i added this in my Drupal theme:
<div id="sidebar">
<?php print $sidebar; ?>
</div>
Additionally I added this in the .info file:
regions[sidebar] = Sidebar
I then created a new block with "Add block" in the admin panel and assigned the created Block to the sidebar. Unfortunately everything i wrote in the block body is not saved and therefore the sidebar does not show any contents. If I update the block body and click on save and go into edit mode to have a look, the block body is empty.
Anybody knows why this happens and how i can solve this?
Thanks.
If this is in your page.tpl.php, you should be using $page['sidebar'] rather than just $sidebar. You also have to call render() on the region. Lastly, it's a good idea to check if it's defined first. For instance:
<?php if($page['sidebar']): ?>
<div id="sidebar">
<?php print render($page['sidebar']) ?>
</div>
<?php endif ?>
Don't forget to clear the cache after adding a new region as well.
See the Bartik theme's page.tpl.php for a more complete example: http://cgit.drupalcode.org/bartik/tree/templates/page.tpl.php.
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I really hope somebody can help me.
I'am working with visual composer and whould like to create a template to use on some page's.
I whant to create the first section in pure code and save it in my theme's as a template file.
Then when i pick this template in the page editor, i whould like to use visusal composer, but content made with composer should go below, what i have done in my theme's templatefile.
So if my template file in my theme folder contains a big image and some buttons, then i whant to output visual composer content below it.
Is that at all possible.?
When i try to pick another template file then the default i just get a blank output containing header and footer but no content from visual composer. When i use the default template, all works.
I whant to create a file where i can tell visual composer where to output content, hope it makes sense.
Kind regards
Dannie
Yes this is possible.
Below is a code-example of the template file where you can add your custom code wherever you like.
Name your file like this example-page.php
The ID's and classes are of course optional.
<?php
// Template Name: Your name
get_header(); ?>
<!-- Your custom code goes here -->
<div id="primary" class="content-area">
<main id="main" class="site-main" role="main">
<div class="container">
<!-- Or here, if you want it inside your container -->
<div>
<?php
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
the_content(); // Will output the content of visual composer
endwhile; // End of the loop.
?>
</div>
</div><!-- END container -->
</main><!-- #main -->
</div><!-- #primary -->
Need more instructions? Please let me know :)
I have been building my first theme on WordPress and have run into problem while adding content into different sections.
My HTML is somewhat like this,
<div id="maintext">
<-- Text -->
</div>
<div id="products">
<-- Text and Images -->
</div>
<div id="about_company">
<-- Text boxes -->
</div>
How do I make sure the content added via the WordPress editor falls under the respective divs ? For the "maintext" div I'll load the content from the page itself but how do I add content to the other 2 divs dynamically ?
I searched on a couple of forums and many suggested to add content using widgets, is there any way it can be done without using widgets ?
Any help will be gladly appreciated.
Unfortunately adding multiple editable fields in a single page is not particularly easy using WordPress by itself.
Many WP devs I know (myself included) rely on the Advanced Custom Fields Plugin for additional content fields.
The steps to make this happen:
1) Install the ACF the plug.
2) In the settings area for ACF create some new fields.
3) Assign the new fields to appear for a specific page or set of pages.
4) Update your page-template for the given page(s) so that the new fields are displayed.
For instance you might create a set of standard wysiwyg fields and then assign them to the 'overview' page. Let's call these fields: main_text, products_info and about_company. Once the fields have been created and assigned to a page, when you edit that page the additional fields will be available to edit.
For these new fields to be seen by visitors, they must be added to the page-template you use for your overview page. The code could be something like this:
<div id="maintext">
<!-- Text -->
<?php if(get_field('main_text')){ //if the field is not empty
echo '<p>' . get_field('main_text') . '</p>'; //display it
} ?>
</div>
<div id="products">
<!-- Text and Images -->
<?php if(get_field('products_info')){ //if the field is not empty
echo '<p>' . get_field('products_info') . '</p>'; //display it
} ?>
</div>
<div id="about_company">
<!-- Text boxes -->
<?php if(get_field('about_company')){ //if the field is not empty
echo '<p>' . get_field('about_company') . '</p>'; //display it
} ?>
</div>
There are lots of good examples here. If you are feeling really ambitious, rather than install the plugin you could even include ACF directly in your theme.
