ThemeShaper Forums Topic: Need to add custom field data into page content area

ThemeShaper Forums Topic: Need to add custom field data into page content area http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Mon, 20 May 2013 14:24:28 +0000 elshaddai on "Need to add custom field data into page content area" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/need-to-add-custom-field-data-into-page-content-area#post-5483 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:45:11 +0000 elshaddai 5483@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ > Sorry .. you need to copy the page.php to your child theme's directory and edit it there. Yep - that's what I had been doing - I just couldn't get the custom data into the_content()... @amygail - we didn't need random quote behavior, so I've settled on using the plugin, "Simple Pull Quote", which does almost exactly what I needed. I just added some CSS for the cite tag and my client has agreed to be careful with editing around the shortcodes... amygail on "Need to add custom field data into page content area" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/need-to-add-custom-field-data-into-page-content-area#post-5475 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:35:10 +0000 amygail 5475@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ I do something sort of like this with a custom page template. I wouldn't have a clue how to insert it into the middle of the content though... (I'd try to float in in there with css) Would using a plugin ( I use and like <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stray-quotes/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stray-quotes/</a>) that would allows you to insert a shortcode into the post content still leave too much room for trouble? Chris on "Need to add custom field data into page content area" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/need-to-add-custom-field-data-into-page-content-area#post-5470 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:38:43 +0000 Chris 5470@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Will look through the other pages and add a similar scheme to page.php and the rest which might be missing. Chris Chris on "Need to add custom field data into page content area" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/need-to-add-custom-field-data-into-page-content-area#post-5469 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:31:01 +0000 Chris 5469@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Sorry .. you need to copy the page.php to your child theme's directory and edit it there. Chris amygail on "Need to add custom field data into page content area" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/need-to-add-custom-field-data-into-page-content-area#post-5455 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:05:40 +0000 amygail 5455@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ This post may be helpful (?) <a href="http://themeshaper.com/action-hooks-wordpress-child-themes/" rel="nofollow">http://themeshaper.com/action-hooks-wordpress-child-themes/</a> The first example shows a function with a php statement elshaddai on "Need to add custom field data into page content area" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/need-to-add-custom-field-data-into-page-content-area#post-5453 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:34:52 +0000 elshaddai 5453@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Thanks, Chris. The filter works overall in terms of adding something to the_content, though doing a straight replace of My Content with my <div> code doesn't produce the right results. I'll have to figure out how to get those php statements to work in the functions file. Chris on "Need to add custom field data into page content area" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/need-to-add-custom-field-data-into-page-content-area#post-5449 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:56:56 +0000 Chris 5449@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Hi, this should be something like: <pre><code>function my_content($content) { $content .= 'My Content'; return $content; } add_filter('the_content', 'my_content');</code></pre> 'My Content' would be your code. This is the general way to add something to the_content. Don't know if the final result will work for you. Chris elshaddai on "Need to add custom field data into page content area" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/need-to-add-custom-field-data-into-page-content-area#post-5434 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:58:52 +0000 elshaddai 5434@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ I'm looking for a way to add some text to a single page's main content area via custom fields. Basically, I want to show a pull quote to the side of a page's content. I would like to use custom fields as my client has a habit of being a little too aggressive in their WYSIWYG editing of the content area. I can't help that, but if I can prevent them from killing the pull quotes by putting the data in custom fields, I'd like to. Similarly, I realize that there are pull quote plugins and will use one of those if this doesn't work, but I'd like to explore my approach if possible. I have successfully created the custom fields and can display them directly following the content area ('<?php the_content() ?>') by manually putting the appropriate code in the template php file: '<div id="feature-quote"> <?php $key1="feature-quote"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key1, true); ?> <div id="feature-quote-cite"> <?php $key2="feature-quote-cite"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key2, true); ?> </div> </div>' However, I've not been able to figure out how to filter this block of content into the_content(). Ideally, I'll be floating it on the right side of the content, about halfway between the top and bottom of the content.