http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:30:57 +0000 http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/blog-tagline-not-showing-up-in-browser-window#post-24799 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:05:26 +0000 helgatheviking 24799@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>tested locally this should add the site title to the beginning of the doctitle everywhere except for the home/front pages where it already is:</p> <pre><code>function childtheme_doctitle($elements) { $site_name = get_bloginfo(&#39;name&#39;); $separator = apply_filters(&#39;thematic_doctitle_separator&#39;, &#39;|&#39;); // and now adding the site name if we&#39;re not on home or front_page if (!( is_home() || is_front_page() )) { array_unshift($elements, $site_name, $separator); } return $elements; } add_filter(&#39;thematic_doctitle&#39;, &#39;childtheme_doctitle&#39;);</code></pre> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/blog-tagline-not-showing-up-in-browser-window#post-24796 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:00:11 +0000 drewdavid 24796@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I also found this post which has some different code at: <a href="http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/change-doctitle?replies=4#post-24794" rel="nofollow">http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/change-doctitle?replies=4#post-24794</a></p> <p>For the most part it seems to work just fine, except my home page has no separator. The blog title and the tagline run straight together...</p> <p>Either solution would be great to get working... Thanks. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/blog-tagline-not-showing-up-in-browser-window#post-24793 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:24:46 +0000 drewdavid 24793@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Here are lines 19-22:</p> <pre><code>function childtheme_doctitle() {    // You don&#39;t want to change this one.  $site_name = get_bloginfo(&#39;name&#39;);</code></pre> <p>Thanks. :) </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/blog-tagline-not-showing-up-in-browser-window#post-24776 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:31:44 +0000 helgatheviking 24776@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>well what is line 21 and just prior? though i see this double semi-colon right away</p> <pre><code>$content .= &#39; &#39; . single_cat_title(&quot;&quot;, false);;</code></pre> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/blog-tagline-not-showing-up-in-browser-window#post-24773 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:14:19 +0000 drewdavid 24773@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi Helga,</p> <p>I can't seem to figure out where the offender is! Here is my functions.php code as shown on the theme filters page:</p> <pre><code>function childtheme_doctitle() { // You don&#39;t want to change this one. $site_name = get_bloginfo(&#39;name&#39;);   // But you like to have a different separator $separator = &#39;&amp;raquo;&#39;;   // We will keep the original code if ( is_single() ) { $content = single_post_title(&#39;&#39;, FALSE); } elseif ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) { $content = get_bloginfo(&#39;description&#39;); } elseif ( is_page() ) { $content = single_post_title(&#39;&#39;, FALSE); } elseif ( is_search() ) { $content = __(&#39;Search Results for:&#39;, &#39;thematic&#39;); $content .= &#39; &#39; . wp_specialchars(stripslashes(get_search_query()), true); } elseif ( is_category() ) { $content = __(&#39;Category Archives:&#39;, &#39;thematic&#39;); $content .= &#39; &#39; . single_cat_title(&quot;&quot;, false);; } elseif ( is_tag() ) { $content = __(&#39;Tag Archives:&#39;, &#39;thematic&#39;); $content .= &#39; &#39; . thematic_tag_query(); } elseif ( is_404() ) { $content = __(&#39;Not Found&#39;, &#39;thematic&#39;); } else { $content = get_bloginfo(&#39;description&#39;); } if (get_query_var(&#39;paged&#39;)) { $content .= &#39; &#39; .$separator. &#39; &#39;; $content .= &#39;Page&#39;; $content .= &#39; &#39;; $content .= get_query_var(&#39;paged&#39;); } // until we reach this point. You want to have the site_name everywhere? // Ok .. here it is. $my_elements = array( &#39;site_name&#39; =&gt; $site_name, &#39;separator&#39; =&gt; $separator, &#39;content&#39; =&gt; $content ); // and now we&#39;re reversing the array as long as we&#39;re not on home or front_page if (!( is_home() || is_front_page() )) { $my_elements = array_reverse($my_elements); } // And don&#39;t forget to return your new creation return $my_elements; } // Add the filter to the original function add_filter(&#39;thematic_doctitle&#39;, &#39;childtheme_doctitle&#39;);</code></pre> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/blog-tagline-not-showing-up-in-browser-window#post-24769 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:09:27 +0000 helgatheviking 24769@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>syntax error means exactly that... error in your syntax. likely missing a ) , ; ' } or something some where. i can also mean you have some punctuation where you shouldn't but since it says unexpected string, you are probs not closing something right </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/blog-tagline-not-showing-up-in-browser-window#post-24768 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:27:16 +0000 drewdavid 24768@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi so I found some information on this page:</p> <p><a href="http://themeshaper.com/thematic/guide/?page_id=12" rel="nofollow">http://themeshaper.com/thematic/guide/?page_id=12</a></p> <p>Under the heading 'thematic_doctitle()'</p> <p>However by using that code I got the following error.