Cool. Now, suppose I wanted to use the “page” template in the default theme. How would I “force” wp-email to use that template?
Thanx again.
DD
If I understand you correctly, you have created a template called wp-email and included the header, sidebar, and footer that you want in it with include or get commands? Right?
If you want a different header or style sheet, create a different header (copy the original and call it header2.php works) and use the include command to bring that in instead of the get. Like this:
<?php
/* Don't remove this line. */
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
include(get_template_directory() . '/header2.php');
?>
Then you can put any style references you want in the new header.
Does this answer your question?
Remember, I’m way over my head here. It’s a miracle I’ve gotten this far. Mostly due to the assistance of people on this forum. What I have is a wp-email.php file that is part of the “plug in” and it seems to use the template for the blog. It begins with:
// Require WordPress Header
require(‘wp-blog-header.php’);
// Require E-Mailer Class
require(ABSPATH.WPINC.’/class-phpmailer.php’);
(The entire code is here)
There is no “include” or “get” or anything beyond the above. So what I would like to do is to create (or download) a template or CSS called say, e-mail, that would have only one col. Then I would have to put that somewhere (where I don’t know) and then add whatever I need to add to the wp-email,php file to make it use that template instead of the 3 col template used by the “rest” of the pages.
I thank you for being patient with me because, like I said i am in way over my head here (but learning nonetheless!).
Thanx Again
DD
Okay, what you need to do is find every reference to get_header(); and change that to:
include(get_template_directory() . '/header2.php');
This is not going to be easy.
OK, you are still over my head. What I don’t know is how to change the style reference for the file! In other words, what is it that says “use this template instead of that one”? “wp_blog-header.php” just looks like a bunch of code that I really don’t understand. Feel free to tell me that I have no biz trying to do this with my limited understanding. I already know that! But what the heck! Like I said, it’s a miracle I’ve gotten this far.
Thanx Again
DD
In other words, what is it that says “use this template instead of that one”
Are you referring to Page Template?
Well I don’t know. That’s the problem! I was hoping that someone could tell me. When I downloaded the template I currently use there were only two files, index.php and styles.css plus some image files. I installed these in the root dir of my blog and that was it (using 1.2 then but now using 1.5). So. I was hoping I could install another template (or theme) in the themes dir. and then get the wp-email page to use that theme instead of the theme used by the rest of the blog. What I really want to do is to simplify the look of the “email this article” page.
DD
