Coming from a Joomla background one of the fist things I realised is that Wordpress 3 doesn't have native support for controlling the visibility of widgets (modules in Joomla).
I've tried:
Dynamic widgets - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dynamic-widgets/screenshots/ but it seems to break the admin menus.
Also tried Widget context - but it doesn't display correctly and doesn't allow granularity on the page visibility level.
Can anybody recommend a solution?
Try Widget Logic -- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/
Hope this helps!
-æ.
You can use Display Widgets. It adds checkboxes to each widget to either show or hide it on every site page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-widgets/screenshots/
Make sure to disable other similar plugins to avoid conflict.
Example from sidebar.php:
<div class="sidebar-box border-radius-6px">
<h2>Dream Categories</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_categories('title_li='); ?>
</ul>
</div><!-- Sidebar Box End -->
Lets say you want to display this only on a page called "about-us". use is_page() function provided by wordpress.
<?php if(is_page('about-us')) { ?>
<div class="sidebar-box border-radius-6px">
<h2>Dream Categories</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_categories('title_li='); ?>
</ul>
</div><!-- Sidebar Box End -->
<?php } ?>
And as for the user level:
<?php if(current_user_can('level_10')) { // Level 10 = Administrator ?>
<div class="sidebar-box border-radius-6px">
<h2>Dream Categories</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_categories('title_li='); ?>
</ul>
</div><!-- Sidebar Box End -->
<?php } ?>
Please see Wordpress User Levels
PS: I saw the plugin provided by aendrew and I had a look at it.
Try this:
Make a backup of widget_login.php file then open it, search for line 75 and replace it with update_option("widget_logic", "is_page('" . $wl_options . "')"); This should easy up the stuff a little, when you limit a widget you have to add is_page('bla-bla') in that input that line should only require bla-bla (If the page is called Bla Bla) [not tested, but you can give it a try.]
Try this:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/conditional-widgets/
Really user friendly, hope it helps
For anyone still looking for a plugin for this purpose, check out my plugin Widget Visibility.
It's user friendly (uses checkboxes) and works inside the WordPress customizer too.
Related
In my WordPress theme I included the following in the header.php for the menu:
<li>About Us</li>
<li>Contact</li>
However when I include the following code in the about us template:
<?php /* Template Name: About Us */ ?>
<?php $about = "active"; ?>
<?php get_header() ?>
The tab doesn't become "active", though if I include the code snippet $about = "active"; in the header.php file it works. Why is this? Is there an easier way to do this?
This probably has to do with the fact that the get_header() function isn't aware of the $about variable. This has to do with the PHP variable scope.
The way I solved this is by using the Wordpress API to generate a menu. This way, each page will automatically detect if it's the 'active' page and add that class to its relevant menu item.
I'd also suggest you to make your menu dynamic using wp_nav_menu(). However if you do not wish to use wp_nav_menu(), you could also make the menu items active using the page id in header.php
i added this in my Drupal theme:
<div id="sidebar">
<?php print $sidebar; ?>
</div>
Additionally I added this in the .info file:
regions[sidebar] = Sidebar
I then created a new block with "Add block" in the admin panel and assigned the created Block to the sidebar. Unfortunately everything i wrote in the block body is not saved and therefore the sidebar does not show any contents. If I update the block body and click on save and go into edit mode to have a look, the block body is empty.
Anybody knows why this happens and how i can solve this?
Thanks.
If this is in your page.tpl.php, you should be using $page['sidebar'] rather than just $sidebar. You also have to call render() on the region. Lastly, it's a good idea to check if it's defined first. For instance:
<?php if($page['sidebar']): ?>
<div id="sidebar">
<?php print render($page['sidebar']) ?>
</div>
<?php endif ?>
Don't forget to clear the cache after adding a new region as well.
See the Bartik theme's page.tpl.php for a more complete example: http://cgit.drupalcode.org/bartik/tree/templates/page.tpl.php.
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 have graphical project of three-column Drupal front page which has first column for one piece of custom content and two other colums designed for most recent news (one content type) as it is shown on image below:
I am quite new to Drupal and so far I created my own page.front.tpl.php in my PHPTemplate theme with regions like header, footer, menu, search_box etc and content of course. Now I have problem with $content region, in which there should be columns as I described above. My question is: How do I style them (CSS? somewhere in Drupal's admin? use separate blocks? Some module?) to look like in project?
page.front.tpl.php fragment:
<?php if ($content): ?><div class="content-middle"><?php print $content; ?></div><?php endif; ?>
Output simplified HTML structure (so far only two most recent news), I want to style this somehow:
<div class="content-middle">
<div class="node">
<h2 class="title">
<div class="content">
<div class="node">
<h2 class="title">
<div class="content">
You can create 3 new sections in your theme. Modify your .info file (for example MyThemeName.info) and write the following :
regions[content_center_left] = Left Sidebar
regions[content_center_middle] = Middle Sidebar
regions[content_center_right] = Right Sidebar
The next step is to modify your page.tpl.php or if you want these sections to be available only in front page you can modify page-front.tpl.php. Write the following where you want the sections to be displayed:
<?php if ($content_center_left): ?>
<div class="content-left">
<?php print $content_center_left?>
</div><!-- /content_center_left -->
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if ($content_center_middle): ?>
<div class="content-middle">
<?php print $content_center_middle?>
</div><!-- /content_center_middle -->
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if ($content_center_right): ?>
<div class="content-right">
<?php print $content_center_right?>
</div><!-- /content_center_right -->
<?php endif; ?>
Now you can create your views (as blocks) and display them in these sections.
I recommend using the Panels module.
From the project page:
The Panels module allows a site administrator to create customized
layouts for multiple uses. At its core it is a drag and drop content
manager that lets you visually design a layout and place content
within that layout. Integration with other systems allows you to
create nodes that use this, landing pages that use this, and even
override system pages such as taxonomy and the node page so that you
can customize the layout of your site with very fine grained
permissions.
Agreed with Laxman 13 , Panels is definitely the way to go, you could double it with the Views module , which would allow you to retrieve the most recent news or whatever query you may have for you content display.
Just playing around with Wordpress 3.0 for the first time. I've installed the Custom Post Type UI plugin, and have created a custom post type: "composers".
How do I go about creating a navigation menu for all the composers? Ideally, I'd like a static page entitled 'composers' which has a nav menu of all the individual composers.
In the Appearance -> Menus page, I can create a menu and assign composers individually to it, but what do I need to do to just add the entire collection of composers to a menu, so that it updates when I add a new composer? Surely I don't have to add them all manually?
What you're trying to do might be better achieved as a plugin, or a little editing in your theme file, something along the lines of;
$composers = new WP_Query('post_type=composers');
if ($composers->have_posts():
?>
<ul class="composer-nav">
<?php while ($composers->have_posts()): $composers->the_post(); ?>
<li>
<?php the_title(); ?>
</li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>
I know the idea behind custom menus was to try and avoid the need for plugins or theme editing, but I think it was truly designed for users to be able to pick and choose exactly what they wanted, rather than automatically listing items (just my opinion).