I want to do something that is not offered in the basic theme options and would like to edit some backend code. Can someone tell me if this is possible to do via the online editor or if I need to create a local environment?
Here is the current menu showing articles on the site:
Current Dropdown Menu Image
What I am trying to do:
As you can see right now the menu is only displaying the title of the article. My goal is to display in excerpt from the article. This function is available for blog post on other parts of the site and I would like to make it available in the menu location.
Here is a list of the files I am able to edit online via Wordpress:
Available Wordpress Files Image
Is what I need to edit on this list? I know once I find where I need to be working I can figure this out. Since I am totally clueless about wordpress I don't know where to start.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
You can access the backend files. Here is an overview of what the different files are responsible for:
https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/#the-template-hierarchy-in-detail
Here is a dedicate article for excerpts:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Excerpt
Hey so it is actually very easy to edit the theme files and view them through a plugin called Wp-Editor.
Just install it, activate it and go to Appearance > Theme Editor and then you will see your existing files in your theme.
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I tried researching it but do not find a direct answer I am trying to move a kentico cms website to wordpress but would like to know if it is possible to copy the kentico theme design to then place it within my new wordpress website?
Thank you all feedback and suggestions welcomed.
Not without manually changing some parts around and adding the WordPress related functions, no.
While you'll probably be able to copy your CSS file, you will have to do the basic WP theme work, e.g. adding the informational comment to your style.css, make sure your header and footer call wp_head() and wp_footer(), add the functions to work with the loop to output content etc.
You can find lots of detailed documentation on creating themes in the codex.
what is the best possible way to edit codes of a Wordpress theme of an existing website? Say for instance I have a menu bar with all the features like About Us, Contact, Objectives. But i want to add one more to it(say Gallery). So how am i supposed to proceed?
If you just want to change the content of the website, you don't have to change anything in the theme.
If you are using any GUI for changing just search around. In the wordpress-site you have to go to: My website -> themes (adapt) -> Menu
there you can add or change the entries.
If you have a complete website made with a wordpress-theme on a server you will need some html knowledge to solve this problem. But its not that complex.
Without the code, noone here can tell you the solution.
Greetings to developers community.
I'm new(beginner) on wordpress developing. I wanted to challenge myself and try to build a wordpress theme from an existing Static Website, (HTML to WordPress).
I've come across a problem or better to say I'm not having an idea of what to do on this step of development and wanted to ask for any advice or references on how to manage dynamic content on pages. What I want is: From the Dashboard if a user want to edit the content of a page how can he achieve it and do it without wanting him to go over the code. I am going to post a screenshot because I might not be cleared of what I want.
Screenshot
So those description how should be inserted on the page and be modified later if wanted without braking the style or model of the page?
I've tried Custom Fields but WordPress has a limit and can't add as many as I want and the list of custom fields went large.
Thank you in advance.
Your issue is easily solvable with a dynamic content plugin. you can try "Dynamic Widget Content" or If>So Dynamic content. Both free and worked great for me.
I've been trying to develop my own theme and in need of some help regarding adding content to the footer.
I need to add some text to the footer which could be changed via the admin panel. I know about the Advanced Custom Fields Plugin, but I would like to learn how this can be done without using it.
I've seen theme's where the footer(or other) changes can be made via Appearance > Theme Options section in the wordpress dashboard and I too would like to do the same.
I would be grateful if anyone could provide me a link or help me start with the process of doing so.
Regards,
Vinith Almeida
You can install the OptionTree plugin for WordPress. Then you can set your theme settings via the plugin, and then when you come to the footer section, you can use the ot_get_option() function to use the user value.
You can also watch this video for more help : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS0WlHITVfc or this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9JQJAu0X30
You can always register your own code for an option page that can contains options for your theme, but this requires deeper knowledge of the WordPress.
Is it possible to create an image gallery in wordpress that is managed by the admin via it's own page / panel. I am not talking about creating a new post and adding custom html for each image. I mean actually having a page in the admin that has the ability to upload and manage your images?
If it is possible how do you go about creating a custom page like this? I understand the PHP side of uploading and manipulating images, but I don't know how to integrate it with wordpress. I don't need a full blow tutorial on how to do this, but if you could just point me in the right direction that would be great.
One issue that comes to mind right away, is if this is possible would upgrading wordpress break the code? Since I assume you have to edit the admin files directly and you can't just do it from your own custom template?
From playing around I found NextGEN Gallery (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/) that has a tab in your admin panel. It looks like it would meet your needs.
You can manage all your media from the WordPress Media Library using tags if you install Tag Gallery
It requires the Media Tags plugin but it makes managing galleries so much easier and your using the built in media facilities of WordPress so it's not disjoint from the experience. There is a new version in the works that will offer much more impressive functionality as well.
Hope that helps.
There are a huge amount of image galleries for wordpress already made. Have a quick google for some (search "wordpress image gallery") and see if any of them are suitable (I'll be surprised if one of them isn't).
Failing that, you'll need to create yourself a Wordpress Plugin.
I've integrated ZenPhoto into my wordpress blog. It was pretty easy, would probably take you a few hours. The admin pages are completely separate from the wordpress admin pages, so you can easily give access to only one person.
You can create a custom post type called Gallery to manage create and manage image galleries. The post will have its own "Gallery" panel in the admin section and from there you can add new galleries just as you describe. There are lost of tutorials for creating gallery custom post types.