You've got three options I believe:
Create a widget area where you can then display the content in a text widget: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_sidebar
Create a template where you then get the content of a different page: http://codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates#File_Folders
Create a new meta box for all your pages: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_meta_box
I believe that the thing you are looking for is option 2. The others are more full-site oriented, if you want the extra content to show up on every single page.
If you are writing the theme, maybe you would like to consider using a WordPress Framework so you don't have to start from scratch.
If that is not the case, think of the end user. How will they add sections to pages and posts? Will they have to move across places within the WordPress UI, or would they rather user short codes?
My recommendation is to build a plugin that render the section within the document content. Or widget content if that is the case.
I wrote a little piece of code to illustrate how you can accomplish such a thing, and also because I kind of need it right now :D. You can find it on github here https://github.com/lionpage/Front-Office-Document-Sections
Hope this helps
<div id="maintext">
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
<div id="products">
<?php // echo wp function to get product data; ?>
</div>
<div id="about_company">
<?php // echo wp function to get about companydata; ?>
</div>
I've run into this issue several times now, and while the question is 3 years old, I think it's still rather current. I've succesfully used the Multiple Content Blocks plugin sometimes now:
https://ltz.wordpress.org/plugins/multiple-content-blocks/
After installing the plugin, you can just include the_block in your template:
<div id="maintext">
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
<div id="products">
<?php the_block('products') ?>
</div>
<div id="about_company">
<?php the_block('company') ?>
</div>
hi im currently developing a theme with that set up.
there are two ways to achieve this:
widgetized and fixed admin panel (customizer options)
i am using the two in my themes
if widgets
create a .php file that includes the widgets sections
create a widget for that section
if fixed in admin panel
you have to include the .php section in your functions.php
edit * advantage of widgetized is you can arrange them just like in a regular sidebar
Was struggling with this, and did not want to use a plugin. The only WordPress native option I found was to use Custom Fields. This works, but only for text, and is rather cumbersome.
The other non-plugin option is to simply use HTML in the WordPress editor, but this is of course far from ideal either.
Finally I gave up, and opted for the Advanced Custom Fields plugin as well.
I'm working on this website in WordPress and I want the content with the title "Featured Business" that's on the sidebar to appear on all pages. I created a template for it but it doesn't display when called. The code is as shown below.
<div id="ftb">
The content
</div>
<!-- End FTP -->
and I called it with <?php get_ftb(); ?> But it doesn't show.
If you want to display a chunk of html that's part of the sidebar (but not the entire sidebar), I recommend to place it on functions.php, like this:
<?php
function get_ftb() {
?>
<div id="ftb">
The content
</div>
<!-- End FTP -->
<?php } ?>
After that you'll be free to call it with get_ftb();
If you just need to call the entire sidebar, use get_sidebar() instead.
Good Evening,
I'm using Drupal 6, CCK Module, and the Link Field Type. All are installed and activated.
I created a custom content type called Slider. A user can upload an image, a title, and a teaser. I created a custom field for that slider content type as well as one called Link with the field name: "field_link_test".
I created an entry, filled in all of the data including a URL for that link field type and clicked "Save". In views-view-table--slider.tpl.php, I added:
Learn More
but on the front end, everything shows except for that link. I also tried emptying the Drupal cache.
Any ideas?
Update template code below, which all works fine, except for the new link value outputs nothing.
<div id="slider">
<div class="slider-holder">
<?php foreach($rows as $row): ?>
<div class="slide">
<?php print $row['field_image_fid'] ?>
<div class="info-slide">
<h2><?php print $row['title'] ?></h2>
<p><?php print strip_tags($row['teaser']) ?></p>
Learn More
</div><!--INFO-SLIDE-->
</div><!--SLIDE-->
<?php endforeach ?>
</div><!--SLIDER-HOLDER-->
<div id="control">
</div>
</div><!--SLIDER-->
The easy possibilities (which you've probably checked, but just to get them out of the way):
you need to allow the field to be viewable by anonymous/authenticated users in User Management - Permissions
Otherwise, it's hard to tell without some code to analyse. Could you post your entire views-view-table--slide.tpl.php and if possible, your exported view or a link to the exported view?
