ThemeShaper Forums Topic: Posts inside the Pages and subpages

ThemeShaper Forums Topic: Posts inside the Pages and subpages http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:50:42 +0000 amoore on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-18375 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:24:00 +0000 amoore 18375@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Thanks for this great (even when dated) thread! Did Saski's question get answered somewhere? I've got the rest working but would also love this answer: "I am tryng to insert the page content before the category loop, to use that as introduction or a customizable intro area Can you give me a clue on how to edit it to display the page content above the category loop?" Thanks! Mickstah on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-14200 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:28:40 +0000 Mickstah 14200@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ My apologies, disregard the above, turns out I had set my Reading Settings post page to the same page I was attempting to apply the template to. Of course the Reading Settings were overriding the custom fields thus returning all my posts instead of the select category. Let this be a simple lesson to others. Thank you again for this code, it works perfectly when you don't have a monkey like me operating it! Mickstah on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-14199 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:12:43 +0000 Mickstah 14199@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Sorry to bump an old thread guys but this is an excellent one! I love thematic however I've always had trouble showing a single category of posts on a page. The Custom Fields solution that Chris provided is brilliant however I'm having trouble getting it to filter the categories. I can apply the template and get the custom fields showing without any issue, but when I input the category id (in this case: 3) I still get the other category posts showing. I have permalinks active so I've tried various combinations of slugs, page IDs and even post IDs but still no change. Please note I am using Wordpress 3 - is it possible that this is causing the problem? Is it possible that Wordpress 3 has superseded this solution and I wasn't aware of it? em hr on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-10135 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:56:10 +0000 em hr 10135@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ H trexr & raul, About the missing images, you need to filter thematic_content so that it shows full posts not excerpts for archives. Look back to the part of this conversation with Gary and try this code. <pre><code>function child_archive_content($content) { if (is_archive()) $content ="full"; return $content; } add_filter('thematic_content', 'child_archive_content');</code></pre> -Gene raul on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-9631 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:52:11 +0000 raul 9631@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Not sure if any of you are still workin on this thread since its been a few months now. But yeah, I got the same missing photo thing happening. Everything works from Chris' code. Took me a couple of hours to follow this whole conversation. And another question, how do I get the new page posts to NOT appear on the main page? The posts seem to double up, one on the main blog page and then the same one is on the new "Category Query Page". Other than that everything works hunkydory. Setting up the blog posts to the new CATEGORY works fine. Thanks if any of you get to helping me with this. trexr on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-8276 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:47:28 +0000 trexr 8276@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ @em hr using your first response in this thread, for some reason inserted images do not appear in the page even though they appear in standard loop posting. Did any one else have this problem? any suggestions? Thanks so much! em hr on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-8243 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:25:16 +0000 em hr 8243@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ I heart this discussion... @ saski Sorry, I've been really busy. I'll be back to this soon. saski on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-8135 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:41:24 +0000 saski 8135@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Hi em hr Thanks for this great solution. I am tryng to insert the page content before the category loop, to use that as introduction or a customizable intro area Can you give me a clue on how to edit it to display the page content above the category loop? thanks a lot! dylancoyne on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-7862 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:45:30 +0000 dylancoyne 7862@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Gene - Thanks, that works for me now. I tried that filter earlier but I didn't see the post about making excerpt 'full' i.e. declaring $content ="full"; em hr on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-7859 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:40:06 +0000 em hr 7859@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ @ lqunta - On review, I think my answers to your questions in the other thread may serve you better than using this method. @ dylancoyne- Since <code>$wp_query->is_archive = true</code> the function <code>thematic_content()</code> inside <code>thematic_index_loop</code> outputs an excerpt. If you want the full content then filter <code>thematic_content()</code> like in my response to Gary above. -Gene dylancoyne on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-7858 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:46:10 +0000 dylancoyne 7858@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Hi Chris & em hr, Thanks for the solution of the new meta-boxes on the first page of this thread. It's working for me but when the posts output to my specific pages they are excerpted i.e.truncated. How do I change the code to allow the full post to come through for the page loop? I am guessing its this bit that I need to change not the laying out the custom fields. function child_theme_custom_query() { global $post; if (get_post_meta($post->ID, 'page_query_posts', true)) { $limit = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'limit', true); $category = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'category',true); $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts('cat=' .