@AutomateKid – what Zack is telling you to do is to insert that code into your theme.
My guess is that you have your directory on a page – let’s say you called your page “directory” like:
yoursite.com/directory
ok – so to get the new code working for you, one suggestion is – make a custom theme file. You’re going to need to be able to add a file to your theme – I do this via FTP.
If you don’t know how to edit your theme… you’ll need to Google that a little.
But basically FTP into your theme folder – and see if you have a file called page.php
If you do, and if this page.php kinda looks something like:
get_header()
Some html follows
some code like: if have posts, while have posts the post:
the_title();
Some html
the_content();
some more html
enwhile endif
get_footer();
Ok – so if your page.php file has something like my pseudo code above then you’re in good shape.
Copy the page.php to your computer.
Rename the file page-directory.php and then edit it (using a text editor like Smultron, or WordPad).
Add Zacks code just below where you see the_content();
EXCEPT BE SURE YOU CHANGE THE ID OF THE FORM to the ID of the form you want to display as a directory.
ALSO if you do not see ?> after the content then add it in so your final should be like:
..Some HTML and maybe other code…
the_content(); ?>
<?php
$shortcode = ‘[directory form=”%s” start_date=”%s” end_date=”%s”]’;
$form_id = ’29’; // Replace this
$start = date(‘Y-m-d’, strtotime(‘-7 days’));
$end = date(‘Y-m-d’, time());
echo do_shortcode(sprintf($shortcode, $form_id, $start, $end));
?>
The rest of the HTML and code from this page…
Basically HTML is HTML, and PHP needs to be inbetween <?php and ?> or <? and ?>
And once you’ve done this – upload the newly created page-directory.php to your theme folder.
Some other ideas for you:
If you don’t have a Developer copy of your site… then best try this out late at night OR create a fake page — go into your WordPress admin and make a page called
Fake Page that loads up at http://yoursite.com/fake-page
now name the file page-fake-page.php instead of page-directory.php
Now you can muck about until you see it working. Once you do, you should be able to rename the file page-directory.php (or whatever the page your directory lives on is called) – and the new theme file will load in place of page.php – and therefore load in the little extra code Zack gave ya.
Remember to remove the shortcode you had pasted into your Directory page originally, it’s now going to print out below whatever text etc you’ve saved in the Content Editor of that page — and yea the directory will just be the last thing on that page – if you want anything else to show below the directory, you’d have to put that below Zack’s code in your page-directory.php file…. and if you ever wanted to change it, you’d have to edit that file again.
No guarantees there are all kinds of ways (like child themes, and template tags and whatnot that could mess it up) – but if you have a simple theme that should work for ya.
