http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Tag: announcement en Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:03:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/326011#post-1262744 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:14:19 +0000 happyhigh 1262744@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I am looking for a plugin that will allow me to put a simple line of text that will appear at the top of each post that will act as an announcement banner.</p> <p>If anyone knows of such a plugin that would be great!</p> <p>Thanks </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/322665#post-1251946 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:17:35 +0000 rickmesser 1251946@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>SWWWEEEETTT!!! Worked like a charm man! Thank you so much! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/322665#post-1251820 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:34:12 +0000 tugbucket 1251820@http://wordpress.org/support/ <pre><code>&lt;div id=&quot;announcement&quot;&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;orange_tag&quot;&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Announcement&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;?php query_posts(&quot;posts_per_page=1&amp;category_name=announcements&quot;); ?&gt; &lt;?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?&gt; &lt;?php the_content(); ?&gt; &lt;?php endwhile; ?&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</code></pre> <p>that should query the category of "announcements" and display the most recent post from it. It won't post the date, time, title etc... just the post body. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/322665#post-1251708 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:20:54 +0000 rickmesser 1251708@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Generally new to WordPress &amp; php but very excited about it!<br /> Good with XHTML/CSS.<br /> Trying to make an announcement section on the homepage more dynamic. I created a category called "announcements" and I want a small section on the homepage to be updated with the 1 most recent post under "announcements" category.</p> <p>Currently I just have:<br /> <pre><code>&lt;?php include(TEMPLATEPATH.&#39;/announcement.txt&#39;); ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>That's work for now but I want to give my client the control to update it. I don't know how to get it to do what I want it to. I have searched the forums/codex but I'm not looking for the right keywords I think. </p> <p>Here's the site (under development)<br /> <a href="http://www.achildssong.com/2010/">http://www.achildssong.com/2010/</a></p> <p>This is my first theme and I've built it with Kubric as a starting point.</p> <p>Can someone point me in the right direction?? Is there a plugin that will work for this?</p> <p>Is there a way to do this? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/213837#post-887142 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:07:34 +0000 GrtAtlMedia 887142@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>If you are using NextGEN gallery the Announcement Plugin will cause all the thumbnail photo galleries to stop functioning normally. In other words your thumbnails generated by NextGEN will not open in the lightweight photo viewer, instead they will open in full size in the same window. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/198024#post-837692 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:30:23 +0000 Steviebdotnet 837692@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Just tried it, it's perfect. </p> <p>Cheers! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/198024#post-837688 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:25:21 +0000 Steviebdotnet 837688@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Excellent thanks, appreciate it. </p> <p>I'll give it a blast. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/198024#post-836930 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:08:14 +0000 whooami 836930@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Headache with Pictures is the plugin you want, and the download link is dead. I copied the code I have for it here:</p> <p><a href="http://pastebin.com/d2184fb15" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/d2184fb15</a> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/198024#post-836903 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:12:49 +0000 Steviebdotnet 836903@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Bump :D </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/198024#post-834108 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:04:50 +0000 Steviebdotnet 834108@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Nah, it's stickys posts as opposed to admin style messages in the dashboard. </p> <p>Anymore ideas? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/198024#post-834099 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:51:33 +0000 Steviebdotnet 834099@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Cheers Mikey, I'll give it a blast! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/198024#post-833733 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:06:54 +0000 mikey1 833733@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hi, I would take a look at this plugin, may help.<br /> <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-sticky/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-sticky/</a><br /> mike. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/198024#post-833720 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:51:14 +0000 Steviebdotnet 833720@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>No ideas at all?</p> <p>Sorry to bump again. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/198024#post-833415 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:52:12 +0000 Steviebdotnet 833415@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Bump ;) </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/198024#post-833332 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:57:29 +0000 Steviebdotnet 833332@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hi there, </p> <p>I have been searching for a while now, but can't seem to find anything that can help me. </p> <p>I as the administrator, would like the ability to post some kind of Notice or Announcement on the Dashboard homepage once a user has logged in.</p> <p>I'm not into e-mailing the members to be honest and would far rather this. </p> <p>Any ideas on a solution?</p> <p>Cheers</p> <p>Steve </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/192936#post-817157 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:11:41 +0000 tlongren 817157@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Sorry, I should have been more clear about what tag I was specifically talking about. And you're right deadgoon42, I was talking the blog tag line, not actual post tags.</p> <p>Thanks for your replies guys! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/192936#post-817153 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:08:17 +0000 deadgoon42 817153@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I think he's referring to the blog tag line and not tags. The requirements don't really specify where it should be displayed, just that it is displayed. So anywhere on the front page should do I would think. Mine is in the header on every page. They do require that the tag line must be the one the blog author specifies. I had written a small function to send up a few random ones and they said no. So I added another script to make the random tag line an option and set the author's tag line as the default. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/192936#post-817026 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:31:29 +0000 GDragoN 817026@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I had the similar problem with my theme. They require that every post on front page has tags displayed in some form. This is usually above post (below post tile) or at the end of the post. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/192936#post-816738 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:11:42 +0000 tlongren 816738@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Does anyone know where the tag line needs to be displayed to meet the requirements for inclusion in the theme directory? Is the page title sufficient?</p> <p>I released Unwakeable 1.5.1 earlier today. I typically don't post announcements here, but since this version works with WordPress 2.6, I figured it couldn't hurt.</p> <p>License: GPL<br /> Release: <a href="http://www.longren.org/2008/07/29/wordpress-theme-unwakeable-151/" rel="nofollow">http://www.longren.org/2008/07/29/wordpress-theme-unwakeable-151/</a><br /> Homepage: <a href="http://www.longren.org/wordpress/unwakeable/" rel="nofollow">http://www.longren.org/wordpress/unwakeable/</a><br /> Download: <a href="http://www.longren.org/downloads/unwakeable-1.5.1.zip" rel="nofollow">http://www.longren.org/downloads/unwakeable-1.5.1.zip</a></p> <p>Thanks everyone! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/162740#post-791025 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:22:05 +0000 mrsajith 791025@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/announcement" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/announcement</a> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/162740#post-791024 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:21:27 +0000 mrsajith 791024@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>here is the apt plugin for you:<br /> <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/announcement"></a> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/170833#post-750356 Sat, 03 May 2008 20:25:27 +0000 StrangeAttractor 750356@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I thought I would add a little extra about what I did, for anyone interested in doing the same thing.</p> <p><strong>Goals: </strong></p> <p>1) On a site where the blog is the home page, I wanted to have a intro "Welcome" section before the blog posts which could be surrounded with divs, etc. so that I could style it with CSS. </p> <p>2) Also, I wanted this intro to appear ONLY on the main page of the site, and if users clicked the "blog" link on the pages nav menu, they would not see the intro (because if they are on the site, they have already seen it). To restate this: even though the home page IS the blog page, I only wanted them to see the intro when first arriving at the site, but not when clicking on "blog" (or for that matter on "previous entries" at the bottom of the home page).</p> <p><strong>This is what I did:</strong></p> <p><strong>1)</strong> installed get-a-post plugin (see Moshu's post above for link)</p> <p><strong>2)</strong> put this code before the loop on my home.php template:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php get_a_post(16); //this uses the get_a_post plugin to pull up a page with id=16, which contains my Welcome entry ?&gt; &lt;!-- this area pulls up the title and content of entry, and is surrounded with divs that allow me to style the entry with background images etc. via the stylesheet --&gt; &lt;div id=&quot;welcome&quot;&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;?php the_content(); ?&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;welcome_footer&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;!-- Normal WordPress loop goes under here --&gt;</code></pre> <p><strong>3) Problem:</strong> the intro shows up on every page of the blog. I only want it on the first page, and also, I don't want it to show when someone clicks the "blog" link on the pages menu (which goes to <code><a href="http://www.mysite.com/blog/" rel="nofollow">www.mysite.com/blog/</a></code>).