I've looked everywhere to work out how to do this, but I'm having no luck. I read up on Post Formats, but I don't think that's what I'm looking for.
All the posts on the frontpage are the same, but say, for features or reviews you can have an entirely different look compared to the "standard" single.php post.
Examples:
Homepage //
http:// ausdroid.net (All posts look the same)
Standard single post //
http://ausdroid.net/2013/02/03/samsung-galaxy-nexus-from-vodafone-receives-android-4-1-2-update
Different single post (for a review in this case) //
http://ausdroid.net/2013/02/02/huawei-ascend-d1-quad-review
Thanks!
Sample on using category to present different Singles:
single.php
<?php
if ( in_category( $foo ) )
require( 'single-foo.php' );
else
require( 'single-default.php' );
So you'll have the above simple code in the usual single.php, put your previous single.php to single-default.php, and create your "other" Single layout in single-foo.php.
$foo can be category ID or Slug.
in_category()
EDIT
You can modify this to work with Post Formats:
In functions.php:
add_theme_support( 'post-formats', array( 'aside', 'gallery' ) );
... then, change the if statement in my sample above to use has_post_format() instead.
has_post_format().
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/create-custom-single-post-templates-for-specific-posts-or-sections-in-wordpress/
this explains it pretty well using " Single Post Template" plugin, if thats an option
You can try adding custom fields to the posts and check them in the single.php to show different layouts. See this video for and example of a plugin doing just that - youtube.com/watch?v=L3VXnryN9iY
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I'm simply placing a small snippet of code on a woocommerce product page of my Wordpress website, to display an image "IF" the product has a specific TAG in place.
The code itself seems like it would be simple enough, and ive googled the heck out of this and tried many variations, with no luck on any of them.
<?php if( has_tag( 'tagnamehere') ) : ?> <div>my content</div> <?php endif; ?>
Also tried this:
<?php if( has_tag( 'tagnamehere' ) ){ echo '<div>my content</div>'; } ?>
Thats didnt work either.
basically, i just want it to look at the TAG of the product, and if the TAG exists, simply show the image (div). Nothing seems to work.
WordPress actually uses what's called Taxonomies and Terms.
Taxonomies are basically a grouping of Posts or Custom Post Types (like 'Category' or 'Post Tag', and Terms are basically the individual grouping names 'Featured Posts', etc.
WooCommerce basically registers a Custom Post Type called product, and also a Taxonomy called product_tag. Note, this is different than the default Tags on Posts.
Effectively this means you'll need to check if the term 'tagnamehere' exists in the product_tag taxonomy, the easiest way would be with the has_term() function. This is basically like the "Custom Post Type with Custom Category (aka Taxonomy)" version of has_tag()
if( has_term( 'tagnamehere', 'product_tag' ) ){
echo '<div>my content</div>';
}
Also to address your original "two versions" of code - The curly brace or alternative-syntax if statements work identically, and are mostly up to style/preference.
I'm using remove_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop' ); in my theme in order to disable Wordpress auto-formatting that adds paragraphs everywhere and often messes up the layout.
However, one of my clients wants to be able to add blog posts on his own. He needs to be able to format his blog posts from the WYSIWYG editor, minimally to have paragraphs.
Is it possible to allow the auto-formatting in blog posts only, or in posts of a particular type or belonging to a particular category?
So far all examples and articles I found use the exact same code as the one listed above. I also checked the https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags but didn't see anything there that could help me solve this.
So now that you've removed the regular wpautop filer, you could add your own in its place, and in it, only apply the wpautop only on posts of type "post":
add_filter( 'the_content', 'smart_autop' );
function smart_autop($content) {
$post = get_post();
if($post->post_type != 'post') return $content; // if not a post, leave $content untouched
return wpautop($content);
}
Hope this helps!
I am writing a Wordpress plug-in that creates several Custom Post Types (CPT). For they have their own custom fields, that need to be displayed in the search results, I need to customize the search results output.
Do I need to write my own theme for that or is there a hook (or other way) to solve this in my plug-in code?
You could hook into get_the_content and get_the_excerpt filters and test with is_search() to see if you should alter the returned value or not.
