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1. Curtis
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Currently, I have the following code on my home page for 3 featured blocks (the IDs refer to individual pages):

   <div id="columns">
   
     <div class="html_blog">
       <div class="post-title">
         <h2><?php $pageID = 164; $page = get_post($pageID); echo $page->post_title; ?></h2>
       </div>
       <?php if ( has_post_thumbnail(164) ) { echo "<div class=\"pic\"><a href=\"".get_permalink(164)."\">".get_the_post_thumbnail('164', $size, $attr )."</a></div>"; } ?>
       <div class="post-excerpt">
         <p><?php $pageID = 164; $page = get_post($pageID); echo $page->post_excerpt; ?></p>
         <p><a href="<?php echo get_permalink(164); ?>">Read More</a></p>
       </div>
     </div>
   
     <div class="html_blog">
       <div class="post-title">
         <h2><?php $pageID = 180; $page = get_post($pageID); echo $page->post_title; ?></h2>
       </div>
       <?php if ( has_post_thumbnail(180) ) { echo "<div class=\"pic\"><a href=\"".get_permalink(180)."\">".get_the_post_thumbnail('180', $size, $attr )."</a></div>"; } ?>
       <div class="post-excerpt">
         <p><?php $pageID = 180; $page = get_post($pageID); echo $page->post_excerpt; ?></p>
         <p><a href="<?php echo get_permalink(180); ?>">Read More</a></p>
       </div>
     </div>
   
     <div class="html_blog">
       <div class="post-title">
         <h2><?php $pageID = 187; $page = get_post($pageID); echo $page->post_title; ?></h2>
       </div>
       <?php if ( has_post_thumbnail(187) ) { echo "<div class=\"pic\"><a href=\"".get_permalink(187)."\">".get_the_post_thumbnail('187', $size, $attr )."</a></div>"; } ?>
       <div class="post-excerpt">
         <p><?php $pageID = 187; $page = get_post($pageID); echo $page->post_excerpt; ?></p>
         <p><a href="<?php echo get_permalink(187); ?>">Read More</a></p>
       </div>
     </div>
   
     <div class="clr"></div>
   </div>

   I was curious if, instead of hard coding the page IDs in, would it be possible to have the blocks appear if I set a custom field? For example, creating a name of "featured" and the value being a 1, 2 or 3?

   If this is possible, my concern would be if the admin forgot to erase the custom field from the page when they add a new featured page in place of one of those blocks that 2 pages might appear in the same block so I was curious if just the latest page could be placed in the block. (Alternatively, is it easy to create a mechanism/pull down menu somewhere in the theme admin that allowed one to select what page should be featured in each block?)

2. grfxboy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Bump

   I am interested in this as well. I know I should run a query post and extract the values from the custom fields. It's the conditional syntax I'm not good at. Help?

3. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_posts
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Query

4. grfxboy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks esmi. I have 5 features on the homepage (http://semnsynod.org). I want to be able to set any post as a feature by using custom fields. So, value=1 would be the feature far left, 2 is next to it, and so on. The title is a custom field. The image is a url in the custom field, and the content for the feature is the excerpt.

   So I am thinking I need to

   -get posts
   -order by custom field feature number
   -look for custom field title
   -look for custom field image url
   -look for excerpt.

   Am I on the right track or am I going about this all wrong? Thanks.

5. grfxboy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   This is what I have so far:
   

   <?php
   
   $query = new WP_Query( array (
   	'meta_key' => 'feature',
   	'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
   	'order' => 'ASC'
   ));
   // The Loop
   while ($query->have_posts()) : $query->the_post(); ?>
   
   <div id="feature1">
   	<div class="featureContent">
   		<h4 class="featureHeader"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'header', true); ?> >></a></h4>
   		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'thumbnail', true); ?>" border=0></a><br>
   		<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'blurb', true); ?>
   	</div>
   </div>
   
   <?php endwhile; ?>

   This is working. But how do I include both posts AND pages in the query? Some features are pages, and some are posts. Currently only the posts are showing.

6. grfxboy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Do I need to create a Custom Select Query to search both pages and posts for a custom field value? That's what I understand from this page: http://codex.wordpress.org/Displaying_Posts_Using_a_Custom_Select_Query

   Any help would be appreciated.

7. Notyouraverageblogger
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Hi Im not good with code but if its explained to me i can try and grasp it, ok heres my problem.

   Im having problems with my images, on the home page of my site, there is a feature page made up from my theme wootheme: premiumnews.

   The images are appearing pixelated please check this out if you can, any feedback would be helpful. Im using a mac computer safari browser.

   Thanks

   http://www.tolifemag.co.uk

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