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ThemeShaper Forums Topic: Trouble Adding Custom Bits Below Content on Homepage http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:15:06 +0000 nimrod on "Trouble Adding Custom Bits Below Content on Homepage" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/trouble-adding-custom-bits-below-content-on-homepage#post-12975 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:52:25 +0000 nimrod 12975@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Just noticed an odd success/failure: the following code in a blank test child theme for Thematic DOES show the custom content below the index loop.</p> <p>Only it's not on the home page I've set in WP Settings -> Reading -> Front Page drop menu. Rather, the custom content is being placed at the bottom of the loop on the News page which I've set for Posts.</p> <p>When I set the Reading config to Front page display your latest posts radio button, the custom content then shows on the home page.</p> <p>So, I would say that either is_home and/or theamtic_below_indexloop only targets the posts page (and not the static page that is set to be home). </p> <p>I suppose that makes sense since the static home page doesn't actually have a loop. Not sure what other hook to try though... </p> nimrod on "Trouble Adding Custom Bits Below Content on Homepage" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/trouble-adding-custom-bits-below-content-on-homepage#post-12956 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:41:53 +0000 nimrod 12956@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hmm, more strangeness: The home.php file (used to render the extra content widgets on the Home page) is affecting the blog or Posts page output.</p> <p>I'm simply using WordPress Settings -> Reading section to set the Home and Blog pages to Pages I've created (in this case I have a Page called "Home" set as the front page and a Page called "News" set for the Posts page).</p> <p>At first I noticed that three widgets showed up on the bottom of the News page with only the most recent post showing (none of the other posts appeared).</p> <p>I cleared out some extra code on the home.php file to stop that nonsense but noticed other parts are missing on the News page like Pagination. So I added the standard next and previous_posts_link hooks to the home.php file and pagination started working on the News page!</p> <p>I'm confused that a template file not selected for the News page would affect the News page. </p> <p>I assume this has to do with template hierarchy, but I know very little about it and what I glanced at online didn't help much. Any clues?</p> <p>Here goes all that extra time I always try to allot to these projects... </p> nimrod on "Trouble Adding Custom Bits Below Content on Homepage" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/trouble-adding-custom-bits-below-content-on-homepage#post-12955 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:29:13 +0000 nimrod 12955@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Ah, that content-extensions.php file is an excellent reference. Being new to Thematic, I didn't know it existed.</p> <p>Just tried <code>thematic_below_indexloop</code> without success.</p> <p>I wonder what the deal is since nothing seems to work near the loop on the home page. But, like I mentioned before, I can take the sample child theme folder from the Thematic theme folder and add just the one function with the various hooks mentioned above without success.</p> <p>I even tried activating the empty test theme and removing the theme I've been working on just to see if it somehow affects the system. Same problem of no content results. </p> em hr on "Trouble Adding Custom Bits Below Content on Homepage" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/trouble-adding-custom-bits-below-content-on-homepage#post-12886 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:50:37 +0000 em hr 12886@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Look in <code>thematic>library>content-extensions.php</code> for the list of action hooks that can be used with the content areas of thematic.</p> <p>There are lots of action hooks listed there that have not been updated on the bluemandala diagram.</p> <p> The source code is the one true diagram.</p> <p>Did you try the <code>thematic_below_indexloop</code> hook?</p> <p>-Gene </p> nimrod on "Trouble Adding Custom Bits Below Content on Homepage" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/trouble-adding-custom-bits-below-content-on-homepage#post-12879 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:15:23 +0000 nimrod 12879@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Unfortunately, since both the <strong>thematic_postfooter</strong> and <strong>thematic_belowcontent</strong> don't seem to function predictably (and no other way has been brought up), I was obliged to opt for the old-fashioned solution of creating a new home template file. </p> <p>It's messier and redundant and requires me to remember that it's there if I change the home page, but at least it works.</p> <p>FYI on what I did to make it work in Thematic: </p> <p>I decided to add a block of three more home widgets below the entry content on the home page.</p> <p>So I created a basic raw page.php file that matches Thematic and added the widget section just below the content hooks at the bottom of the entry-content div like so:</p> <pre><code><?php /* Template Name: Custom Home */ ?> <?php get_header(); ?> <div id="container"> <div id="content"> <?php the_post(); ?> <div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>> <h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1> <div class="entry-content"> <?php the_content(); ?> <?php wp_link_pages('before=<div class="page-link">' . __( 'Pages:', 'your-theme' ) . '&after=</div>') ?> <?php edit_post_link( __( 'Edit', 'your-theme' ), '<span class="edit-link">', '</span>' ) ?> <div id="home_widgets"> <div class="wrapper"> <?php if(function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')): ?> <div class="hr">_______</div> <div class="home_i"> <?php if(dynamic_sidebar('Home I')) :else: ?><? endif; ?> </div> <div class="hr">_______</div> <div class="home_ii"> <?php if(dynamic_sidebar('Home II')) :else: ?><? endif; ?> </div> <div class="hr">_______</div> <div class="home_iii"> <?php if(dynamic_sidebar('Home III')) :else: ?><? endif; ?> </div> </div> <?php endif; ?> </div> </div><!– .entry-content –> </div><!– #post-<?php the_ID(); ?> –> <?php if ( get_post_custom_values('comments') ) comments_template() // Add a custom field with Name and Value of "comments" to enable comments on this page ?> </div><!– #content –> </div><!– #container –> <?php get_sidebar(); ?> <?php get_footer(); ?></code></pre> <p>Next, I went in to the static home page I had created in WordPress and selected "Custom Home" as the page template. Of course, static home pages must set in WordPress' <strong>Settings -> Reading -> A static page (select below)</strong> radio button with the home page (or whatever you're calling it) selected in the <strong>Front page</strong> drop menu.