I have a simple HTML form that posts to a PHP page, which will then return the user some content.
I want to take this PHP code and get my WordPress theme to wrap around it, so that appears like a normal page on my site. I can't find any resources on this - where do I begin?
You can create a new page template by uploading a PHP file which starts with the following:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Something
*/
?>
Then create a new page in WordPress, and look in the dropdown box for Template on the right (depending on what version you are using). Select that, and that newly created page can now have whatever PHP code in it you want. You'll probably want to copy the default page template (if one exists) as a starting point.
Find out the post ID / page ID of where you want your custom PHP code to go.
Assuming that where your custom code will go is in a post, you should create a file in your theme's folder called single-POSTID.php.
Assuming that where your custom code will go is in a page, you should create a file in your theme's folder called page-PAGEID.php.
Copy the base code from single.php or page.php into the newly created file, and you can insert your custom code in the new files. Form actions should usually be "#" and if your form isn't working appropriately, it's most likely because of one of your HTML form fields are used by WordPress to do something. (e.g. a textbox with the name of "comment" will not properly work under your code, since WordPress will think you're trying to add a comment).
If you do anything that requires database access, WordPress keeps the DB connection alive in your theme, so you don't need to connect to the database again. Unless of course, whatever you're trying to do is in a separate database other than the one WordPress is installed in.
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I have created custom page in wordpress and in the page I have a form where users can upload a banner, and input some text.
The code is working perfectly on a local server. The problem is when I transfer to the live page, it is displayed as text instead of working normally.
I have tried to search for the page in cPanel but have later realized the pages are not stored as normal pages but stored in a database.
Please help me how to make my form work.
You can't put a php code (this is a code not a content) as a post content from the admin panel. A php file must be created (or using the functions.php) to serve that page and put the code there.
Find and open the functions.php file. It is located under the wp-content/themes/yourthemename/ folder.
At the end of the file (but before the ?> symbols if exist) add this code
function custom_function_for_your_page() {
// put your php code here
}
add_shortcode( 'custom_functionality', 'custom_function_for_your_page' );
Now as you guess, you can put the php code right below this line // put your php code here.
This is a shortcode. Now you can put that shortcode into the page content.
Open that page from the admin panel, where you've tried to put the php code. Instead of that code put this [custom_functionality].
Good luck :) Tell me if it doesn't work, we'll try more.
Looks like you may need a plugin, here is one such plugin I know about:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/insert-php/
I am trying to create a php website on WordPress for the first time.
When I create a page, it creates a permalink which is of the form http://localhost/?p=123. I don't know if there is a corresponding file.
I've installed insert-php plugin to read php code. It works fine on a static page. But how do I include another php file? I want to include my_utilities which contains all the back-end functions, in login. It has a permalink 'http://localhost/?page_id=45'.
What to do?
include 'http://localhost/?page_id=45' doesn't work.
Pages you define in WordPress's backend are pages mostly setup for your users to view / read. They, by default, have this URL structure of http://localhost/?p=123 (though this can be changed, but that's a whole different lesson).
To include a script file, upload the file to your folder structure where you have your website then refer to it in your include statement as follows:
include('path/to/folder/my_script.php');
EDIT: You may also want to have a look into WordPress Page Templates:
Pages are one of WordPress's built-in Post Types. You'll probably want most of your website Pages to look about the same. Sometimes, though, you may need a specific Page, or a group of Pages, to display or behave differently. This is easily accomplished with Page Templates.
For exapmle your wordpress file is at
/var/www/html/wp-content/myphpfiles/test.php
To include the test.php file in your wordpress page you have to following.
[insert_php] include('wp-content/myphpfiles/test.php'); [/insert_php]
Thats it.
I'm quite new to Drupal and want do some editing of the header. I want a custom toolbar to appear on every page. I've already created that toolbar in a file called toolbar.php. It has a layer which is fixed and will appear on top of every page.
How do I include the toolbar.php in the header template of drupal?
The toolbar refers to $user which is a global Drupal variable and I want to test toolbar.php before publishing it to the site. Is there anyway I can do that?
Regards,
Dasith
Of the two methods above the first is easier if you understand the basic idea of html and CMS templates, the second will be easier if you are a programmer.
First thing to check is that you really need to do this! Can't you restyle one of the existing menus (Primary or secondary) to do this - will make your life (and anyone who works on the site in the future) a lot easier.