$category. '&showposts=' . $limit . '&paged=' . $paged ); $wp_query->is_archive = true; $wp_query->is_home = false; } } add_action('thematic_above_indexloop', 'child_theme_custom_query'); Thanks in advance D lqunta on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-7519 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:06:32 +0000 lqunta 7519@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Hi Gene, Thanks for proposing to have a go at the code. Will surely want to see how you'll implement this. Cheers LQunta [bn offline for some days] em hr on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-7401 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:54:16 +0000 em hr 7401@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ lqunta- No worries. We're all learning around here. I'll work on this and get back with some code later on today. I'll try and take into to account the setup you described in <a href="http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/full-post-and-then-excerpts-on-category-pages?replies=9#post-7400">another thread</a>. <blockquote>- Categories [e.g. My Articles], which have Sub-Categories [e.g. Fictional Stories, Poems, Tips] - As such, I would like, when one clicks on a category, e.g. Fictional Stories, he/ she should, first of all, read about the category [category description], then, a listing of the current category's content as mentioned above, limited to x number of articles</blockquote> -Gene lqunta on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-7393 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:00:04 +0000 lqunta 7393@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Well, Gene, Thanks for your prompt response to my query and clarifying what is possible, and what is not. Pardon me if I sound rather 'green', but, how can I incorporate the desired layout [i.e. Thumbnail[floated left] - we can ignore this for now, The Content[i.e. Post Title, Post Category, Post Excerpt] floated right]? I have my desired layout ready - for the post excerpts] as thus: <code> <div id="post_list">  <div id="post_content"> <h2>Post Title Here</h2> Post Category Post Excerpt </div> </div> </code> I'll have to consent that my knowledge in coding [php] is limited at best. Yet again, pardon me for sounding rather 'daft' LQunta [learning by doing] em hr on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-7380 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:07:49 +0000 em hr 7380@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ lqunta- 1. All of the code up to and including Chris's works great. After that I was having some learning curve issues with what I was trying. I've gotten it sorted out now. I may return to this discussion with my solutions sometime if there is continued interest. 2. To use those code examples all pages that you want to aggregate posts need to be assigned the one custom template created in the example above. 3. Yes. Very possible. As for the thumbnail bit I'd suggest maybe waiting for WP 2.9 soon to be beta. Instead of the usual custom field approach to thumbnail images 2.9 will introduce the template tag the_post_image() and set the image will be done from the admin. - Gene lqunta on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-7373 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:50:56 +0000 lqunta 7373@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Greetings Guys @Chris, @Gene I've been going through your code suggestions above, and, seem to be lost at the point where Gene is talking about multi-dimensional arrays. Being quite 'green' in all this, pardon me to ask, -Which is the code that works perfectly [i.e., where one can edit from within WPadmin]? -For each page, where one wants to display posts from a corresponding [similarly named] category...should one have to create the .php page template? -Is it possible to have the generated pages in the following manner : Thumbnail[floated left], The Content[i.e. Post Title, Post Category, Post Excerpt] floated right]? Thanks all for the great work you're doing in the forums [in just a matter of hours, I've managed to move ahead by leaps and bounds]. Cheers LQunta em hr on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-7197 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:26:22 +0000 em hr 7197@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ A heads up for anyone using a custom query loop as described in this thread. It my be necessary to reset the query with <code><?php wp_reset_query() ?></code> after the loop is complete in order to make <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags">condtional tags</a> work properly or to pull custom fields from the original page's post meta. em hr on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-7193 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:55:55 +0000 em hr 7193@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Promising improvements on this method of meta boxing here: <a href="http://wefunction.com/2009/10/revisited-creating-custom-write-panels-in-wordpress/" rel="nofollow">http://wefunction.com/2009/10/revisited-creating-custom-write-panels-in-wordpress/</a> garycr5 on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-7146 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:31:38 +0000 garycr5 7146@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Gene - stuck that in my functions.php and it's working perfectly. garycr5 on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-7145 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:21:10 +0000 garycr5 7145@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Gene - oh no problem at all :) I appreciate this so much, I'll give it a try. This goes in my functions.php as well, yes? em hr on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-7135 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:40:18 +0000 em hr 7135@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ @Gary- I am am a total fool for not reading properly... change "excerpt" to "full" in my code. @Chris - No worries. I like the idea of the plugin approach. It'd be easier to keep the code up to date that way. Chris on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-7131 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:26:00 +0000 Chris 7131@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Hi Gene, sorry, but my last days were too fast-paced to get my brain free to solve this multi-dimensional array problem. I already thought about integrating this meta-box functionality. Currently I'm looking for the best way to outsource a couple of things into external modules. These could be loaded into the child themes as needed. This could be controlled using the child theme's functions.php or using the upcoming configuration / management plugin. Chris em hr on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-7126 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:42:20 +0000 em hr 7126@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Chris- I