Not tested, but this is the idea:
add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'my_search_excerpt' );
add_filter( 'get_the_content', 'my_search_excerpt' );
function my_search_excerpt( $content ) {
if ( is_search() ) {
$content = 'This is a search excerpt for ' . get_the_title();
// maybe add a read more link
// also, you can use global $post to access the current search result
}
return $content;
}
I see four possibilities:
Create a new (child) theme
Override the search template using filters (template_include)
Use client-side code to modify the appearance (CSS / JavaScript, poor workaround)
Hook the_content or the_excerpt
The easiest way might be to copy the search.php file of your installed theme and modify it to fulfill your needs. You can then hook it in using the first or second way. The first requires you to create a child theme, the second to create a plugin. The latter might be more complex so I would suggest to create a theme (take a look at template files of child themes for an explanation).
The Wordpress site I'm working on has a section for "News" (which is the regular blog/posts) which will be used for any news the company has to write about. Then I have a custom post type for Promotions, which has it's own page.
I want the client to be able to add his promotion content through the custom post type, which is going on the Promotions page, however I'd like this content to also be "cross posted" into the blog/news without forcing the client to write it up twice.
Is there a way to do this? Thanks.
Just a note: The reason I have the promotions as a custom type on it's own instead of just having them do it all from the blog is because I needed custom fields that would be unnecessary for any other kind of blog post.
Two options:
1) Use the Shortcode API
And in your cross-post you'd add the shortcode [crosspost id="POST-ID"]. Where POST-ID corresponds to the numeric ID of the other post (post type). Instead of ID, the title could be used, see the function get_page_by_title.
Create your own plugin for this. Add a sample shortcode from the Codex and use the function get_post to get the contents of the cross-post.
2) Use Advanced Custom Fields plugin
With it, adding meta boxes with custom fields is a breeze. And it has a Post Object field that's basically a Cross Post functionality.
You could do it a lot more simply by adding a filter to wp_insert_data(). For example, in your theme's functions.php file add the following:
add_filter('wp_insert_post_data', 'post_to_other', 99, 2);
That filter will then run anytime you add a new post. In the function post_to_other(), you look to see what type of post is being submitted. If it's a promotion, then insert a second copy as a News item.
function post_to_other($post_id, $post){
/** check $post to see what type it is, if it's a promotion */
if($post->post_type == 'promotion'){
$second_post = array(
'post_type'=> 'post',
'post_title'=> $post->post_title,
'post_name' =>$post->post_name,
'post_content'=> $post->post_content,
'post_author'=> $post->post_author,
'post_status'=> 'publish',
'tax_input'=> array('taxonomy_name'=>array('news'))
);
wp_insert_post($second_post);
}
}
I'm running out the door so I don't have time to double check the exact code but that's the basic structure of it. The tax_input bit is optional, lets you specify a category if you want. You'll probably need to tweak it a bit but that's the basics.
I'm trying to create a Wordpress plugin that redirects visitors of example.com/redirect/XXX to a different page based on the value of XXX. I think I know how to do the redirect logic, but I don't know how to make sure that my Wordpress plugin function will be called when a visitor goes to example.com/redirect. Right now I just get a 404. There are other solutions that involved changing the .htaccess file, but I want this to function as a standalone plugin. Thanks!
When I need this kind of things i just create a common page with template as the "plugin", a page with all the functions that I need.
For example, if i need a shopping cart, I just create a cart.php as:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Cart
*/
// functions here
?>
And I go to my wp-admin and create a page with Cart as its template.
Depending on what exactly you want to do which is quite vague ( when you say page you actually mean page ? post ? cpt ? and when you say plugin functions - what are they ? and do you use permalinks ?)
.. but under some conditions you could use wp conditionals .
example ( from codex )
is_singular( 'foo' )
// Returns true if the post_type is "foo". execute plugin hook
is_singular( array( 'foo', 'bar', 'baz' ) )
// Returns true if the post_type is "foo", "bar", or "baz".
// See also the Custom Post Types book.
or if you aim at filtering you can always hook to pre_get_post with is_main_query() or any other conditional //