I'm currently migrating my HTML website into a WordPress theme.
My current HTML website makes full use of jQuery's .load() function, by where I change the content of the page (via a DIV), using .load() based on my side menu options selected by the user.
For example:
HTML Code:
<div id="sidebar">
<ul id="themenu" class="sf-menu sf-vertical">
<li>Home</li>
<li>About Us</li>
</ul>
</div>
jQuery Code:
$("#themenu li a, #subcat li a").click(function(){
var toLoadCF = $(this).attr("href")+" #contentfooter";
$('#contentfooter').fadeIn("slow",loadContent);
function loadContent() {
$("#contentfooter").load(toLoadCF);
}
return false;
});
So using this as an HTML situation, the user clicks on the "About Us" menu option, which would basically in turn load the "about-us.html" file based on a href tag for About Us.
Now in the WordPress world, I have created a custom page template for About Us called "about-us.php" that is linked to a WP Admin dashboard page called "aboutus" (permalink), so my a href value is "url/aboutus/"
Based on this, how can I achieve the same result in WordPress to emulate my HTML coding using jQuery .load?
Please be aware that I have added all the necessary info in my header.php, index.php and sidebar.php files.
I'm just unsure how to reference the a href file, so that my about-us.php file is loaded using jQuery's .load().
I'm not too sure how to approach this from a WordPress perspective.
First off I'd go about making the site fully functional WITHOUT the javascript loading. This'll get your navigation and site layout proper before you get fancy and will also provide a fallback for crawlers and for when your JS breaks.
Next, make a subset of templates, or modify your existing templates, to react to a GET var in the URL to exclude everything but the main content area of the template. For the Ajax load you won't need things like the header, foot and sidebar.
Then I'd use jQuery to grab navigation links click events, modify the request URI to put a GET var in, and then make the request using .load().
A side benefit of this is when you turn on caching (yes, you want to run your site with caching, its wordpress, its far from "light") your Ajax requested pages will also be cached for tighter load times and less resource usage.
I assume since you've done it before that you know how to handle the jQuery action binding, request and response parsing.
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My friends, I designed a WordPress plugin that I put in shortcode inside a blank page and it does the specified process, but my problem is that it does not follow the raw style that I designed and uses more than the default style of the WordPress theme. To solve this problem, I also used wp_head and wp_footer as templates, which solves the main problem, but there is another problem that due to its use, the main wp_enque header is not loaded in this case, and the styles and wp_localize are for ajax is used. They are not loaded after that. Styles and scripts can be added to the page manually, but wp_localize, which is for ajax transfers and handling, does not work this way.
Would you like a way to use wp_localize on a specific page without a default style?
<?php
/* Template Name: mypage*/
get_header('myheader');
echo do_shortcode("[LiteSpec id=man]");
get_footer('myfooter');
?>
Here is my problem, I have an iframe of a wordpress page (with stripped header/fooder/sidebar) with lots of links and I want when the user clicks on the links for them to open on the parent window and not the iframe.
I know I can use:
<a target="_parent" href="http://url.org">link</a>
on the links, but since the links point to wordpress posts and the list of posts is updated dynamically, this isn't a very good option. I can't edit them one-by-one to add the target. Plus, it might interfere with the rest of the site's links.
Another option is to use
<base target="_parent">
on the iframe header but I don't know how to do that.
Suppose I have this code to add the iframe:
<iframe class="bg-dark3" style="border: none;" src="https://www.google.com" scrolling="no"></iframe>
Where and how can I add the <base target="_parent"> line?
You can add this to your Wordpress site. It's Jquery to open the links in the parent. So please make sure Jquery library is loaded.
$('a').click(function(){
//Get url from anchor
var link = $(this).attr('href');
//Open url in parent
window.parent.parent.window.location = link;
});
This will automatically open the links in the parent, you wouldn't need to add target=_parent to each link manually.
I'm currently in the process of updating a website so that it supports Wordpress Blocks (5.0+) via Advanced Custom Fields. I have a block which needs some JS and was wondering if there is a way to implement a JS callback either via acf_register_block() or register_block_type() so that a JS function is called when the block is added to a page in the CMS?
