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.
Related
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 am building an artist directory page which displays all the artist pages as thumbnails with captions.
I would then like it so that when you click on one of the thumbnails it takes you to that page and shows the various fields ACF.
However, it only shows the title and I cannot get it to display the bio field at all!
<h1><?php echo $post->post_title; ?></h1>
<div id="artist-bio">
<?php the_field('artist_bio'); ?>
</div>
first, it's a good practice to check if your fields have been set in the first place. You can test like this:
if (get_field('artist_bio') {
the_field('artist_bio');
} else {
echo "Artist bio has not been set";
}
If it's claiming that it hasn't been set, yet you're sure it is, then there's probably an issue with the loop. Are you inside the default loop, or are you running a custom query? In the latter case you would need to modify your command like so: the_field('artist_bio', $post->ID).
I know drupal a bit.
I am creating a custom theme and defined a region in my themename.info as
regions[search] = Search Bar
And added the below code to my page.tpl.php
<div id="search" class="search_box">
<?php if ($page['search']): ?>
<?php print render($page['search']); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
And I enabled search form via Block administration, so everything is fine now.
But, I want to create my custom search module. Please provide me some sample code, so that I can understand.
In explanation, I want to create a hook menu and function which can print what I want and also how can I enable the function to be printed on the region.
Thanks all.
In Drupal each piece of content that can be placed into a region is called a "block". So instead you want to create a Custom Block. Here's a guide, http://fourkitchens.com/blog/2012/07/18/building-custom-blocks-drupal-7.
https://drupal.org/node/1074360, Here is the Drupal module creation tutorial, the guide "generating block content" will be helpful for you.
For a client site that I am working on, the client wants to be able to associate certain custom post types to a given page. my supervisor has pointed me to the website of a previous client that did something similar. They used the Post Page Associator plugin (which seems to have been removed from the plugins list).
Here is a link to the plugin I am using: http://www.mediafire.com/?2dpbxac73rsn8l6
I've tried my best to modify the code inside the plugin to handle the custom post types I wanted to use (which the changes are included in the download). The main conflict comes from this piece of code (from the previous client's page.php file)
<?php
$sidebar = new WP_Query( $args ); //queries for posts
$sidebar = wp_plugin_post_page_associator::get_associated_posts ($post->ID); //looks for associated posts via the plugin, the main offending line of code
if ($sidebar!="") : while ( $sidebar->have_posts() ) : $sidebar->the_post();
?>
<div id="sidebar-content"> <!-- sidebar area -->
<h1 class="blue-text"><?php the_title(); ?></h1> <!-- the title of the associated post -->
<div class="divider"></div>
<?php the_content(); ?> <!-- the content of the associated post-->
<br/><br/>
</div>
<?php endwhile; else:?>
<br/><br/>
<?php endif; ?>
I was wondering if there was a way to determine what kind of post type the associated content is so I can change the WP_Query settings accordingly. If I comment out the second line of code with $sidebar, then all posts gets displayed in the sidebar. Is there a solution to this problem, or is there a better plugin for this?
I found a replacement plugin that does exactly what I need and shows me how to do it: http://www.cssigniter.com/ignite/custom-post-types-relationships/
I am trying to create a Wordpress site. The design is Here
I have created most of the outline of the site, barring the 3 regions "Follow Us", "Self Employment" & "Into Work Consortium".
The client has told me he would like to make those 3 regions editable.
My template contains an Index file, Header & Footer File as well as the obvious CSS files.
I am using the "Multi Edit Plugin" Multi Edit Plugin but that guide, does it so that you create a CustomPage. I guess I could do that but what I want is my index.php file to be added to the admin side of the site and then point the template there or similar.
As it's getting a little frustrating working with multiple WP plugins that just don't seem to do the job correctly.
There are many ways to go about this: one being what was mentioned by Pekka and the other using Custom Page templates.
The above mentioned methods are, in theory, quite similar with subtle differences in terms of execution and inclusion.
Perhaps to better answer your question, I will provide a very brief sample outline below on Custom Post Templates. You may probably need to do a little more digging at Wordpress' Codex if you choose to further enhance anything else:
Custom Post Template Method
Referring to the wireframe provided in your image link, I propose that you use category filters to filter the associated posts to the right columns. So first up, you will need to create 4 categories for the method that I'm suggesting, namely: WELCOME, FOLLOW, SELF-EMPLOYMENT and CONSORTIUM.
After doing so, your index.php should look something like this:
INDEX.PHP
<?php get_header();?>
<!--container-->
<div id="container">
<?php query_posts('category_name=welcome&showposts=1'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<!--top-content-->
<div class="top-content">
<h2><?php the_title();?></h2>
<p><?php the_content();?></p>
</div>
<!--top-content-->
<?php endwhile;?>
<!--bottom-content-->
<div class="bottom-content">
<!--follow-->
<div class="follow">
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/follow.php');?>
</div>
<!--follow-->
<!--self-employment-->
<div class="self-employment">
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/self-employment.php');?>
</div>
<!--self-employment-->
<!--consortium-->
<div class="consortium">
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/consortium.php');?>
</div>
<!--consortium-->
</div>
<!--bottom-content-->
</div>
<!--container-->
<?php get_footer();?>
What is happening here is that I'm doing a post query for posts tagged to the category "WELCOME" and filter the posts into the top-content DIV. Note that my loop starts right before of the top-content DIV and ends immediately after it. This will means that the loop will only affect that particular DIV. I have also set the post limit to "1", thereby restricting the display of posts to just the latest post.
Following on from there, you will notice that in the bottom-content DIV, I have included 3 different files for each column. These 3 files will be your custom post templates that you will need to create and have a post query to filter in the right post. An example of the custom post template will look something like this below:
FOLLOW.PHP
<?php query_posts('category_name=follow&showposts=1'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<h2><?php the_title();?></h2>
<?php the_post_thumbnail('bottom-content-thumb');?> <!--you will have to enable featured image thumbs in your functions.php file before you can do this-->
<span class="read-more">Continue Reading</span> <!--there are other ways to do the read more link, but I'm just giving an example now so yeah-->
<?php endwhile;?>
The rest of the custom post templates for the bottom 3 columns should look something like the above. If there is any variation of style and all, you will probably have to shift things around and play around with the CSS.
I want to stress that this is not the one and only way to do what you hope to achieve, but rather, that it is one of the many. What I've suggested is only an example that hopes to provide some insights on how you can utilize Custom Post templates for developing Wordpress based sites.
My advice at the end of the day is to delve deeper into Codex and find out more about Custom Post/Page templates because eventually, they will come in very handy if you choose to make custom Wordpress templates.
Hope my post had made things a little clearer for you =)