• This might be a weird question/request but I am trying to accomplish something with wordpress which I think is possible but don’t really have a clue how to do.

    So here it goes:

    I had a HTML site using some jquery script which I implemented in wordpress and everything went fine. What I now want to do is that whenever I add a post it uses that script. I’ve accomplished this and it works perfectly fine by changing to “HTML” instead of “Visual” when adding a post, then entering the following code:

    <ul class="articles">
            <li onclick="location.href='article.html'">
                <div class="animate">
                    <div class="icon"><img src="../img/Gehry3_thumb.png" width="320" height="320" alt="Gehry1" /></div>
                    <div class="description">
                        <h1>Post title</h1>
                        <p>Post text</p>
                    </div>
                    <div class="tags">
                    </div>
                </div>
            </li>
    </ul>

    This does exactly what I want it to do. But obviously I can’t expect my client to always leave the wp title field empty, enter this exact code under the HTML tab, change the picture source, post title, post text and link destination manually each time they want to add something new to their site.

    What do you guys think is the best way to make this more dynamic and easy to use?

    I know some pluggins have buttons you can add to your toolbars that automatically add code whenever you press it, is that a solution? How can you then solve it for the client to easily be able to change picture, text and link (want it to use <?php the_permalink(); ?> but don’t know how to solve that either!) inside of that code?

    Thank you so much in advance!

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    Why not put that in the template and not the post? You could have it pull in title and text as you want.

    Thread Starter kukhen

    (@kukhen)

    This is a part of my template’s index.php, you mean in here?

    [Code moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please use the pastebin]

    I’ve commented out some stuff I don’t want for now, so the only thing there of importance is the <?php the_content(); ?> call I think, so I have to go deeper and start editing the loop files to do what you are saying, or?

    Yes you’ll probably have to go and edit the loop files. It really depends on how your specific theme is implemented.

    You could also customize the Posts page to hide the editor window and show metaboxes so your users can input the relevant data. Then your theme will pull that metadata out and put it into the right places of that code.

    Thread Starter kukhen

    (@kukhen)

    It was actually quite easy, started to replace the post text, title, image etc with the php variables and then I realized how I was supposed to put it in the template just as you said. For those of you who are interested:

    http://pastebin.com/GuzfVj6J

    Thanks guys!

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