WordPress Editor Image for Shortcode - wordpress

Quick question about WordPress. I've been Googling all over the place and cannot find an answer.
Basically I'm looking to replicate what happens when you add a gallery: have an image displayed as a stand in for the gallery shortcode [gallery]. The shortcode's visible when you go to edit HTML.
I'd like to exactly copy this effect: When a shortcode inserted into the editor I'd like for to to be rendered as an image.
Things I've Tried:
Inserting an element (image, div, I found an input is pretty unfuckwithable, etc) that's wrapped by a shortcode (This works ok, not great. The short code's still visible and WP will auto add paragraphs to the element to create space that users could, possibly, add content that'll be eaten by the short code) -
Inerting the short code as a < !-- --> comment (This also doesn't work great, WP will occassionally eat it moving between Visual/HTML. The comments ALSO eat your content < !-- [shortcode]--> placeholder < !--[/shortcode] --> = < !-- rendered shortcode -->)
That's the extent that I've thought of things. I cannot find a guide on how to do mimic the [gallery]'s behavior and can't find it by going through wp-admin's guts.
Thanks!

Alright, found the answer thanks to Dan's hint. Here's how to do it:
First (as Dan suggested) take a look at how they add the Gallery plugin to Tiny MCE. There's actually an uncompressed js file that will give you the overview you need, find it in:
/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wpgallery/editor_plugin.dev.js
This goes over the basics on adding this type of plugin to TinyMCE (more info here). To get WP to load the .js file with your TinyMCE plugin, see this helpful guide.
Basically here's the code:
if ( get_user_option('rich_editing') == 'true') {
add_filter("mce_external_plugins", "add_jolokia_tinymce_plugin");
//Applying the filter if you're using the rich text editor
}
function add_jolokia_tinymce_plugin($plugin_array) {
$plugin_array['example'] = '/path/to/example.js';
return $plugin_array;
}
Add this to a plugin or function.php in a theme And you're good!

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NEED HELP - how to make an excerpt of the post clickable?

I am working in Wordpress, and I am using Elementor. Elementor has a native feature for the title of the posts and images to link to the post.
But if I add an excerpt text, it doesn't link to the post. It is not clickable. The read more button does, but not the excerpt of the post.
I am trying to create something like this: greatist.com Every post on their website is clickable - the excerpt, the title, and the image.
My excerpts are really short like on that website, and I would really like them to be clickable. I have absolutely no idea how to do this and I'm beginning to think it's not possible. I am using Hello Elementor theme.
I would deeply appreciate anyone's help. I just registered to ask this question.
You can always try to save text as an photo and make it clickable or make a full section clickable.To do this try to use plugin called "Make Column Clickable Elementor".
Add this code to your website:
const postExcerpts = document.querySelectorAll('.elementor-posts .elementor-post .elementor-post__excerpt');
postExcerpts.forEach(postExcerpt => {
const postUrl = postExcerpt.parentNode.querySelector('.elementor-post__title a').href;
postExcerpt.addEventListener('click', () => {
window.location.href = postUrl;
});
});
This can be added using a script tag. Choose from the following options:
Add this code as a script tag in your functions.php file, to be rendered at the end of the page (wp_footer action hook).
If you have Elementor Pro, use its built-in Custom Code feature to add the code in a script tag to the end of the body tag.
It's recommended to add a pointer cursor so the user will know the excerpt is a link. This can be achieved by adding the following CSS to your style.css file.
.elementor-posts .elementor-post .elementor-post__excerpt {
cursor: pointer;
}

Add comments to wordpress inspect element page

As the title says, I want to add some sort of signature with comments on my wordpress index file, thing is - there are 30 different index files and none of them seems to work
If I understand correctly, it'll just be a case of adding some HTML comments (not PHP comments as they won't show in the source code) in your theme files. Bear in mind that editing a theme won't work if someone else made it and releases updates to it as it'll overwrite your changes if you update it.
The best place to add in the comments is to either open the header.php file and place your HTML comments after the opening <body> tag. If your theme doesn't include a header file, you could always add your comments to the top of your themes index.php file instead.
Your theme should be located within /wp-content/themes/YOUR-THEME/.
Alternatively, you could also place HTML comments between the <head> tags of your theme so they show up a bit higher in the source code. To do this, it's probably best to use an action hook instead. Place this in your themes functions.php file:
add_action( 'wp_head', 'add_signature_to_theme', 1, 0 );
function add_signature_to_theme() {
?><!-- Welcome to my website. --><?php
}
The wp_head action hook documentation is useful to have as reference as well if you'd like a bit more information on what it is and what it does.