</p> <p>Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/content/x/r/o/xroox/html/24hrknight/wp-content/themes/tuxedo/functions.php on line 21</p> <p>Thanks. :) </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/blog-tagline-not-showing-up-in-browser-window#post-24767 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:20:52 +0000 drewdavid 24767@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I'd like the blog tagline/description to be placed in the title before or after the blog title, as well as individual post/page titles.</p> <p>Right now I only get the blog title on the home page, and only the page/post title.</p> <p>Thanks! :)</p> <p>Drew </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/header-delete-blog-title-and-description#post-24751 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:51:44 +0000 dazlm 24751@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Who are you people... and why do you keep solving my problems? :) Thanks for this code! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/how-do-i-add-meta-title-and-description-tags-to-this-theme#post-23342 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:32:17 +0000 Duke 23342@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>This is an old post but I will write a short response for any future readers who might encounter the same problem.</p> <p>To setup keyword and description meta in the Thematic template, simply add the following code into your child theme functions.php. And don't forget to insert your keywords! ;)</p> <p>function child_meta_keywords($description) {<br /> if(is_front_page())<br /> {<br /> $keywords_meta = "\t" . '&lt;meta name="keywords" content="Your keywords go here!" /&gt;' . "\n\n";<br /> $description_meta = "\t" . '&lt;meta name="description" content="Your description goes here!" /&gt;' . "\n\n";<br /> $child_meta = $description . $keywords_meta . $description_meta;<br /> return $child_meta;<br /> }<br /> return $description;<br /> }<br /> add_filter ('thematic_create_description','child_meta_keywords'); </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/double-meta-description-with-the-seo-plugin-by-yoast#post-22219 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 03:58:20 +0000 helgatheviking 22219@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>don't forget to mark as resolved </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/double-meta-description-with-the-seo-plugin-by-yoast#post-22218 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 03:33:21 +0000 Tom Kroscavage 22218@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Thanks! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/double-meta-description-with-the-seo-plugin-by-yoast#post-22215 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 02:31:13 +0000 helgatheviking 22215@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>i think this should remove the thematic description</p> <pre><code>//Remove Thematic Meta Description function remove_description($display) { $display = FALSE; return $display; } add_filter(&#39;thematic_show_description&#39;, &#39;remove_description&#39;);</code></pre> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/double-meta-description-with-the-seo-plugin-by-yoast#post-22214 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:14:39 +0000 Tom Kroscavage 22214@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I have two meta descriptions in all my post headers the first meta description is the same as my excerpt. I would like to remove this one. the second is generated by the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin.</p> <p>Here is a post from my site:<br /> <a href="http://norman-okc.com/weld/lincoln-ln-25-feedrolls/" rel="nofollow">http://norman-okc.com/weld/lincoln-ln-25-feedrolls/</a> </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-custom-static-category-info-to-40-category-pages#post-17764 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:13:18 +0000 rpeterika 17764@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>In review:</p> <p>Using the Taxonomy Meta plugin linked above, I set a featured post for each category archive and created a post for each category archive meta content.</p> <p>Then, in category.php I inserted the code from the post above.</p> <p>Now my category archives have post content associated with each archive (though the formatting is still unresolved) </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-custom-static-category-info-to-40-category-pages#post-17735 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:14:49 +0000 rpeterika 17735@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Got it working!</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php // Get the category id of this archive, as an integer $thecat = get_query_var(&#39;cat&#39;); //works! // Find the corresponding featured post for $thecat $tax_meta = get_option( &#39;category_featured&#39; ); $tax_meta_post_id = $tax_meta[$thecat]; //works! // Add the post content of the feature post $tax_meta_post = get_post($tax_meta_post_id); $tax_meta_content = $tax_meta_post-&gt;post_content; echo $tax_meta_content; ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>The whole time I forgot to echo the featured post content!</p> <p>Thanks again for all your help! </p> <p>One problem I still have is that the featured post content isn't formatted the same the post... any ideas on how to adjust this? </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-custom-static-category-info-to-40-category-pages#post-17733 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:28:39 +0000 rpeterika 17733@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Print_r worked this time, exactly as you have it above ^. I didn't understand what how to set up the variables the first time you mentioned the print_r function.