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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Want to create a very simple page templateSo in other words I would be adding all of the changes I wanted to my main stylesheet and just making sure they only effect this one page?
Well one of the reasons I want a page which uses a different .css file is because I’m adding a large list of custom classes/id’s that will not be used on other pages. If I add all this to the main .css file then every page will need to load and process that info. It may not exactly be enough to truly impact the performance of the site, but it seems like such a terrible waste. It seems to me that it is more sensible to add a “costly call” to one single page than to increase the tax on every single page, post, and blog on my site.
Besides, don’t most browsers download the stylesheet again for each page they visit on the site? When I make a change to my stylesheet I can see the changes by moving to another post instead of hitting the refresh button. It seems a bit wasteful to add an extra 3,000 characters of text to each and every page-view when those lines are only needed by a page most people won’t visit. If twenty people read through twenty pages of archives, that’s an extra half-meg of download. Not exactly something to cry about, but still…
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Want to create a very simple page templateYes.
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Arranging my Archives pageSorry, yeah, I found something here.
For some reason when I was first putting that page together I never saw the other templates; I swear the drop-down list only showed one archives template.
I found one of the other templates that works like what I want. I might try to make a custom template later when I have enough content to justify a different format.On the subject of templates though… What would I need in a new file to create a template that is just a regular page but uses a different CSS file? (This is for a different page I want to add.)
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Add script to header? Enable mouseover to change an image…http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_sprites_hover_nav
Ohhhhhh yeeeahhhh… I forgot about that. The page I was starting from is one I was building before I learned CSS.
That’s going to be a lot easier to make, doing it that way.
Thanks a bundle!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Arranging my Archives pageThe full code? I haven’t modified any of the code, just the settings in the dashboard. I wouldn’t even know where to find the code.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Starting out, want to add some simple changesErk, dang it, I can’t edit my earlier post, and I just went on too long and didn’t come to the real point I needed to make.
Okay, so I’ve created a plugin that the system recognizes, even though it baffles me that it can read info that is commented out.
I set it up to make sure the plugin-itself properly retrieves and displays meta data by having it retrieve and display the hovertext. It is properly working in that regard.
So what I need now is an ability to actually add my new field of an extra text to the meta. I do not know how to proceed here.
As I said before, I can see the code used in the ComicPress manager that actually displays an entry field and saves that data to the meta. But I don’t just throw this into my plugin, it has to actually appear somewhere. I don’t even know where I can have this appear.
I don’t know if it is possible to have a plugin add a new field into the comic press manager’s plugin’s page, let alone how one would do this. And if I have to create a new page just to handle this one input field… where is that page going to go? Where do I access it? And of course, how do I do this?So I’ve got everything else working, but I need a way to add data into a new field of my meta.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Starting out, want to add some simple changesSo here’s where I’m at now:
First of all, I’ve changed the layout on my site so it doesn’t matter anymore if this text I want to add is in the comic pane or just added as a widget to the “beneath the comic” section. So I’m working on trying to add this as a widget.I’ve got a widget created; I’ve been looking at the widgets that come with comicpress and since I don’t need any customized options it is a pretty simple thing. I’ve tested it out as a proof-of-concept, and while it “works,” currently it only adds a static piece of text in the desired format. It does not have any functionality to retrieve any specific text.
So now I have to get it so that it displays the text I want for each page. Either I’d have to create some new file to store this data, and have it grab it from there, or I have to figure out how to add this new piece of data to the meta. Since I don’t know quite how to do either I’m leaning toward the meta.
First of all, even the most complex widgets I’ve seen do not have any more than the basic functions in them. So logically the functions they are calling are placed somewhere else. I do not know where this somewhere else is. I would guess it will be in the files I need to add to the plugin directory.
Next I’m going to have to figure out how to add a new field to the post’s meta. This also includes being able to add the data to that field. I found the files in the Comic Press Manager that build the page I see when I edit a post, and I’m tempted to try to add a new entry field right into that file, but then I won’t be able update comicpress normally.
I’m looking at the hovertext code so as to mimic that, and for the most part I see functions that do what I need. Displaycomic.php shows how to retrieve the data I need to display. In the Manager I have an example of a field that will receive the data, and I *think* I found where it actually saves this data. But before I can start copying these functions and tweaking them to handle different data, I need to know how I’m supposed to arrange this all within a new plugin. Before I can ask any competent questions about actual problems I am having, I need to know how to build the file I need.
I’m worried that it is simpler than just creating a new php file and dumping it into the right folder. I mean, how does the system know that it needs to use my new code?
Nearly every plug-in I take a look at to better understand the format I need to use is in no way formatted, by which i mean there are maybe five line breaks in the entire file so I can’t read it in my text editor. I’d like to think that I’m competent enough to follow some examples so that I can understand how to build this, but dang if it ain’t working out that way.
(I’d try some experiments but I have to leave now.)
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Starting out, want to add some simple changesOkay, I finally found a page of documentation for writing plug-ins, but there’s still a fair amount that I am unsure of.
The first thing is to find the proper hook to have my text appear where it needs to be. If I have the plug-in automatically add this extra data into the comic pane, then I’d need some hook that puts my additions directly into the comic pane. But this is of course something specific to the ComicPress theme, and so I can’t find it in the regular WordPress hooks.
But alternatively I could just have this created as a widget, and thus it would be something I could add into any formal section of my page. But I don’t see anything in the documentation that talks about widgets at all. Wouldn’t you create new widgets by adding plug-ins? But I see nothing that details how to do this.The next thing I still don’t understand is how to create something that displays specific data according to the date of the post.
I found a page in the documentation that shows how to use meta functions, which are designed to retrieve/modify specific meta elements within a post. That would be useful, but I would need to create my own new element, I think, and store that into the database somewhere.I’m still new here, and I do not see how to do this.