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1. 

   ap0019er
   Member

   I started playing with Thematic a couple of day ago. Looks like a great tool.

   I’m not sure however about how to approach my Wordpress implementation, while maintaining compatibility with future Thematic updates.
   I need to create a hierarchal Page (cannot use categories since I need some custom fields there) based navigation which is essential composed of 3 layers: Top of the hierarchy – Domain pages (the navigation menu is composed of these), second level – Projects, third level – Project subsections. The project pages and project subsections pages require to contain a Subsection navigation within that project.

   Now, in order to accomplish this I created two custom page templates for each type of page (project and subsection) and put them in the child theme directory. Within them I added the php code required to create the project navigation.

   Is this right? Won’t this kinda destroy the idea of upgrade compatibility (if the page.php file – on which the custom templates are based – changes in thematic future upgrades)? Should I have done this differently? (maybe using the child theme function.php file – dunno how however).

   Posted 3 years ago #
2. 

   Chris
   Moderator

   Hi,

   if you could provide the code, I'm sure that this could be done using the functions.php.

   Chris

   Posted 3 years ago #
3. 

   ap0019er
   Member

   In the project-page.php template I add this part (to add the menu). In the subsection-page.php I add something similar that works with the page parent (since I need to get the siblings of the project to create the menu in the subpages).
   

   <?php
   	$pages = get_pages('child_of='.$post->ID.'&sort_order=ASC');
   	if ($pages)
   	{
   	    echo '<ul id="proj-nav">';
   	    $fist_section_name = __(strval(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'first_section', true)));
   	    echo '<li>'.$fist_section_name.'</li>';
       	foreach($pages as $page)
       	{
       	?>
               <li><?php if ($page->ID == $post->ID): ?>
                       <?php echo $page->post_title ?>
                   <?php else: ?>
                       <a href="<?php echo get_page_link($page->ID) ?>"><?php echo $page->post_title ?></a>
                   <?php endif; ?>
               </li>
       	<?php
       	}
       	echo "</ul>";
   	}
   ?>

   In every other respect, the custom templates look like the original page.php.

   Posted 3 years ago #
4. 

   ap0019er
   Member

   I'm actually looking for a way to think about creating a theme based on thematic. How should I approach problems like this one, and still maintain upgrade compatibility.

   Posted 3 years ago #
5. 

   flick
   Member

   I'm intrigued by this as I haven't quite fully grasped how to create new page templates for Thematic as yet...

   Posted 3 years ago #

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