EDIT
Now that I've had a chance to look at your view, I've made a couple of changes that should help.
The reason your link URL isn't showing is that you're including the "Node: Link" field in your View instead of the "Content: Link (field_link_test)" field. The first one will just link back to the original node rather than your custom link. Also, I don't think you can call the $node variable from views-view-table (at least, I don't get anything when I print it. Instead, you can use the $row variable.
I have a version of your template that prints out the URL in the field "link_test" with the label "Learn More." I put the "Learn More" text in the View itself as that'll be easier to edit and works better with the Link CCK type (which by default will want to add a title you add in the node edit screen).
The view export is here: http://pastebin.me/0ed2942f6953cb00cab1bd5386058a13. You can import this back into your site, but you may want to clone your original View first to make a backup, so that if this isn't what you want, you can use your old version.
The updated tpl is:
<div id="slider">
<div class="slider-holder">
<?php foreach($rows as $row): ?>
<div class="slide">
<?php print $row['field_image_fid'] ?>
<div class="info-slide">
<h2><?php print $row['title'] ?></h2>
<p><?php print strip_tags($row['teaser']) ?></p>
<?php print $row['field_link_test_url'] ?>
<?php //print_r($row); ?>
</div><!--INFO-SLIDE-->
</div><!--SLIDE-->
<?php endforeach ?>
</div><!--SLIDER-HOLDER-->
<div id="control">
</div>
</div><!--SLIDER-->
Let me know if you have any issues/questions.
Are you sure the template is getting picked up (add <p>heavymark</p> above the href... does it show up?)?
If above shows up, add a var_dump($node) above the anchor tag and post the output so we can get a better idea of what's there (you probably want to enable XDebug so you get better formatted output, if its not on already).
Make sure you add the link field to the view in the fields section. This should allow it to be themeable from within your template file. If you are still not seeing it, try using
print_r($rows,1);
or some variable of print_r to view all the rows that are available to be themed.
Coming from a Joomla background one of the fist things I realised is that Wordpress 3 doesn't have native support for controlling the visibility of widgets (modules in Joomla).
I've tried:
Dynamic widgets - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dynamic-widgets/screenshots/ but it seems to break the admin menus.
Also tried Widget context - but it doesn't display correctly and doesn't allow granularity on the page visibility level.
Can anybody recommend a solution?
Try Widget Logic -- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/
Hope this helps!
-æ.
You can use Display Widgets. It adds checkboxes to each widget to either show or hide it on every site page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-widgets/screenshots/
Make sure to disable other similar plugins to avoid conflict.
Example from sidebar.php:
<div class="sidebar-box border-radius-6px">
<h2>Dream Categories</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_categories('title_li='); ?>
</ul>
</div><!-- Sidebar Box End -->
Lets say you want to display this only on a page called "about-us". use is_page() function provided by wordpress.
<?php if(is_page('about-us')) { ?>
<div class="sidebar-box border-radius-6px">
<h2>Dream Categories</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_categories('title_li='); ?>
</ul>
</div><!-- Sidebar Box End -->
<?php } ?>
And as for the user level:
<?php if(current_user_can('level_10')) { // Level 10 = Administrator ?>
<div class="sidebar-box border-radius-6px">
<h2>Dream Categories</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_categories('title_li='); ?>
</ul>
</div><!-- Sidebar Box End -->
<?php } ?>
Please see Wordpress User Levels
PS: I saw the plugin provided by aendrew and I had a look at it.
Try this:
Make a backup of widget_login.php file then open it, search for line 75 and replace it with update_option("widget_logic", "is_page('" . $wl_options . "')"); This should easy up the stuff a little, when you limit a widget you have to add is_page('bla-bla') in that input that line should only require bla-bla (If the page is called Bla Bla) [not tested, but you can give it a try.]
Try this:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/conditional-widgets/
Really user friendly, hope it helps
For anyone still looking for a plugin for this purpose, check out my plugin Widget Visibility.
It's user friendly (uses checkboxes) and works inside the WordPress customizer too.