes and loaded the images that before?
I'm using WordPress to build a simple personal website. I know (basic) HTML and CSS but no PHP, so I'm having a little trouble with a particular customization.
My theme inserts the title of the page at the top of the page. I would like to stop it from doing this on one page only (the home page).
Thanks for any help. The site is here: http://www.melvingauci.com/
Try going into your page.php template and remove <?php the_title(); ?>. Then add this:
<?php if ( ! is_front_page() ) { ?>
<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php } ?>
Note: This assumes your home page uses the page.php template. If another template is used, then the same approach will work.
i am trying to insert a post/page into one of my themes files and it wont display shortcodes or php
i have created a page called home in the wordpress admin-paned and inserted into my code the following:
<div id="home_page"> <!-- echos the content from the page "home" id:43 -->
<?php $home_id = 43;
$home_page = get_page( $home_id );
?>
<?php echo $home_page->post_content; ?>
</div> <!-- end #home_page -->
and non of the shortcodes that i have in the page work.
i installed a php in post or page and tried useing php and it doesnt work.
when i insert
echo do_shortcode('[youtube_sc url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db3XGpt6nNU]');
directly into the code it works.
does anyone know y this happens?
thank you.
I got an answer in wordpress.stackexchange.com
I Quote:
You need to apply the filter the_content e.g.:
<?php echo apply_filters('the_content',$home_page->post_content); ?>
Also, you don't need custom shortcodes for youtube, just put the URL in the content (but not a hyperlink), and it'll be swapped out for a youtube player at runtime. No plugins or extra code needed thanks to oembed.
Thank You Tom J Nowell
The $home_page->post_content value is the exact post content as stored in the database. Echoing this does not give any of your shortcodes a chance to run.
You should use a "WordPress Loop" to display the content, as this sets things up to allow you to use template tags such as the_title() and the_content() - this will call the processing functions for shortcodes and other functions like wpautop() that "massage" post content for output.
If you don't want to use a Loop, you could output the content using
echo do_shortcode($home_page->post_content);
This will run the post content through the shortcode processor, giving the shortcodes a chance to run.
For more on how WordPress "massages" post content, you can look here: http://codex.wordpress.org/How_WordPress_Processes_Post_Content