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1. dannykilla
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,

   I have installed your widget thinking that the Widget Context would be able to show it on my frontpage, this however didnt work.

   I use the theme Wisebusiness and I have slightly changed the way the theme works, as it has its own homepage widgets, which I have removed.

   So basically, is there a simple way of getting this to show on the homepage as this is the only location I wish to have this viewable.

   Thanks

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rift-shard-status/

2. jakob42
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   The Widget can be shown everywhere in your theme where it defines a space for widgets.

   But I'm not sure what it is you would like to see. Do you want a php function to integrate directly in you theme? Or a shortcode?

3. dannykilla
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Basically, the Homepage of my site doesnt use the normal widgets function, so a shortcode that would allow me to place that code in the home.php file would be great, if thats possible.

   Thanks

4. jakob42
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I didn't had time to test it somewhere, but the following lines of code should work:

   $instance = array();
   $instance['shard'] = "yourShard";
   $instance['region'] = "eu"; // or "us"
   $instance['cache_time'] = 300 // in seconds
   $instance['show_last_update'] = true; // or false...
   echo(rift_shard_status_html($instance));

5. dannykilla
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi Jakob,

   Thanks for the reply, I pasted the code above with the change to my Shard and when I refresh my homepage all I can see is the code itself, like it is above?

   Is there something else I should have done?

   Thanks
   Dan

6. jakob42
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   This is PHP code, therefore it needs to be in an php environment. The following should work:
   

   <?php
   THE_CODE
   ?>

7. dannykilla
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   thanks for the reply,

   I actually tried that and get the following error when I refresh the page:

   Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE

   Thanks

8. jakob42
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Well, there was a semicolon missing and I added a <div> to make sure the plugin uses its stylesheet:

   <div class="riftss">
   <?php
   $instance = array();
   $instance['shard'] = "yourshard";
   $instance['region'] = "eu"; // or "us"
   $instance['cache_time'] = 300; // in seconds
   $instance['show_last_update'] = true; // or false...
   echo(rift_shard_status_html($instance));
   ?>
   </div>

9. dannykilla
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Awesome thanks!

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