</p> <p>I am able to get the "Featured post" out of the database by being on the corresponding category archive, but now I'm stuck on calling that single featured Id post content.</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php // Get the category id of this archive, as an integer foreach(get_the_category() as $category) { $thecat = $category-&gt;cat_ID; } // Find the corresponding featured post for $thecat $tax_meta = get_option( &#39;category_featured&#39; ); $tax_meta_id = $tax_meta[$thecat]; echo $tax_meta_id; // Add the post content of the feature post $tax_meta_content = get_post($tax_meta_id); foreach($tax_meta_content as $post) : setup_postdata($post); the_content(); endforeach; // Display the content of the category_featured array $test = get_option(&#39;category_featured&#39;); print_r($test); ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>What I get with this code is:</p> <blockquote><p> 442Array ( [7] =&gt; 442 [101] =&gt; 449 [14] =&gt; 0 ) </p></blockquote> <p>442 is the associated feature_id, good. Array prints and looks good. But the content for post 442 didn't get shown in between those two functions.</p> <p>This only works on archives with categorized posts. If no posts exist within that archive then the post foreach function has a fatal error.</p> <p>I'll continue troublsehooting </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-custom-static-category-info-to-40-category-pages#post-17731 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:30:42 +0000 helgatheviking 17731@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>how are you defining $category_featured in your function? you have to give it a value or you will end up with the empty array... as denoted by print_r being blank. print_r should should data similar to what is in the database. that at least does tell us that the info is going into the db, now you need to get it out. it is in the options table?</p> <p>if you add this to the function i showed you before to echo things to thematic_before just to test them out.</p> <pre><code>$test = get_option(&#39;category_featured&#39;); print_r($test);</code></pre> <p>do you get some data? </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-custom-static-category-info-to-40-category-pages#post-17729 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:00:01 +0000 rpeterika 17729@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>OK, found the database value in the wp_options table, just like Brad said:</p> <blockquote><p> I’m going to save that meta data (the ID in this case) as a single array of options in the WordPress options table.</p> </blockquote> <p>And this is the value for "category_featured":<br /> a:3:{i:7;i:442;i:101;i:449;i:14;i:0;}</p> <p>Reality check!<br /> category ID 7 does have featured ID of 442... looks good compared to "i:7;i:442"<br /> category ID 101 does have featured ID of 449... looks good compared to "i:101;i:449"<br /> category ID 14 does have featured ID of 0... I didn't enter anything in that category</p> <p>So my worry that the data wasn't being stored is extinguished. Back to calling the array correctly...</p> <p>I don't know what the a:3: means though? </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-custom-static-category-info-to-40-category-pages#post-17726 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:27:39 +0000 rpeterika 17726@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>print_r($category_featured) isn't giving me anything, which may be related to the fact that the tax meta plugin DOESN'T explain how to call that ID. I made a guess that I could call the array(category_featured) based on the notes, but it isn't showing "449" or similar (as I should expect).</p> <p>I even checked the database to see if a value was written and I can't find a related number other than object_id. The Category Meta plugin wrote new database values for "image1" and "proj-list" (that I created)</p> <p>Here is what the language is...</p> <blockquote><p>As you can see we are saving the Category ID and Featured Post ID as a single associative array option value in WordPress named category_featured. As you add Featured Post ID values to each of your categories they will be added to this array and saved in WordPress.</p></blockquote> <p>Now that I just read that again, maybe what I need to do is to setup a conditional if category_ID is equal to this_category then get_posts(featured_post_ID). Now I need to figure out how to do that...</p> <p>The investigation continues. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-custom-static-category-info-to-40-category-pages#post-17724 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:33:45 +0000 helgatheviking 17724@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>if you are in a template you can just print_r($array) with whatever the array is called to see its full contents. sometimes i also do this</p> <pre><code>function test_stuff(){ echo &quot;bacon!&quot; . $variable_i_want_to_inspect ; print_r($suspicious_array); } add_action(&#39;thematic_before&#39;,&#39;test_stuff&#39;);</code></pre> <p>does the tax meta plugin explain how to get the ID for that featured post?</p> <p>also your chunk of code is a little suspect. i dont know if this will fix it, but you either use a new WP_Query OR get_posts, not both. and in this situation it is better to use get posts and not monkey w/ the regular query.