phil2016

Thanks.

I didn’t realise I needed to edit the template php. But it was fairly simple, I just copied the script for the title and pasted it below, then updated the css and it’s working now! Fantastic, thanks for your quick help!

https://www.bookzio.com/sample-blog-post-xyzabc/

Do you have any idea what I should search on Stackoverflow? I’ve looked but not found anything but I’m not sure if I’m using the right keywords to get the kind of results I need. Thanks again.

Thank you for commenting, @sc0ttkclark.

I’ll take another look at Pods, thank you. Last time I looked at it was about a year ago, and that’s when I seem to remember seeing something like this as one of its features. But, like I said, I was concerned when I looked again receently and couldn’t see any new tuts, etc.

But if you are updating this year then it’s clearly still an ongoing project so I’m glad to hear that and will give it a go.

FYI What specifically deterred me was — when I went to the Pods website and clicked on ‘Tutorials’ then ‘Learn Pods Basics From OSTraining’ — the second video in that series instructs that to use Pods we must install the plugins:
#1 Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields
#2 Pods Frontier Auto Template

But when I tried to do that the #2 plugin wasn’t available and I couldn’t find anything about it on your site, or Googling. So I realised that tut was probably dated, then when I saw all the vids on the Pods channel were also old I realised I would probably get stuck if things were missing, etc.

As a Pods beginner, what sequence of tutorials or documents would you recommend for me to follow to get Pods working for me — in addition to the vid you linked to? If the ‘Learn Pods Basics From OSTraining’ relies on the ‘Pods Frontier Auto Template’ what should I use instead, or don’t you think that training should be followed any longer?

Thanks again for helping solve this problem.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by phil2016.

@bcworkz Thank you very much!

I had no idea I could do that with the Classic Editor plugin. I’ve been messing around for hours trying to make that script work and all the time I had a plugin that could do it. Thank you.

Now, just from curiosity — is that the ‘best’ plugin to do this job? I know there are others, but I just tend to stick with what’s already there, but I thought I’d ask. Thanks again for your help.

Yes, but for my usage I would need the ‘Scale’ package, which is $149 per month and therefore way outside my price range, sadyly.

Thanks again @alanfuller

Yes, when I write ‘plugin’ I’m actually meaning ‘custom-built plugin’ and I’m not thinking there might already be one I can get hold of off-the-shelf.

And, yes, I assumed that any potential solution would require some deep custom coding, but thanks for the clarification.

To be honest, I wasnt’ even sure if this would be possible, within a site, without going to a 3rd party SAAS or running a separate installation to do this. But maybe that’s what you mean too.

I guess it wouldn’t matter, though, either way. I have a decent (dedicated) server so I could probably host a solution either within the site installation or as a separate thing.

Thanks again for your help — it’s given me a lot of food for thought.

If you know any other libraries or resources I could check out, I’d appreciate that too — but you’ve already given me a lot more useful feedback than I expected. So thanks again.

EDIT: The 3rd party solution I referred to was bannerbear ( https://www bannerbear com ), which is kind of what got me thinking this way. Although their sub is a bit pricey for me and I would have to create automations to send to it, then import from it, which would themselves be quite extensive, so doing it inhouse seems like a better approach, if it’s possible.

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by phil2016.

Hello @wpallimport

yes, it does clear up the matter, but over a week late.

I run an online business also, and no customer ever has to wait more than 6-12 hours for a reply.

In fact, after giving up on getting either a prompt or helpful reply from you either here or elsewhere, I turned to Upwork and paid someone to help.

So, yes, the [date(“Y-m-d”)] is the solution I am using, but have been using it for at least a week now, before you found time in your busy schedule.

In case you’re also considering getting around to any of my other support requests, don’t bother, the developer I paid has answered them all.

Like I said before, it’s a great plugin but the documentation and support are appalling. Some of the worst I’ve experienced.

You take weeks to reply — and your video tutorials are years old (some as old as 10 years). At the price you charge for your plugin you could at least show a little respect for your paying customers by providing up to date ‘help’. But it’s clear you don’t care.

Shame on you.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by phil2016.

Thanks.

Thank you for your reply. That makes sense!

Do you know of a good tutorial / article which describes this process in detail?

I haven’t yet found an article that describes exactly what I am trying to do, manually.

Following your post, I have compressed and downloaded the contents of my Public directory for the source site (when it was on my desktop I went into the uploads folder and deleted a few 100s of uploads I don’t need, and some log files and backups from plugins)

Then I exported the source site Database.

I guess it’s a simple matter of uploading the public directory files to the new account’s public directory, and importing the sql files into the new account’s phpmyadmin.

But it’s the next part which I’m less clear about.

I know I have to update the config file with the new site name / username / password / DB details, etc — but what else do I need to consider.

What considerations do I need to keep in mind, if I’m using the site for domain1.com and installing it on the account for domain2.com ?

Many thanks.