Is it possible to create small blocks of editable content on certain pages of a wordpress install?
I am thinking along the lines of little boxes that contain specific information that can be edited through the admin dashboard.
I'm sure it's possible, but you'd probably have to look in to the WordPress plugin API to hook in to the proper places and save it to the DB. Also check out jQuery's inlne editor plugin.
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I need a WordPress plugin that will let me hide a bunch of content until a user clicks on a Read More link.
Sounds easy, but here's the twist:
I need to hide both text and images
The content is set up in separate WP Bakery blocks
All the plugins I found so far only work within a single block, they can't hide multiple blocks.
I'm a designer, not a developer, so I'm sure I'm missing something. Is there a reason this can't exist?
Please halp! I really don't want to redo the content.
I talk in pictures better than in words, so here's an illustration of what I mean
I'm very new to WordPress (tbh, it's my first time working with it). And I need to make a website as my school project using CMS. Creating pages with templates is alright, but I have a lot of troubles with buttons. I found this website, and I can see it using WordPress. I need such buttons as on this page https://movie-chooser.co.ua/random-movie-2/ (they appear when you hover over the image). Is this a default option for buttons in WordPress? If not, is there a plugin for this or what is the way to add them on my images?
First Install Elementor plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
and go to page when you add button and open page with elementor
and do drag and drop any element like button, space, text editor etc.
You have several ways to achieve that:
Overwritting Wordpress CSS
Using a plugin
Create your own shortcode
1 - Overwriting Wordpress CSS
If you manage to display all the elements using wordpress template, and your only issue is to display buttons over the images, then it should only be a matter of CSS
2 - Using a plugin
The idea here is to find a plugin that help you to create/display the informations you need (maybe you'll need to add functionnality to basic post though custom fields or using a custom post type).
Once you find the right plugin, again if the plugin dosen't directly offert some settings on the design then you'll have to overwrite the plugin's CSS rules to display the elements as you want.
3 - Create your own shortcode
If you're new to Wordpress I wouldn't recommend this method as it is kind of advanced, unless you're comfortable with PHP/HTML/CSS (optionaly JS).
This is the more flexible solution as you can basically control anything, but it will require you to understand some core concepts of Wordpress like WP Query and how custom queries works.
The idea here is to create a shortcode.
THis shortcode refere to a custom made PHP function, in which you can create a custom request to fetch the informations you need to display from Wordpress database, and display it in an HTML structure that you decide.
THen angain, you'll just have to customize it though CSS.
Note : no need to create a whole plugin if you decide to create a shortcode, you can use the template functions.php file for that.
I am trying to implement a simple one page -no blog- WordPress theme using a bootstrap template. I have an aside with three social links -facebook, twitter, Instagram- in the header.
I want to be able to make it so not only are these able to put truned on or off in by the user through the wp admin dashboard, but also the links to those sites able to be put in through said dashboard.
I am using udnerscores as a starter theme. How do I go about doing what I am looking to do?
This can be achieved using the Customizer API. That would be my recommendation. There is a lot of really good documentation on how to use that here. It also includes a whole bunch of sample code. Give that a look.
I'm developing a theme for wordpress and would like to know the best way to show highlights on the home page.
Examples:
I thought two ways:
Custom post types -a custom post "highlight" with metabox for image, text and link.
Theme Options - a page with options for each box.
What is the right way?
Neither. What you want can be achieved using either Wordpress' core functions and/or Custom Fields. Consider using Custom Meta Boxes if you have a client that requires a more intuitive setup, or installing something like the Types Plugin to do it for you.
This will allow you to attach your own variables to given Posts/Pages.
To gain access to a post's Custom Fields, click the Screen Options button at the top of the Post Editor to enable Custom Fields.
Personally, I would Enable Support for Thumbnails for your Highlights image, use The Excerpt for your Highlight copy, and use either The Title or a Custom Field for the heading.
This way, you can keep all your eggs in one basket rather than overcomplicating things with Custom Post Types or Theme Options Pages.
Look at the Plugin "Ether Content Builder"
You could use either of the methods you've suggested. In my opinion getting involved with lots of meta boxes on one specific page template for this is a total waste of time - there is only an image, a header and an excerpt linking to a post/page. Three posts (whether custom or not) will handle that with featured image, excerpt and the page/post title.
I also think doing a Custom Post type is too much just for three posts on the homepage. If you go the posts route just create a new post category called Home Highlights and put your three posts in there, pull them in via a custom loop built on WP_Query.
Yes you can go the Theme Options route too. If it's the client updating the site then it can look quite professional this way, I've started using a plugin called Options Tree after it came integrated with Super Skeleton, it makes it very easy to build your custom theme options which work just as well too.
A matter of opinion really, rather than a hard and fast 'this one is definitely better'!
Is it possible to create an image gallery in wordpress that is managed by the admin via it's own page / panel. I am not talking about creating a new post and adding custom html for each image. I mean actually having a page in the admin that has the ability to upload and manage your images?
If it is possible how do you go about creating a custom page like this? I understand the PHP side of uploading and manipulating images, but I don't know how to integrate it with wordpress. I don't need a full blow tutorial on how to do this, but if you could just point me in the right direction that would be great.
One issue that comes to mind right away, is if this is possible would upgrading wordpress break the code? Since I assume you have to edit the admin files directly and you can't just do it from your own custom template?
From playing around I found NextGEN Gallery (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/) that has a tab in your admin panel. It looks like it would meet your needs.
You can manage all your media from the WordPress Media Library using tags if you install Tag Gallery
It requires the Media Tags plugin but it makes managing galleries so much easier and your using the built in media facilities of WordPress so it's not disjoint from the experience. There is a new version in the works that will offer much more impressive functionality as well.
Hope that helps.
There are a huge amount of image galleries for wordpress already made. Have a quick google for some (search "wordpress image gallery") and see if any of them are suitable (I'll be surprised if one of them isn't).
Failing that, you'll need to create yourself a Wordpress Plugin.
I've integrated ZenPhoto into my wordpress blog. It was pretty easy, would probably take you a few hours. The admin pages are completely separate from the wordpress admin pages, so you can easily give access to only one person.
You can create a custom post type called Gallery to manage create and manage image galleries. The post will have its own "Gallery" panel in the admin section and from there you can add new galleries just as you describe. There are lost of tutorials for creating gallery custom post types.