</p> <pre><code>$args=array( &#39;post_type&#39;=&gt;&#39;post&#39;, &#39;post__in&#39; =&gt; array($category_featured) ); $taxo_meta_post = get_posts(&#39;$args&#39;); foreach($taxo_meta_post as $post) : setup_postdata($post); the_content(); endforeach;</code></pre> <p>be sure to echo out $category_featured somewhere so that you can see what kind of info is in that variable. it might not be what you expect </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-custom-static-category-info-to-40-category-pages#post-17723 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:16:46 +0000 rpeterika 17723@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>False alarm, not working yet, it is just calling the content of the latest posts... I made another page and it call that featured content and then the previous featured content and then the other posts...</p> <p>Not there yet. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-custom-static-category-info-to-40-category-pages#post-17722 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:03:40 +0000 rpeterika 17722@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Getting closer... real close actually!</p> <p>So using this chunk:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $args=array( &#39;post_type&#39;=&gt;&#39;post&#39;, &#39;post__in&#39; =&gt; array($category_featured) ); $the_query = new WP_Query($args); ?&gt; &lt;?php $taxo_meta_post = get_posts(&#39;$the_query&#39;); foreach($taxo_meta_post as $post) : setup_postdata($post); ?&gt; &lt;?php the_content(); ?&gt; &lt;?php endforeach; wp_reset_query();</code></pre> <p>I've been able to call the content of the featured post (per taxonomy meta ID)! SUCCESS! But, it also calls the content from other random posts (The latest posts I think), and only three...</p> <p>Do you know how I can echo the array($category_featured)? (I'd like to inspect the query)<br /> or Have a suggestion on why the other content is being shown?</p> <p>Thanks for all your help so far... with your suggestions I've really leaped forward in code comprehension! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-custom-static-category-info-to-40-category-pages#post-17677 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:50:58 +0000 helgatheviking 17677@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>well if you have that posts ID number then you can can the_title($id) and the_content($id) inside the loop that $id variable defaults to whatever post is currently being handled by the loop, but outside the loop you can feed it a post ID number.</p> <p>i know what you mean about spending the day on something. i just finished a brutal slider with all kinds of ridiculous functionality about what goes IN the slider. phew. time for a break. good luck. and definitely let me know how it goes. i think i need category meta next. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-custom-static-category-info-to-40-category-pages#post-17676 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:53:23 +0000 rpeterika 17676@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>From what I understand about the taxonomy meta data plugin is that you can set a featured post to the category. So I am trying to figure out how to call the post content of that featured post once you are in the category archive.</p> <p>I'm assuming you have reviewed the code from the last link...</p> <pre><code>//test spot... tme_save_featured($term_id); echo $current_featured; ?&gt;Current Featured ^ &lt;?php echo $category_featured; ?&gt;Category Featured ^ &lt;?php echo $term_id; ?&gt;Term ID ^ &lt;?php $queried_post = get_post($category_featured); $content = $queried_post-&gt;post_content; $content = apply_filters(&#39;the_content&#39;, $content); $content = str_replace(&#39;]]&gt;&#39;, &#39;]]&gt;&#39;, $content); echo $content;</code></pre> <p>With this chunk of frankensteined code I am doing a couple of things... trying to see if the plugin is assigning any values to those three terms at the top, which if it is I'm not calling the values right.</p> <p>Also I trying to the the post content of that featured post, but instead I get the content of the one post that falls under this category.</p> <p>I've almost spent all day trying to figure this out now... almost there too... </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-custom-static-category-info-to-40-category-pages#post-17674 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:46:51 +0000 helgatheviking 17674@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>huh? </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-custom-static-category-info-to-40-category-pages#post-17673 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:33:30 +0000 rpeterika 17673@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Yes, but now how do I call that featured post? </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-custom-static-category-info-to-40-category-pages#post-17660 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:25:13 +0000 helgatheviking 17660@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>it was so weird and timely that you posted this today. i have a project where it looks like i am going to be using categories as sub-sites.</p> <p>check this out... i think it could be helpful:<br /> <a href="http://www.strangework.com/2010/07/01/how-to-save-taxonomy-meta-data-as-an-options-array-in-wordpress/" rel="nofollow">http://www.strangework.com/2010/07/01/how-to-save-taxonomy-meta-data-as-an-options-array-in-wordpress/</a> </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/double-meta-description-after-platinum-seo-pack#post-17659 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:44:05 +0000 joperron 17659@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Never mind. I'm a bit brain dead I think! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/double-meta-description-after-platinum-seo-pack#post-17657 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:28:55 +0000 joperron 17657@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Even using those functions the description meta is still generated if I have an excerpt. </p>