dv1961
Member
Hi there,
I’m trying to use wordpress and thematic as a CMS in which the blog page would be used as a news page. Most of the site will be static pages.
Problems is, I’d like to have different images in the sidebar on most pages, can this be done?
I reasonable good with css but a novice with php. Any ideas?
Thanks John
@dv1961: I think there are probably multiple ways to approach this, but one way I think you could consider is to either create a custom sidebar (and the code sample below?) or use e.g. PHP Code Widget and the same code sample below to Showing Attachments for the Post
Sort of copy/paste from Codex
<?php
global $post;
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'attachment',
'numberposts' => -1,
'post_status' => null,
'post_parent' => $post->ID
);
$attachments = get_posts($args);
if ($attachments) {
foreach ($attachments as $attachment) {
echo the_attachment_link($attachment->ID, false);
}
}
?>This seems to display the attached content in the sidebar very easily but will need to be modified further to display more images etc.
Am sure there will be other suggestions! :)
p/s: A few other reference sites for further development
http://digwp.com/2009/08/awesome-image-attachment-recipes-for-wordpress/
http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2009/08/28/playing-with-post-attachments/
This is a bit of a rambling post...
On further experimentation, you could consider using the inbuilt [gallery] shortcode to help with displaying post images:
Add to child theme functions.php
//This adds Post-Thumbnail support
if ( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) { // Added in 2.9
add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails');
}
// This allows shortcodes to work in widgets
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');And in a typical text widget add:
[gallery]
Then you would upload images as normal when writing a post (so that it becomes attached as a Gallery) and it will display all the attached images in the sidebar. The default shortcode isn't very customisable so you could consider using another plugin that extends the functionality.
One issue occurs when trying to use the same image in different posts; I only found out just now that a 'feature' (or liability?) of native WP media handling is that once an image is attached to a post, it can't be attached to another post, unless you upload that same image again or detach it.
There seem to be at least two plugins built to get around this: Media Library Plus plugin and (currently-alpha-beta) File Gallery.
dv1961
Member
Thanks for getting back to me. As I said, I'm something of a novice with php so give me a few days to digest all this and I'll let you know how I get on
John
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