I have a page that has a single category applied to it, for this example, "Self Help Books".
I want to put a place on content type that display a "view all [insert category here]" that links to that category listing page. I was hoping I could do something like:
<a href=%taxonomyLink:books--self-help-books%>view all%taxonomy:books%</a>
and it would pull in the category for anything using that content type. I'm using the panels modules so I had planned on placing this in a panel the content type was using. Is any of this possible?
I thought about creating a block and placing that in a panel in the panels module.
(also, if you can't tell, I'm pretty fresh to Drupal.)
you can use simple drupal api function to achieve that.
first you will need to load needed taxonomy term (lets say that 123 is taxonomy term ID)
then build the link
here is the code:
$term = taxonomy_term_load(123);
$link = l($term->name, 'taxonomy/term/' . $term->tid);
you can also find more about l() here https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes%21common.inc/function/l/7
This Drupal docs page lists several modules that assist in displaying related content, via a few different methods.
As of now, the most stable 7.x compatible terms-based module appears to be Similar by Terms.
There are ways to achieve this without installing an additional module, but this will satisfy your requirements as-is.
You don't need to write code for this. If you using panels .. Find a way to put a right relationship in context for needed taxonomy term, after that you will have all the needed tokens (%placeholders) to build your content.
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I'm not a super-experienced Wordpress guy, but I generally know what I'm doing, and have been programming for years.
I'm in the middle of building a fairly simple Wordpress site, but lots of posts will be added in the future by the client.
It suddenly dawned on me that all my posts are static, so if changes in design are needed they will need to be applied manually across many pages.
I've searched Google but to no avail. What I need is a plugin or method that allows me to have templates for my posts, into which the unique content for each page are added. Then, if design changes are needed, I simply edit the template and the design will change instantly across all the pages using this template.
I've found plugins which seem to offer post templates, but all they seem to do is create a new post with a pre-made design, but do not make it possible to make changes to that design which are reflected across all the posts that use that template. Maybe I'm missing something simple here, as I can't be the only WP author who wants to achieve this?
I'm not talking about dynamic content. ie I have no need to pull constantly updated data like weather or prices from an API. The content is hand-written for each page, but I would like to separate it from the design, so if design changes are needed they can be made only once from some kind of post template manager, and not individually on each page.
Actually, I'm already using the simple post-snippets plugin, and I realise that I could use this or something similar to achieve my aim, but I don't think this would be very user-friendly for non-technical authors. Instead, it would be ideal if I had a set of custom fields under each post which the authors filled in, and the content was then taken from there and inserted in the page's template.
In principle you should be able to change the design just using CSS selectors. Of course that may have its limitations but there is never a design that fits it all.
For bigger changes you will need to change the WordPress template.
Ok, after some research and poking around, this is what I've come up with.
Install the 'Advanced Custom Fields' and 'Custom Post Templates' plugins , although neither are strictly necessary.
Create a group of custom fields which defines the unique data (URL, media selector etc) for each post.
Most importantly, create a new custom post template following the instructions for the 'Custom Post Templates' plugin. In this template remove the line that outputs the post content (the_content()), and replace it with code that outputs all the shortcodes or whatever for this page type, with placeholders string replaced with the values of the custom variables for that post. Then (in my case) I do something like do_shortcode($page_template) to correctly output the correct content for that page.
I create a new post, leaving the content field completely empty, and filling in the custom field's values as required. Also, you must choose the post template, so it matches the new custom template you create.
$v=get_post_custom_values("image_url")[0];//gets the id of the post which contains the image
$image_url = wp_get_attachment_image_src($v, 'medium')[0]; //get the image (URL?) from the reference
$page_template='[one_third last="no" spacing="yes" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" border_size="2px" border_color="#eaeaea" border_style="solid" padding="20px" class="" id=""][imageframe lightbox="no" style_type="none" bordercolor="" bordersize="0px" borderradius="0" stylecolor="" align="none" link="" linktarget="_self" animation_type="0" animation_direction="down" animation_speed="0.1" class="" id=""] <img src="#image_url#" alt="" />[/imageframe][fusion_text]Email Me | Website[/fusion_text][/one_third][two_third last="yes" spacing="yes" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" class="" id=""][fusion_text]#main_text_html#[/fusion_text][/two_third]';
$page_template=str_replace ( "#image_url#" , $image_url , $page_template );
echo do_shortcode($page_template);
The code above contains the page template hard-coded into the $page_template variable, but it could also be loaded by referencing the id of the post which is acting as the template.
This code currently only inserts the correct image URL. Once it's finished it will also insert the personal email link, website link, and main text.
I am trying to create a custom archive template for my categories. I have a parent category called
member-resources, which is a parent category for multiple other categories.
I do not want to access these categories by /category/member-resources.
According to wordpress documentation for template hierarchy, I need to create archive-member-resources.php and change the php code to display as needed.
However this template is not the one being rendered(archive.php is always being rendered), and if I try to access it by entering /member-resources I get a 404..
What am I missing ? thanks
[EDIT]
Excuse my wordpress skills as I have only been working with it for about a month..
