This is a question about Thematic framework. If this isn't the right place, just ignore this.
I'd like to ask how do I go about it? I copied the page template from the parent theme and renamed it to home.php and then I set it as the template for the home page. Then I added a hook to thematic_above_indexloop() in functions.php but it doesn't seem to work. Here's my action hook:
function show_single_post(){
$i=0; // Initialize to Zero;
if (have_posts()) :
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
if ($i==0) {$recentpostid = $post->ID; $i=$i+1;}
endwhile;
endif;
//get only the latest post
$posts = query_posts( 'p='.$recentpostid."'");
}
add_action('thematic_above_indexloop', 'show_single_post');
However, if I embed that code snippet into the home.php directly, it works. There must something wrong with my action hook? I am relatively new to using hooks pls enlighten me.
Since the hello world function works, I have to believe that your function is the problem.
There is a simpler way to get the single latest post:
function show_single_post(){
query_posts('orderby=ID&order=desc&showposts=1');
}
add_action('thematic_above_indexloop', 'show_single_post');
I tested this with Thematic and it shows the last post on the homepage. Give it a shot.
You can check out all the parameters accepted by query_posts on the Codex page
I'm not familiar with Thematic, so I browsed the documentation wiki at http://themeshaper.com/thematic/guide/. I couldn't find the action you reference there. Was it removed from the current version of the framework?
Create a simple "hellow world" function to test if the hook is broken vs your code being broken.
function hello_world(){
echo "hello world";
}
add_action('thematic_above_indeloop', 'show_single_post');
If you see "hello world" on your homepage, you'll know the hook is working. If not, you can be sure (as you probably already are) that your show_single_post function isn't broken.
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So I wrote a script which checks if there is a session with a certain name or not and echoes hello world but after switching to WordPress I wasn't able to use any of my old scripts. Whenever I type them it thinks they are text and just prints it. So I tried a couple of stuff like a plugin that I could add my script in and it produces a shortcode that I can use. I tried that but it didn't worked. I can't find what is happening.
Are there some sort of logs I can refer to? If someone knows the fix please help (I'll leave the code down below). result-id session is a msg and result session is another message.
<?php
if(isset($_SESSION['result-id'])){
echo("hello world");
else if(isset($_SESSION['result'])){
echo $_SESSION['result'];
}
session_unset();
?>
To start using sessions in WordPress you need to start it using an action hook:
function start_wp_session(){
if( !session_id() )
session_start();
}
add_action('init','start_wp_session');
If you want to custom code in WordPress, first you must create a child-theme of your currently active theme. Then in the function .php file of your child theme folder, you can write any of your code. But you cannot start writing directly in function.php file. You must bind your code in a custom function, and then hook that function with any hooks present in the WordPress.
Example hooks- wp_header, wp_footer, init, etc.
See the example below.
function custom_function(){
echo "Hello World!";
}
add_action('wp_head','custom_function');
You can wrap any code inside the custom function.
so we are making a wordpress site that automatically adds a link to a comment every time a comment is created. The theme we are using is html5 blank. I have written several lines of code into its function.php. however it is not working right now, here is what i wrote:
function bo_wrap_comment_text($content) {
$content = get_comment_text();
$texta = urlencode(get_comment_text());
$textb = "http://www.google.com/search?btnI&q=" + $texta;
return ''.$content.'';
}
add_filter('wp_insert_comment','bo_wrap_comment_text',1000);
a separate code(this one works) is tested here: http://phpfiddle.org and the code is:
<?php
$texta='i hate apple';
$textb=urlencode($texta);
$textc= "http://www.google.com/search?btnI&q=".$textb;
echo ''.$texta.'';
?>
the wordpress site is here. It is simply a static front page. the title you see there is the title of comment area. everything related with blog posts has been hidden using css. we have manually added links to several comments as prototyping. what we want is replace manual work with wordpress functions. I would really appreciate any help.
You need this hook instead to edit comment data:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/preprocess_comment
I'm trying to build a webshop with woo commerce which seems like a very nice and easy to use system. But I'm really having some trouble with it. A lot of times there's a function like this in the code: do_action( 'woocommerce_checkout_order_review' ) which outputs some HTML that I really want to change. The documentation that is provided isn't making me any wiser. How can I change this HTML. I would really appreciate any help trying to understand how this works!
The answer to the question, how do I modify the content ouputted in woocommerce_checkout_order_review ?
The answer:
The HTML is located in the template file here:
wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/templates/checkout/review-order.php
You can easily modify this content in a plugin or theme. Read more about that here: http://docs.woothemes.com/document/template-structure/
do_action( 'woocommerce_checkout_order_review' )
this is action declared somewhere, this is done so that whenever you want to add anything for example say "hello there", you dont have to hardcode it .. you can simply do it this way ..
function add_something() {
echo 'hello there';
}
add_action('woocommerce_checkout_order_review','add_something');
Refer here
Add Action
This would add "hello there" in the rendered html page..exactly where you have do_action('woocommerce_checkout_order_review'); in the code . keep this snippet in your functions.php and play with it ;)
Goal - have a section of my sidebar that is conditional depending on what page I'm on. All child pages of the selected page should also show the conditional section.
There are at least two ways to do this - 1) have all the conditional hooks and resulting code in one sidebar file and, 2) have multiple sidebar.php documents and call them based off what pages are being visited.
