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.
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I'm very new to WordPress (tbh, it's my first time working with it). And I need to make a website as my school project using CMS. Creating pages with templates is alright, but I have a lot of troubles with buttons. I found this website, and I can see it using WordPress. I need such buttons as on this page https://movie-chooser.co.ua/random-movie-2/ (they appear when you hover over the image). Is this a default option for buttons in WordPress? If not, is there a plugin for this or what is the way to add them on my images?
First Install Elementor plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
and go to page when you add button and open page with elementor
and do drag and drop any element like button, space, text editor etc.
You have several ways to achieve that:
Overwritting Wordpress CSS
Using a plugin
Create your own shortcode
1 - Overwriting Wordpress CSS
If you manage to display all the elements using wordpress template, and your only issue is to display buttons over the images, then it should only be a matter of CSS
2 - Using a plugin
The idea here is to find a plugin that help you to create/display the informations you need (maybe you'll need to add functionnality to basic post though custom fields or using a custom post type).
Once you find the right plugin, again if the plugin dosen't directly offert some settings on the design then you'll have to overwrite the plugin's CSS rules to display the elements as you want.
3 - Create your own shortcode
If you're new to Wordpress I wouldn't recommend this method as it is kind of advanced, unless you're comfortable with PHP/HTML/CSS (optionaly JS).
This is the more flexible solution as you can basically control anything, but it will require you to understand some core concepts of Wordpress like WP Query and how custom queries works.
The idea here is to create a shortcode.
THis shortcode refere to a custom made PHP function, in which you can create a custom request to fetch the informations you need to display from Wordpress database, and display it in an HTML structure that you decide.
THen angain, you'll just have to customize it though CSS.
Note : no need to create a whole plugin if you decide to create a shortcode, you can use the template functions.php file for that.
I am trying to implement a simple one page -no blog- WordPress theme using a bootstrap template. I have an aside with three social links -facebook, twitter, Instagram- in the header.
I want to be able to make it so not only are these able to put truned on or off in by the user through the wp admin dashboard, but also the links to those sites able to be put in through said dashboard.
I am using udnerscores as a starter theme. How do I go about doing what I am looking to do?
This can be achieved using the Customizer API. That would be my recommendation. There is a lot of really good documentation on how to use that here. It also includes a whole bunch of sample code. Give that a look.
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.
I am using a premium woocommerce theme.I don't like the position and look of the search-bar.Its tiny and I want to make it look like Google search-bar.So I want to change it.I don't know coding that well.What specific thing should I do to make it happen.What coding language I have to learn to do this?
If you are lucky the Premium WooCommerce theme which you have bought must have an option to add Custom Code(CSS) through the WordPress dashboard itself.
If not please go through the following procedure:
You can change the look and position of the WordPress searchbar using CSS. In order to add the CSS to your WordPress site you need to know basics of PHP how exactly WordPress works.
You need to enqueue style in theme's(Creating a child theme of your theme is more preferable to avoid the loss of code due to theme update) function.php file or using you own custom plugin.
Both these options are given in details in this link.
Languages you need to know:
PHP, CSS
You need not have to be master of PHP to do the changes just the basics of php is fine.
HI Currently i'm using wp 3.05, i add following code
{{wp-favorite-posts}} to page it working fine
while i place the code in my user dashboard
i just shown the code as text which is {{wp-favorite-posts}}
what i already do troubleshoot, reactive this plugin.
Question: how to place {{wp-favorite-posts}}in my user Theme dashboard
Appreciate for any suggestion.
thank you in advanced
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/
You can use the section "Tools - Managing your Blog" on the dashboard and add your favorite posts. Refer to the WordPress codex at http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels
The admin side of Wordpress doesn't parse tags much. If you want to include a plugins functionality into your theme, you'll have to call that plugins functions directly ... or change the plugin's code to also parse the admin content.