I asked this question for a very simple reason. I worked on a project, in which I ended up with a massive archive.php file with alot of conditional logic such as :
if( is_category('events') ), render a side menu
if( is_category('news') ) , render something else
if( is_category('member-resources') ) render pagination
This is just an example, but I wanted to highlight that with different categories, I might want to call a completely different archive template( if at all possible ), rather than having a large file which is not very maintainable..
If this cannot be done, please provide me with a solution, so that on my next project, I wouldn't run into this problem again.
You should not use any type of archive page (archive.php, category.php, taxonomy.php etc) as a listings/index page. That is not what archive pages are intended for. Also, the template hierarchy specific to archive-xxx.php is for custom post types, not categories.
The main query on any archive page is quite specific and should not be tampered with on template level. It totally destroys pagination and common logic within the main query.
You should make use of a page template. Just simply copy your page.php, rename it to page-xxx.php, add the necessary page header and modify it as needed
For further reading
Page Templates
WP_Query
I am developing a site using Ubercart that shows product summaries on the main page (I believe these are called teasers). Each product has a voting widget provided by Vote Up/Down on its actual node/page. I've copied page.tpl.php to page-front.tpl.php because I want to add a small block or box that shows the number of upvotes on the main page (but not actually allow voting here) and finally sort these teasers by popularity (number of votes).
I can see that print $content is outputting this page's content but I am not sure where this is being generated so I can either hook into it or modify directly. I've coded themes and plugins in Wordpress but I don't know Drupal well enough yet.
Thanks in advance.
You should first know what is generating your front-page. Is it Views? Or another module?
If it's Views, you can easily add the vote count from the Drupal backend. If it's another thing, depending on what it is there are ways to change the output.
When I create a content type, I want to show all the posts of this content type on a page, I have to use view module. I don't like that.
Can I just specify the page and url when I create the content type?
But there is only one option, only front page. Can I change that? Hope you guys can tell me.
The views module is one of Drupal's killer features, you might want to reconsider writing it off completely.
Anyways, if you want to display all nodes of a type, you will have to code this yourself in a custom module. This means you will have to write some SQL, load the nodes and render them in a list. In this example you could use the EntityFieldQuery class to construct the query instead of writing the SQL yourself.
The end result will not be much different than what views will do for you, only difference is that you will need to create all of this with code in a module, instead of just setting this up in the Views UI.
I agree that views is a powerful tool that you shouldn't count out, but if you're set against using it (i refuse to use it on 2 of my sites purely due to overhead), You could use taxonomy instead. The taxonomy module already has a views style list for each term, I used this to achieve something similar to what you're looking for:
Set up a vocabulary whose terms match your node types and note the vid
add a hook_node_insert into your module file:
mymodulename_node_insert($node){
$terms=taxonomy_get_tree($my_vid); //where $my_vid == the vid of your vocabulary.
foreach($terms as $term){
if(strtolower($node->type)==strtolower($term->name)){
$items=array((array)$term);
$field['storage']['type']='field_sql_storage';
taxonomy_field_insert('node', $node, $field, null, null, $items);
}
}
}
After that you just need to add menu links pointing to your taxonomy page. Just as a note, I render all of my lists that I don't use views for with my own custom functions so I'm not sure what limitations this method might present.
I'm a drupal newbie...
I have different type of contents like News, Events, etc. and their content is different. News detail page has title-content text-date. but Events detail page has title-date-content text-location-speaker-etc. So I need different layout page for these different types. So, I enabled Drupal Themer to get a candidate name. for events page, it gave me page-node.tpl.php and it gives same for News page as well :( how can I separate these pages? I expected sth like page-event-node.tpl , but no... :/ Drupal Themer also give unique candidate name for event page like page-node-18.tpl.php but it doesnt mean anything since I can not create a general layout for all events by this node name. :(
Appreciate helps so much!! Thanks a lot!!!
While using different node.tpl.php files as suggested by monkeyninja (+1) would be the 'normal' way, you could add the functionality you want by adding page template suggestions based on node type yourself, in a preprocess_page function within a custom module/theme:
function yourModuleOrTheme_preprocess_page(&$variables) {
// If this is a node page, add a page template suggestion based on node type
if (isset($variables['node'])) {
// Build the suggestion name ('.tpl.php' suffix will be added by the theming system)
$suggestion = 'page-type-' . $variables['node']->type;
// Add to end of suggestion array, thus keeping the fallback to other suggestions,
// if this specific version is not implemented by the theme
$variables['template_files'][] = $suggestion;
}
}
With this in place, you should be able to add e.g. a 'page-type-event.tpl.php' file, which should be used for all event node pages.
(NOTE: You'll need to trigger a rebuild of the theme registry after adding that function to get it recognized by the system)
I'm not familiar with Drupal Themer, but a slightly different approach would be to work with the node templates to style the content and use something like the excellent Context module (and possibly Panels module) to change the layout of any additional information on the page (eg the blocks).
To theme the different content types using node templates, just create templates based on node.tpl.php in the form node-content_type.tpl.php. So you'd have a template for your events nodes called node-events.tpl.php.
You could then define a context using the Context module that reacted when a page of the events content type was displayed and select which regions/blocks you wanted displayed.