I've pretty much failed at both ways so far... :( I'm working on the second method right now though, because I think it might be more flexible long term. Anyway, in my page.php I replaced:
<?php get_sidebar() ?>
With
<?php
if (is_page(1997) || $post->post_parent) {
get_sidebar('sidebar-test-may12.php')
}
else { get_sidebar()
} ?>
With the hope of testing the method. What I want to happen is that if the page is page id 1997 or any of its child pages please show sidebar-test-may12.php. Otherwise show the regular sidebar. With the new code the whole page goes blank. Any suggestions or solutions for me? Seems like a common problem, but I haven't been able to figure it out yet. Thanks!
You have a few problems with your code example:
1) $post->post_parent is not being checked against anything else, so it will only return true if it is a child page (not necessarily the child of the page you want to target)
2) get_sidebar() is being called incorrectly. If you want to get 'sidebar-test-may12.php' from your theme folder, you need to call get_sidebar('test-may12')
3) You're missing semicolons after your function calls
So your code should look like this:
<?php
if(is_page(1997) || $post->post_parent == 1997) {
get_sidebar('test-may12'); //get sidebar-test-may12.php
}
else{
get_sidebar(); //get sidebar.php
}
?>
Let me know if that helps.
UPDATE: Bear in mind, $post->post_parent does NOT get the top-most ancestor ID of a child page. If you want to grab the top-level ID regardless of depth, consider doing this:
<?php
$ancestors = get_ancestors(get_the_ID(), 'page');
if(is_page(1997) || end($ancestors) == 1997)
get_sidebar('test-may12'); //get sidebar-test-may12.php
else
get_sidebar(); //get sidebar.php
?>
POSSIBLE SOLUTION: Building off your example and my proposed ancestry check, one thing you can do is have your template check to see if a special sidebar exists in your theme based on the parent page's slug. This way, if you decide a particular page needs a special sidebar for it and all of its children/grandchildren/great-grandchildren/etc. you just need to add it into your theme with a name of 'sidebar-{parent_slug}.php'. So:
<?php
$id = get_the_ID();
$ancestors = get_ancestors($id, 'page');
$top_page = $ancestors ? get_page(end($ancestors)) : get_page($id);
if(locate_template('sidebar-'.$top_page->post_name.'.php'))
get_sidebar($top_page->post_name);
else
get_sidebar();
?>
This way, you don't need a ton of conditionals to decide which Sidebar file to load on a general Page template.
Use some error trapping to show what's going on with your php, either toggling an error log in .htaccess of a simple widget: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/error-log-dashboard-widget/
I've hardcoded logic for sidebars, but I've also used WordPress › Widget Logic « WordPress Plugins for my own and client sites. It's easy to use with a simplified version of WP conditionals, like is_category and is_page ('101')
For someone else tackling this same problem -- there is a new plugin out that solves this problem very well. It even makes creating the sidebars easy. You can check it out here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-sidebars/
I've been stuck on this for a while. I'm working on a wordpress site where I wrote the theme from scratch, I use php calls to get the wordpress functionality that I need in certain sections.
I'm trying to use a plugin, but calling it via
echo do_shortcode('[STORE-LOCATOR]');
just isnt working. Even when I switch to the default template and post that code, it still doesnt work. It simply echoes "[STORE-LOCATOR]"
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[STORE-LOCATOR] is probably not a 'shortcode' in WordPress sense.
I encountered this on different plugin, Stream media player. They use the same syntax as shortcodes, but they are actually not.
Try using:
echo apply_filters( 'the_content',' [STORE-LOCATOR] ');
instead of do_shortcode, and see if it helps.
do_shortcode() returns a string.
I get it working by doing:
<?php echo do_shortcode(...); ?>
This is specific to the Store Locator plugin, not do_shortcode in general.
apply_filters can be an acceptable workaround for other plugins, but this does not work for Store Locator; you will only see an empty space and some controls. This is because it is looking for that shortcode in the page/post body to determine whether or not to include all of its js references at the top of the page. And without these references, nothing will work. See the sl_head_scripts function in sl-functions.php.
To change this behavior, simply modify that function to match based upon page title instead. In my instance I wanted it only on a "shop" page, so I commented out the entire $on_sl_page test and replaced it with this:
$on_sl_page = ( strpos($pagename, 'shop') === 0 );
I then called it from my page with apply_filters as indicated in the other answer:
echo apply_filters( 'the_content','[STORE-LOCATOR]');
And this appears to work perfectly.
echo do_shortcode('[STORE-LOCATOR][/STORE-LOCATOR]');
Try using shortcode after the WordPress environment has been set up.
function my_function() {
echo do_shortcode('[STORE-LOCATOR]');
}
add_action('wp', 'my_function');
If you're writing the whole thing from scratch, you'll want to make sure that the function you create is in the root php file of your plugin. The function might look something like this, but you'll have to sub in whatever logic you're using to arrive at the store location:
<?php
function doCoolStuff () {
$var1 = "value1";
$var2 = "value2";
$output = $var1+$var2;
}
return $output;
}
add_shortcode('SOTRE-LOCATIOR', 'doCoolStuff');
?>
Then in your template put the code:
<?php echo do_shortcode('[STORE-LOCATOR]');?>
Happy coding and good luck!