finally came back to "my different approach" and got it sorted out. Flipping multidimensional arrays always get the best of me. I may eventually get around to looking at a more straight forward and compartmental way similar to Hybrid's meta-box.php. Thanks for all your help with this- Gene em hr on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-7116 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:39:27 +0000 em hr 7116@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Gary- try: <pre><code>function child_archive_content($content) { if (is_archive()) $content ="excerpt"; return $content; } add_filter('thematic_content', 'child_archive_content');</code></pre> -Gene garycr5 on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-7098 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:58:29 +0000 garycr5 7098@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Gene - Thank you thank you so much for your help here with the category query page template. I've been going through all kinds of possible solutions on the WP forums trying to find one I understand and yours is great. I put your original piece of code into my functions.php <pre><code>function child_theme_custom_query() { if (is_page('48')) { // change '48' to the id # of your page $limit = get_option('posts_per_page'); $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; //change '4' to you category id # and change the value of $limit to the # of posts you want displayed per page query_posts('cat=4' . '&showposts=' . $limit=2 . '&paged=' . $paged ); $wp_query->is_archive = true; $wp_query->is_home = false; } } add_action('thematic_above_indexloop', 'child_theme_custom_query');</code></pre> The one problem is that the page that I've applied this category query to comes up with only excerpts of the posts rather than fully displayed posts. Here's the page: <a href="http://garycrofts.com/test/mynews/">http://garycrofts.com/test/mynews/</a>. Do you have any suggestions for how to display the full post? Thank you for all the help you've already given, Gary em hr on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages/page/2#post-6997 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:01:59 +0000 em hr 6997@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ As for the nonce location: Is either of these better or does it matter? <pre><code>echo'<select name="'.$meta_box_name.'_noncename" id="'.$meta_box_name.'_noncename" >';</code></pre> or <pre><code>echo'<input type="hidden" name="'.$meta_box_name.'_noncename" id="'.$meta_box_name.'_noncename" value="'.wp_create_nonce( plugin_basename(__FILE__) ).'" />';</code></pre> em hr on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages#post-6996 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:58:09 +0000 em hr 6996@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Yeah I should'nt have opened the selct in side the last loop. But I'm still not sure where is the best place to put the nonce and why the hell it wont save to the customfield. Thanks for looking into it. <pre><code>function layout_area() { global $post, $new_meta_areas; $meta_area = $new_meta_areas['layout_area']; foreach($meta_area['meta_boxes'] as $meta_box_name => $meta_box_option){ echo'<input type="hidden" name="'.$meta_box_name.'_noncename" id="'.$meta_box_name.'_noncename" value="'.wp_create_nonce( plugin_basename(__FILE__) ).'" />'; echo'<select name="'.$meta_box_name.'">'; foreach($meta_box_option['options'] as $option_type => $option_value ) { echo'<option'; if ( get_post_meta($post->ID, $meta_box_name, true) == $option_value ) { echo ' selected="selected"'; } elseif ( $option_value == $option_type['std'] ) { echo ' selected="selected"'; } echo' value="' . $option_value . '">'. $option_type .'</option>'; } echo'</select>'; echo'<label for="'.$meta_box_name.'">'.$meta_box_option['description'].'</label> '; } }</code></pre> Chris on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages#post-6994 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:08:25 +0000 Chris 6994@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Hi Gene, I'm working on your code. layout_area() is a bit messed up. :) .. that's the reason why you have a ton drop-downs with only one list entry. Rest will follow. Chris noShitWFP on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages#post-6989 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:18:12 +0000 noShitWFP 6989@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Dear Chris (and Gene if you're keen), Thanks for the Category ID response...I seemed to have got it anyway, though be it via a different route. Though I do appreciate that I can now being certain:-P I got everything working nicely the other night thank you :-) Now that I have taken that step and seen what it looks like, I have been able to to refine my initial question. At the risk of going way overboard and asking too much, I wonder would you be up for a further refinement on the above code? (Before I continue I feel it appropriate to admit up-front that lazy minds annoy me; therefore I feel to apologise in advance for not taking the time to thoroughly learn PHP. My current and entire focus is getting my new business on its feet; I don't consider the few mods I require to warrant learning PHP at this point. Hence my reliance on fine folks like yourself, which I greatly appreciate :-) Ok, back to the code: I really like what the above code has done so far. But now that I've seen the outcome I wonder would you consider tweaking it to do the following: The outcome of the above code looks like this (i.e. Category view) - <a href="http://edits.nosh-it-wood-fired-pizza.com.au/nosh-it-edits-blog/;" rel="nofollow">http://edits.nosh-it-wood-fired-pizza.com.au/nosh-it-edits-blog/;</a> Is it possible to get it to present the post excerpts like this (Blog landing view) - <a href="http://edits.nosh-it-wood-fired-pizza.com.au/" rel="nofollow">http://edits.nosh-it-wood-fired-pizza.com.au/</a> , whilst still filtering and listing by Category? Many thanks for your consideration. Regards Stephen Glanville em hr on "Posts inside the Pages and subpages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/posts-inside-the-pages-and-subpages#post-6984 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:54:59 +0000 em hr 6984@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ No you shouldn't use the last bit I posted. It doesnt work properly and I'm tired of messing with it... maybe Chris will have some insight. I'm glad to hear you're studying php :) I noticed earlier that your site is a .br domain. Here is the only PHP resource that I use constantly and its localized in Brazilian Portuguese <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/pt_BR/getting-started.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.php.net/manual/pt_BR/getting-started.php</a> -Gene