</p> <p><strong>Solution:</strong> Make sure that only page the intro shows up on is the naked URL of the WordPress site (e.g. <code><a href="http://www.mysite.com" rel="nofollow">www.mysite.com</a></code> or <code><a href="http://www.mysite.com/wordpress/" rel="nofollow">www.mysite.com/wordpress/</a></code> but NOT <code><a href="http://www.mysite.com/blog/" rel="nofollow">www.mysite.com/blog/</a></code> or <code><a href="http://www.mysite.com/wordpress/blog/" rel="nofollow">www.mysite.com/wordpress/blog/</a></code> etc.).</p> <p>Found the code for this <a href="http://www.kolossus.com/wordpress/wordpress-tip-homepage-only-content">on a post on Kolossus Interactive</a>, which uses <code>$_SERVER[’REQUEST_URI’]</code> to compare the location of the site to the url pulled up by <code>get_bloginfo(&#39;url&#39;)</code>.</p> <p>4) So now the whole thing looks like this (I've removed some of the annotation from the code above for brevity):</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $request_loc = &#39;http://www.mysite.com&#39;; $request_loc .= $_SERVER[&#39;REQUEST_URI&#39;]; //request_uri is a relative url $blog_loc = get_bloginfo(&#39;url&#39;); $blog_loc .= &#39;/&#39;; //wordpress&#39; blog url variable has no trailing slash, so add it ?&gt; &lt;?php if ( $request_loc == $blog_loc ): ?&gt; &lt;?php get_a_post(16); ?&gt; &lt;div id=&quot;welcome&quot;&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;?php the_content(); ?&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;welcome_footer&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;?php endif; ?&gt; &lt;!-- Normal WordPress loop goes under here --&gt;</code></pre> <p>It works - the intro will show up ONLY if the user is on the home page, but not on the blog's paged "previous entries" nor if the user clicks "blog" from the pages menu.</p> <p>There may be simpler ways of doing this, but this worked for me. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/170833#post-749894 Sat, 03 May 2008 01:06:32 +0000 StrangeAttractor 749894@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Thank you all for your help.</p> <p>I'm installing this for a client, so needed a solution that was both user-friendly and flexible (because I needed to be able to heavily style the intro area).</p> <p>The "Welcome visitor" plugin recommended by Boober was promising because of being integrated into the admin panel, but was not flexible enough for my purposes.</p> <p>The best solution turned out to be Moshu's recommendation of the "Get a Post" plugin -- user friendly because it can also get pages (and the client can edit the page like any other), but flexible because it allows me to control where it appears on templates, and I can wrap it up in divs, etc.</p> <p>Thanks again, everyone. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/170833#post-744574 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:38:00 +0000 StrangeAttractor 744574@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Thanks boober -- that also looks like a great option. I notice it's made by the same author as the plugin recommended by Moshu.</p> <p>I appreciate all the responses from everyone to my question, and it's great to have several options. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/170833#post-744141 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:19:44 +0000 boober 744141@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>i use this <a href="http://guff.szub.net/2006/04/12/welcome-visitor/" rel="nofollow">http://guff.szub.net/2006/04/12/welcome-visitor/</a></p> <p>thats how i put the three category image links at the top of my home page. you can put text, images, whatever. its styled through its own style in my style sheet. the page where you edit the content looks just like a post page. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/170833#post-744136 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:11:57 +0000 StrangeAttractor 744136@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Thanks mundgerecht.</p> <p>I am still testing out solutions. I will come back and post what worked for me. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/170833#post-743534 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:47:40 +0000 mundgerecht 743534@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p><code>&lt;? $my_id = 3; $post_id_7 = get_post($my_id); print $title = $post_id_7-&gt;post_content; ?&gt;</code></p> <p>i use this in teh template to include the post3 or page3 with $my_id = 3; </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/170833#post-740525 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:14:26 +0000 StrangeAttractor 740525@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Thanks, Moshu! That looks it would be ideal for what I want to do.</p> <p>I'll try it out and see how it works. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/170833#post-740500 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:14:09 +0000 moshu 740500@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I used this plugin several times when I needed exactly what you described above:<br /> <a href="http://guff.szub.net/2005/01/27/get-a-post/" rel="nofollow">http://guff.szub.net/2005/01/27/get-a-post/</a> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/170833#post-740450 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:06:42 +0000 StrangeAttractor 740450@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I guess this is a variation of the "sticky post" idea, but I'm having trouble turning up info in my searches.</p> <p>I'd like to have a static announcement at the top of my blog page, before the start of the loop. I'd like this to be something can be editable and changed through the wp-admin, so I want it to be the content of a page or a post.</p> <p>Also I'd like to be able to style this announcment via the stylesheet (so perhaps I'd put it in its own div).</p> <p>I'm thinking along the lines of inserting the content of a page (as opposed to a post) because the function is more like a page -- something that would be edited once in a while, but would mostly be static.</p> <p>Is there a way to stick the content of a page in before the loop starts? I've been looking at the template tags but not sure how I'd call up a page. </p>