For anyone else looking, the easiest way so far would be to call the existing JS function for your block from within the block render template itself, however it should only call the function if the admin page is showing (so that it doesn't show inline scripts on the front end).
eg.
function slider_block_html(){
//html output here
if(is_admin()){
echo "<script>sliderInit();</script>";
};
}
I use my custom block for displaying a flash game at the front page of my Drupal 7 installation, but there is also the annoying message:
<div id="first-time"><p>No front page content has been created yet.</p>
<div class="item-list"><ul><li class="first last">
Add new content</li>
</ul></div></div>
below it and I can't remove it. Is there please a hook for adding custom CSS? In my module I would like to make the #first-time light grey or invisible.
I prefer not to add a blank content just to get rid of that text.
Thank you!
Alex
UPDATE:
I've added the following to my module:
function game_init() {
drupal_set_message('XXX init called XXX');
if (drupal_is_front_page()) {
drupal_add_css('#first-time {color: green;}', 'inline');
}
}
but don't see that CSS-code or XXX string inside my front page.
UPDATE2:
Oh, I had to clear the cache and now it works (the Drupal docs seem to be wrong here - there was written that 'inline' CSS is not cached...)
Hiding the CSS is the WRONG way of doing it. why did you created your content as a Custom Block?
you should create a "Page" and set this page as front page in the Configuration->Site Information.
Whatever. you can also use any of these options but is not recommended.
you can also also add a BlankPage by Adding only the Title(then hiding it in PHP on page.tpl.php)
you can add your css in /templates/themes/bartik.info
you can call drupal_add_css on the _init() hook of your custom module.
Blocks are used to display information in every page(although we can set to display only on certain pages). Say For Example. A Menu, or A Shopping Cart etc.
If you want to add some CSS for a module, you should use drupal_add_css()
Why not simply add this CSS to your theme?
I have a drupal website. I want to generate an Iframe with content from my drupal site, that other sites can embed.
How I think this can be achieved:
Method 1: Create a php script that is autonomous from the drupal engine.
Import the configuration file and hence gain access to the database. Generate the content as a standalone webpage. Distribute the url of this script as the iframe's source url.
Problems: cannot provide drupal functionality within the iframe such as interaction with logged in user.
Method 2: Create the iframe from within drupal.
Create a new module that defines a menu entry using hoom_menu (the url for the iframe). Define the content of the iframe from the callback function of the menu entry. Then Somehow assign a custom page.tpl.php theme for the desired iframe url so that only the content of the iframe is rendered without all the other page elements (blocks, menus, footer, etc.).
Any comments especially for method 2 will be greatly appreciated! :)
I have done exactly this, just this week!
I created a custom module that outputs only the content that I want (using hook_menu()). Then I created a page template (page-mycustommodule.tpl.php) that only has
<?php print $content; ?>
within the <body> tags.
That was basically all. To find out the name that your page template needs to have, use the devel and theme_devel modules, then just click on your page and it will tell you which templates it looked for.
One thing to look out for: any links in the iframe will only change the contents OF THAT FRAME, so when your module creates links, use the proper target to make the parent page jump to the new URL:
l('link text',
'node/' . $mynode->nid,
array('attributes' => array('target' => '_parent')));
I found the answer by Graham very useful. Unfortunately I don't have enough reputation on this site to add a comment so I will have to put my comment in an answer.
5 years on, the information has changed slightly:
The module theme_devel now seems to be called devel_themer instead.
In D7, the template naming pattern is slightly different with 2
hyphens: page--[front|internal/path].tpl.php (see docs)
D7 templates are slightly different based on render arrays, so the template will need to be something like print render($page['content']);
method 3
you can use this module https://www.drupal.org/project/entity_iframe that allows you to create IFRAME READY webpages
install it and go to the display settings of you content type that you want to use as iframe content admin/structure/types/manage/CONTENTTYPE/display
choose the IFRAME view mode and choose the fields you would like to be shown
and then use url like this domain.com/entity_iframe/node/NID and you will have a display with no extra headers footers etc ...
By default a sample EMBED/IFRAME code is provided to the admin under each node the settings
<iframe width="100%" height="300" src="domain.com/entity_iframe/node/96" frameborder="0" class="entity_iframe entity_iframe_node" id="entity_iframe_node_96" allowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true"></iframe>
The settings in admin/config/system/entity_iframe control some of the details of the embed code
For complete control of the theme used you can use in combination with https://www.drupal.org/project/entity_iframe_theme
What do you exactly need to iframe?
A node? A block? Should it be static or dynamic?
You can simply create a node with a php filter and generate the iframe output.
Then you can put this output between <pre> tags to display it as code that users can copy/paste in their site.