</p> <p>Almost forgot: I did use the child theme functions.php for registering the home widgets:</p> <pre><code>// Adds three widget areas on the Homepage just below content in confunction with custom home.php template file if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) register_sidebar(array( 'name' => 'Home I', 'before_widget' => '<div id="%2$s" class="widget">', 'after_widget' => '</div>', 'before_title' => "\n<h3><span>", 'after_title' => "</span></h3>\n", )); register_sidebar(array( 'name' => 'Home II', 'before_widget' => '<div id="%2$s" class="widget">', 'after_widget' => '</div>', 'before_title' => "\n<h3><span>", 'after_title' => "</span></h3>\n", )); register_sidebar(array( 'name' => 'Home III', 'before_widget' => '<div id="%2$s" class="widget">', 'after_widget' => '</div>', 'before_title' => "\n<h3><span>", 'after_title' => "</span></h3>\n", ));</code></pre> nimrod on "Trouble Adding Custom Bits Below Content on Homepage" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/trouble-adding-custom-bits-below-content-on-homepage#post-12752 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:04:44 +0000 nimrod 12752@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Very frustrating... just to test, I tried every action hook on the Blue Mandala Thematic Page Structure diagram. <em>Every one</em> works<strong> except</strong> for the one that might be the right location for me: thematic_postfooter. </p> <p>I even tried checking the WP Action Reference without much luck: <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference</a></p> <p>The promising one, loop_end, doesn't actually place the content at the end of the loop. </p> <p>So, again, I'm wondering if I'm barking up the wrong tree. Is there some other preferred method of dropping content into a page after the entry? </p> azoomer on "Trouble Adding Custom Bits Below Content on Homepage" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/trouble-adding-custom-bits-below-content-on-homepage#post-12743 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:41:49 +0000 azoomer 12743@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Okay i don't really have a clue but you could try is_front_page instead of is_home</p> <pre><code>function childtheme_home_bits() { if (is_front_page()) { ?> Custom Bits <?php } } add_action('thematic_postfooter','childtheme_home_bits');</code></pre> <p>I think that is what you need to use for a static homepage </p> nimrod on "Trouble Adding Custom Bits Below Content on Homepage" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/trouble-adding-custom-bits-below-content-on-homepage#post-12739 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:50:01 +0000 nimrod 12739@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Well, thanks, but it doesn't show any hooks in the right place (I've been staring at it for a while now!). I see thematic_postfooter in what looks like a useful place, but it either is busted or doesn't work on a static page.</p> <p>So if I use the following with thematic_postfooter instead, nothing happens on the homepage when a static Page is used (and not the normal loop of posts):</p> <pre><code>function childtheme_home_bits() { if (is_home()) { ?> Custom Bits <?php } } add_action('thematic_postfooter','childtheme_home_bits');</code></pre> azoomer on "Trouble Adding Custom Bits Below Content on Homepage" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/trouble-adding-custom-bits-below-content-on-homepage#post-12737 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:15:37 +0000 azoomer 12737@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I found this very useful:</p> <p><a href="http://bluemandala.com/thematic/thematic-structure.html" rel="nofollow">http://bluemandala.com/thematic/thematic-structure.html</a></p> <p>it is a link from this thread:</p> <p><a href="http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/thematic-structure-diagram-widget-areas-included" rel="nofollow">http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/thematic-structure-diagram-widget-areas-included</a> </p> nimrod on "Trouble Adding Custom Bits Below Content on Homepage" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/trouble-adding-custom-bits-below-content-on-homepage#post-12735 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:20:36 +0000 nimrod 12735@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Wondering if there's some other route I've missed on adding content to a page in a child theme via Thematic?</p> <p>It seems incredibly limiting if the preferred method of modifying templates is via the functions.php file but ONLY if there's a hook in the right place to add the content. There doesn't seem to be one that allows me to add in a block below the page content of the homepage.</p> <p>Am I missing some other simple method? I just want to add some content below the page entry on the home page. This shouldn't be so hard! </p> nimrod on "Trouble Adding Custom Bits Below Content on Homepage" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/trouble-adding-custom-bits-below-content-on-homepage#post-12728 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:14:46 +0000 nimrod 12728@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hm, looking closer now, what I really need is a hook that goes beneath the post or the div class called "entry-content". </p> <p>This would still be within the "content" div and my content would still take advantage of the special styles set up there.</p> <p>Are there any hooks to accommodate that? </p> azoomer on "Trouble Adding Custom Bits Below Content on Homepage" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/trouble-adding-custom-bits-below-content-on-homepage#post-12705 Sun, 30 May 2010 19:05:26 +0000 azoomer 12705@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I tried it out and couldn't get it working. Seems that thematic_belowcontent is not responding, whereas thematic_belowcontainer works. </p> nimrod on "Trouble Adding Custom Bits Below Content on Homepage" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/trouble-adding-custom-bits-below-content-on-homepage#post-12658 Sat, 29 May 2010 01:54:35 +0000 nimrod 12658@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I can't figure out how to add some custom content below the content on a static Home page via a function in a child theme.</p> <p>From what I gather, this simple code should work:</p> <pre><code>function childtheme_home_bits() { if (is_home()) { ?> Custom Bits <?php } } add_action('thematic_belowcontent','childtheme_home_bits');</code></pre> <p>However, nothing appears and I can't seem to find any other hooks that would allow me to place the custom bits below the content on a page. In fact, if I simplify and remove the if(is home) part, it still doesn't work.</p> <p>I'm using latest Thematic 0.9.6.2, in WP 2.9.2, and a clean child theme taken from the example folder in Thematic (with just the one function added that is mentioned above).</p> <p>Any help is much appreciated. </p>