The other thing you can do is look into adding an output region, basically something where you put the php into a drupal friendly format and then effectively do a 'drupal print'. This is how the toolbar, search box etc are done. You still need to alter the templates as above.
Yes for sure. If you want to have the html produced by your function/file appear on every page of the site then you will need to over-ride the page.tpl.php file in the theme you are using and essentually add the html to that file.
To gain access to the $user variable, just declare it in your script.
global $user;
open page.tpl.php file in a code editor and save as page-front.tpl.php (with two dashes if you are using Drupal 7.. one dash with Drupal 6) and upload it to your theme's directory. Clear your cache by going to configuration->Performance->Clear All Cache. Then referesh the page. Now your homepage is using page-front.tpl.php as it's template file. Every page will need its own template file. The page machine name comes after the hyphen so the user page template uses page-user.tpl.php. You can edit it as you want. The proper way to really do this is to use hook_theme() to pass variables to the template file. One variable could be the html which creates your custom header.
See also http://drupal.org/node/457740 Beginners Guide to over riding theme output
Since I had some comments on the formulation of my question, I decided to rewrite it completely. And also, I understand a little bit more about wordpress so it should make more sense now.
So, let's start with what I'm trying to accomplish by using a simple example:
Goal:
Make a search engine for some products and link to them using a database to generate the information.
Result:
http://my.site.url/wordpress/<plugin-name> <-- The page with the "search" and "search result
http://my.site.url/wordpress/<plugin-name>/products/<product_name> <-- When click on a search result
Part 1:
I want to make a plugin with the name "plugin-name" Right now, I put my code in
http://my.site.url/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/<plugin-name>
On the activate, I create some tables with some data. Since there is no page yet, I create 1 on the fly using the API call 'wp_insert_post'. I give the name and slug "myPlugin".
So, when I go on the main site, I can see my newly created page "myPlugin". But right now, there is no content attached to it. To do so, from what I understand, I need to create a page in my plug-in directory named "myPlugin.php".
http://my.site.url/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/<plugin-name>/myPlugin.php
So, how do I link the page I created manually and the source file in the plugin directory?
Part 2
When clicking on a link in the search result, I would like to have a page "product.php" and display its information. So, is it possible to create a "temporary url" for the result using sub pages (see result at the beginning)? And if possible, how can we achieve that?
Thanks in advance and I hope it's clearer.
u can find how to create plugin from
http://ditio.net/2007/08/09/how-to-create-wordpress-plugin-from-a-scratch/
in plugin write function for search(as per u r logic) fetch result
create a custom page refer video from www.wordpressmax.com/customize-wordpress/custom-page
in custom pages template in between get_header(); and get_footer(); call search function and display records.
Thats it.
thisMayhem is right. This sounds like a bunch of nonsense. But, if you're trying to make a WP page that executes some custom PHP, look up the WP template hierarchy.
What you can do is this:
create a WP "page" - call it "Search results."
create a template directory file called page-search-results.php (filename corresponds with slug of page from step 1)
put some generic header/footer stuff there (see other template files - most often it's just a question of putting in <?php get_header(); ?> and <?php get_footer(); ?>)
put PHP code in that thar page. in them hills.
if you use a caching plugin, may want to put an exemption for /search-results/
So, when someone pulls up http://your.site/search-results/ - your custom PHP code will execute. It's up to you to make that logic and communication happen - whether via $_GET or $_POST, etc.
I'm sorry you're experiencing some problems. Unfortunately as we say above because it's a 'one off' for a client project we can't support it - it works for them :) Feel free to rip it apart and retest and if you have any success let us know.
I wanted to create a new WordPress page that is actually a link to another site. The goal is to have the page show up in a list of my pages, but actually send the web user to the target URL.
For example, say I want to include a page that indicates "My Photos" but actually redirects them to Flickr.
I'm guessing one way to accomplish this is by using a custom template page with a redirect instruction in PHP, but unfortunately I am a newbie to PHP and am not familiar with the way to accomplish this...
You can accomplish this two ways, both of which need to be done through editing your template files.
The first one is just to add an html link to your navigation where ever you want it to show up.
