Posted 1 year ago #
Sorry, newbie here.
1. I have 4 fixed categories to which I add text over the course of a week and then close them as a single post (under a date heading). I seek to have the text visible as it accumulates. Help, please.
2. I am using the Twenty-Ten theme and seek to suppress the author and date detail. Deleting the single.php entry-meta div class didn't help. Suggestions?
TIA
I am not sure I understand exactly what you are doing for question 1. Are you saving the daily text as a draft? Can you publish the post on the first day, and then update it during the week?
For question 2, edit style.css at line 578, and change this:
.entry-meta {
color:#888888;
font-size:12px;
}to this:
.entry-meta {
display: none;
color:#888888;
font-size:12px;
}
Posted 1 year ago #
Thanks on question 2.
WRT Q1, Non-registered community members submit entries for a weekly (push) posting and I need the interim compilation to be visible until the edition is closed, once per week. TIA.
Where do you keep the 'interim compilation'?
Posted 1 year ago #
I seek to have the text visible during the weekly compilation process. We are a community with announcements of 4 categories: Congrats/Bereavement, Hospitality, Calendar and Personal/Basement. Members submit their announcements in a random process. I seek to give a weekly time stamp and volume wrapping to the total. TIA.
I know you want to have it visible.
I think I understand what you want to do in the future. I am trying to understand how you are doing it now before I try to suggest a different way. Does a member submit a post? Do you enter it daily into a post? Is the weekly summary a post?
Posted 1 year ago #
At present, community members randomly email me notifications they want posted. I create and update an html page which closes weekly and then the process is renewed. TIA.
Can you go ahead and post the first notification you get, then update the post as you receive more? What am I missing?
Posted 1 year ago #
Yes, but I seek:
OK, a little progress in understanding the process. Here is what I think you are doing:
If that is not correct, please explain further.
To provide an automated solution, I will need to have a link to your site, possibly access to your theme's code, and some specifics about the location and names of the 4 documents for a week. If you are using a freely available theme, I can download it and install on my test site. If the theme is a premium (purchased) theme, I may not be able to help.
After thinking about this a little more, I think I have a solution although it may require some changes based on your needs. My idea is to use a shortcode in the weekly post to read in the four category files.
Here is how to implement it:
If this is totally off-track, please let me know.
The code:
<?php // Format: [mm-notifications week=yyyymmdd]
// Include four HTML files from subdirectory ABSPATH/notifications/$week/
function mm_notifications_func($atts) {
extract(shortcode_atts(array(
'week' => '',
), $atts));
$file1 = 'announcements.html';
$file2 = 'hospitality.html';
$file3 = 'calendar.html';
$file4 = 'personal.html';
$files = array($file1,$file2,$file3,$file4);
$warn = '<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">WARNING:</span>';
$output = '';
if (!preg_match('/\d{8}/',$week)) {
$output = "$warn The week parameter is incorrect or missing. Please use YYYYMMDD format.";
} else {
foreach ($files as $file) {
$filepath = ABSPATH . "notifications/$week/$file";
$fh = fopen($filepath,'r') or $error=true;
if ($error) {
$output .= "<p>$warn $filepath cannot be opened.</p>";
} else {
$output .= fread($fh,filesize($filepath));
fclose($fh);
}
}
}
return $output;
}
add_shortcode('mm-notifications', 'mm_notifications_func');
?>
Posted 1 year ago #
Wheeew! Thanks for the effort. I will give it a try on Sunday (after our sabbath)...
Posted 1 year ago #
Alas, not quite......
When text "mm-notifications week=20100702" (with and without []) is entered and attempted to save draft:
"Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home5/bermansh/public_html/bulletin/wp-content/themes/twentyten/functions.php:2) in /home5/bermansh/public_html/bulletin/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 890".
I am using the standard Twenty Ten 1.0 by the WordPress team
The 2010 default theme for WordPress.
All of this theme’s files are located in /themes/twentyten.
TIA.
Posted 1 year ago #
Alas, and now I can't access anything as I get:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home5/bermansh/public_html/bulletin/wp-content/themes/twentyten/functions.php on line 543
despite having replaced the entire functions.php which ends on line 542
I am terribly sorry for the trouble. It turns out that the TwentyTen theme's functions.php is TOTALLY different from others.
I think you would OK after deleting all the code I supplied. If not, replace functions.php with a fresh copy from a new download of WP 3.0. If you don't want to do that, I can email you a copy if you email me at mmcdonaldky =at= gmail.com.
Once you are working again, it would be wise to create a child theme of TwentyTen to hold your changes. That is really easy to do:
Now, any changes you make can be to the child, leaving the parent untouched.
Put the code I showed earlier into a new functions.php in the child folder and give it a try.
Again, very sorry for the trouble.
style.css:
/*
Theme Name: Twenty Ten Child
Description: Child theme for the Twenty Ten theme
Author: Your name here
Template: twentyten
*/
@import url("../twentyten/style.css");
Posted 1 year ago #
Aargh! same error
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home5/bermansh/public_html/bulletin/wp-content/themes/twentyten-child/functions.php on line 542
It doesn't like your code.
It looks like you put the original functions.php along with my code - that will not work. Put JUST MY CODE in the new functions.php, leave the original in the twentyten folder alone.
That should fix it.
Sorry for your frustration, but don't worry, we will get it right. I have tested the code with the original default theme and it works perfectly. The only problem is the new structure of twentyten's functions.php. Once you get the code into its own functions.php in the child folder, it should work.
Posted 1 year ago #
Thanks; up and running. And yes, your reasonably elegant solution addresses my posting request. Ticket closed.
The related issue is I seek to have only the announcements.html sent to social media as it is being compiled, but I think this is beyond our purview...
Thanks again. -PL
You are welcome - but tell me more about sending announcements.html to social media. What do you need, and what do you do now?
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