Wordpress automatically adding paragraph

So I am working on making a child theme of the "twenty fifteen" theme.
So far I have made custom post types with custom fields. It is imperative that I use custom fields for adding Soundcloud embedds. I have used the "Advanced Custom Fieds" plugin to do so.
Now, the problem I have is that whenever I use the custom field to add a soundcloud widget (just by pasting the link) it seems that the WYSIWYG Editor is adding the link inside a paragraph like this
<p>https://soundcloud.com/skitofficial/skit-ghost-dog</p>
This causes (I think) a white line (a new paragraph) to appear below the Soundcloud widget.
As you can see in the picture below, if I open the code view of the WYSIWYG I can spot the paragraph lines being added around the link.
So all in all, the main problem for me here is the white space below the soundcloud widget. Perhaps it does not have to do anything with the paragraph tag, but either way I the space below the widget looks bad, unprofessional and I need to remove it somehow. Now you may say "why don't you just remove those paragraph tags?" and that is the problem, even if I remove them, they are added automatically.
So, any suggestions would be very appreciated. I have worked my head on this for three days without any progress.
Edit: this question is old and I do not have the site anymore.
I would just add this style to a global stylesheet:
.SoundcloudEmbedd p { margin: 0; }
seems safe
Wordpress WYSIWYG pops in <p> tags. If you're not careful, it will <p> all over your content.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wpautop
Pop this into your functions.php
remove_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop' );
EDIT
If you're using ACF, the text area field type has an option for whether or not to add the <p> tags. As mevius suggests, depending on your use case, you may want to consider using the URL field type.
OR, you can use this when calling the field in your theme.
the_field('wysiwyg_field', false, false);
It's possible that the WYSIWYG is adding those <p> tags, due to WordPress's wpautop function.
Rather than completely disabling wpautop, you could remove the <p> tags using a combination of get_field() and wp_strip_all_tags():
echo wp_strip_all_tags( get_field('field_name'), true );
EDIT: On second thought, why are you using a WYSIWYG for this at all? If you're just pasting a link, you should consider using a text field, or a url field.
I did not have access to the code, nor I had access to any plugins, hence I tried this only using the WYSIWYG editor.
To remove the any unwanted paragraphs from any particular web element like div just follow these steps:
add a class to your div (the div which is containing that unwanted paragraphs).
Write a javascript function using querySelectorAll.
Example Below:
var blankps=document.querySelectorAll('.removePara p');for(var i=0;i<blankps.length;i++){blankps[i].remove();}
<div class="col-xs-12 col-md-3 removePara">
<p></p>
How to Remove Empty Paragraphs. Solved.
<p></p>
</div>
Note: This will remove all the paragraphs inside any div which has class="removePara".
Hope this helps someone.

Adding A Button Between post-content and Related Posts Thumbnail Plugin on WordPress

I am trying to add a button to my WordPress template. Basically, I have the post and then there is the Related Posts Thumbnails widget that appears. I want the button to go between the text of the post and the related posts thumbnail widget. The code in my 'Single Post' that contains all of this is as follows:
<div class="post-content">
<?php the_content(__('<em><strong>More:</strong> Read the rest of this entry...</em>', 'life-is-simple')); ?>
</div>
I know the Related Posts Thumbnails plugin falls within this code because it's at that place when I 'Inspect Element' on Google Chrome. I can't find how to edit the order of things within that div though. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
EDIT
Clarification: I am using the Life Is Simple WordPress theme although it has been custom editing quite a bit (mostly on the CSS side of things though).
That plugin is probably appending the output to the_content with a filter .
That means , that the output is being added to the_content automatically. it is a common behaviour.
You need to look at the pluginĀ“s admin interface to see if you can have an alternative way (I believe there is ) which is using a template tag. in that case, you should put the template tag after the div where the the_content() is .
EDIT I :
After a small dig, - in fact there is - you need to put
<?php get_related_posts_thumbnails(); ?>
Then the plugin should know by itself not to append to the_content.
For parameter passing, or if something is not working, go read their APi or help files.
You'll probably need to edit single.php or archive.php in your theme. If nothing is occuring there that looks familiar, it's probably using a loop. In which case you might find what you are looking for either in loop.php, loop-single.php, or loop-archive.php depending on what type of page you are on and how the theme was constructed. Add your button near where you find Read the rest of this entry...
With more information (such as what theme you are using), one might be able to help more as well.

Wordpress discontinuity between Excerpt and its 'more-button'

I'm building a custom Wordpress theme.In my index.php page i'm looping to display the excerpts for all of my blog-posts.
this is how I break the post flow:
//At first I place <!--more--> in my post-text where I want to break it..
the_content('more');
Now the point is I'd like to place the 'more' button not right after the excerpt.I'd like to place this button in another div containing other link-buttons (tags,comments-count ecc).
The only thing I came up with is using a span around the 'more' button (with absolute positioning).
Is there any better solution?
thanks
Luca
The fact that WP injects the read more link into excerpts, rather than just giving the formatted excerpt, has always been a problem for me, too. Especially since what surrounds the link is dependent on where the author placed it: inline or on a new line, before or after an image, inside or outside inline markup. Here's what I've done in the past -- I'm not sure whether this is the best solution but it should work...
get the raw, unformatted post content: $content = $post->post_content
get the excerpt by using explode("<!--more-->", $content).
run the excerpt through the the_content filter: $excerpt = apply_filters("the_content", $content[0]);
Balance the tags... $excerpt = force_balance_tags($excerpt)
On the whole, a better solution may be to ask authors to provide a text excerpt to go with each post rather than relying on this kloodgy method.

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