The second (and my guess, the one you're looking for) is to create a new page template, which isn't too difficult if you have the ability to create a new .php file in your theme/template directory. Something like the below code should do:
<?php /*
Template Name: Page Redirect
*/
header('Location: http://www.nameofnewsite.com');
exit();
?>
Where the template name is whatever you want to set it too and the url in the header function is the new url you want to direct a user to. After you modify the above code to meet your needs, save it in a php file in your active theme folder to the template name. So, if you leave the name of your template "Page Redirect" name the php file page-redirect.php.
After that's been saved, log into your WordPress backend, and create a new page. You can add a title and content to the body if you'd like, but the important thing to note is that on the right hand side, there should be a drop down option for you to choose which page template to use, with default showing first. In that drop down list, there should be the name of the new template file to use. Select the new template, publish the page, and you should be golden.
Also, you can do this dynamically as well by using the Custom Fields section below the body editor. If you're interested, let me know and I can paste the code for that guy in a new response.
I've found that these problems are often best solved at the server layer. Do you have access to an .htaccess file where you could place a redirect rule? If so:
RedirectPermanent /path/to/page http://uri.com
This redirect will also serve a "301 Moved Permanently" response to indicate that the Flickr page (for example) is the permanent URI for the old page.
If this is not possible, you can create a custom page template for each page in question, and add the following PHP code to the top of the page template (actually, this is all you need in the template:
header('Location: http://uri.com, true, 301');
More information about PHP headers.
Alternately, use a filter.
Create an empty page in your WordPress blog, named appropriately to what you need it to be. Take note of the post_id. Then create a filter that alters its permalink.
add_filter('get_the_permalink','my_permalink_redirect');
function my_permalink_redirect($permalink) {
global $post;
if ($post->ID == your_post_id_here) {
$permalink = 'http://new-url.com/pagename';
}
return $permalink;
}
This way the url will show up correctly in the page no funny redirects are required.
If you need to do this a lot, then think about using the custom postmeta fields to define a postmeta value for "offsite_url" or something like that, then you can create pages as needed, enter the "offsite_url" value and then use a filter like the one above to instead of checking the post_id you check to see if it has the postmeta required and alter the permalink as needed.
I'm not familiar with Wordpress templates, but I'm assuming that headers are sent to the browser by WP before your template is even loaded. Because of that, the common redirection method of:
header("Location: new_url");
won't work. Unless there's a way to force sending headers through a template before WP does anything, you'll need to use some Javascript like so:
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
document.location = "new_url";
</script>
Put that in the section and it'll be run when the page loads. This method won't be instant, and it also won't work for people with Javascript disabled.
Use the "raw" plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/raw-html/
Then it's as simple as:
[raw]
<script>
window.location = "http://www.site.com/new_location";
</script>
[/raw]
There are 3 ways of doing this:
By changing your 404.php code.
By using wordpress plugins.
By editing your .htaccess file.
Complete tutorial given at http://bornvirtual.com/wordpress/redirect-404-error-in-wordpress/906/
I found a plugin that helped me do this within seconds without editing code:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin/
I found it here: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-link-title-external-url/
There is a much simpler way in wordpress to create a redirection by using wordpress plugins. So here i found a better way through the plugin Redirection and also you can find other as well on this site Create Url redirect in wordpress through Plugin
(This is for posts, not pages - the principle is same. The permalink hook is different by exact use case)
I just had the same issue and created a more convenient way to do that - where you don't have to re-edit your functions.php all the time, or fiddle around with your server settings on each addition (I do not like both).
TLTR
You can add a filter on the actual WP permalink function you need (for me it was post_link, because I needed that page alias in an archive/category list), and dynamically read the referenced ID from the alias post itself.
This is ok, because the post is an alias, so you won't need the content anyways.
First step is to open the alias post and put the ID of the referenced post as content
(and nothing else):
Next, open your functions.php and add:
function prefix_filter_post_permalink($url, $post) {
// if the content of the post to get the permalink for is just a number...
if (is_numeric($post->post_content)) {
// instead, return the permalink for the post that has this ID
return get_the_permalink((int)$post->post_content);
}
return $url;
}
add_filter('post_link', 'prefix_filter_post_permalink', 10, 2 );
That's it
Now, each time you need to create an alias post, just put the ID of the referenced post as the content, and you're done.
This will just change the permalink. Title, excerpt and so on will be shown as-is, which is usually desired. More tweaking to your needs is on you, also, the "is it a number" part in the PHP code is far from ideal, but like this for making the point readable.