Usining this Plugin

  • Resolved dr_dad

    (@dr_dad)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    I am just learning how to create a WP website. I am using the Woodpeker theme. I need your plugin to create a book gallery that shows information about the author, the book description, and a paypal button. I created a page entitled Books. But, the theme’s home page features 3 columns in which to highlight main website features. I’ve created a picture for each column and written a brief blurb. I want to send the reader to a page to continue the information. Two of the columns will need only one column for the information. But, the other column will highlight my books and I will need 3 or 4 columns. With each books I want the reader to be linked to a more detail presentation. I need to know where the short code is inserted. My website is http://www.wpsweet1.com/charms/

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/cc-child-pages/

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  • Plugin Author caterhamcomputing

    (@caterhamcomputing)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    Hi.

    I’m not really sure what you are asking?

    I can see that you have used the shortcode on the Books page (http://www.wpsweet1.com/charms/books/) to show it’s child pages.

    If you wanted to display these same child pages on the front page (or any other page) you would need to set the id parameter to the id of the parent page (http://www.wpsweet1.com/charms/books/).

    The shortcode would be placed wherever you want the child pages displayed.

    I think that you are suggesting using the plugin within one of the existing columns on your front page … if this is so, I would strongly suggest setting the cols parameter to 1 to avoid the columns being too squashed and becoming unreadable on smaller screens.

    The plugin is not directly capable of displaying other information or adding PayPal buttons – it was designed purely to allow child pages to be listed.

    However, if you use set the parameter truncate_excerpt="false" you will be able to enter your own HTML as the excerpt for each page without it being truncated by the plugin – it would probably be easiest to use the “Rich Text Excerpts” plugin to allow you to edit the excerpt using the standard WordPress editor.

    You might find that some kind of shopping cart or product catalogue plugin is more appropriate to use for this scenario.

    Plugin Author caterhamcomputing

    (@caterhamcomputing)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Hi.

    I am marking this as resolved as I haven’t heard any more from you.

    I can see that you are using the plugin successfully at http://www.wpsweet1.com/charms/books/

    I hope that my previous comments were of some help.

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