suntower

Hello Frank,

Q1. What we want is for clients to be able to visit a particular page with a picture of a Staff person and then make an appointment with -that- person. The Staff ID should be pre-selected and the choice of times/services be limited to only that person. We will need a separate page for each Staff person. My hope was that the APCAL shortcode had parameters for Staff ID.

Also: What are the options for localization (spellings) and CSS? I’m sure you realise that there are -numerous- spelling mistakes in the product. We also would need to be able to customise the styles to fit our own company theme.

Also: Is there a way to book an appointment that does NOT require ‘approval’? None of our staff will need that. Also, the text sent to clients will be confusing so we need to be able to change that. Clients will not know whether their appointment is ‘real’ or not.

Yes. I must be getting blind… impatient… or ADHD in my old age. If you were to look at the two sites, you’d see that one calls a file ‘promoslider.js’ and the one that doesn’t work is ‘promotion_slider.js’. Both were run through the Admin update service and registered as version 3.51 and the first few lines of both are the same. But at a certain point inside they contain -very- different js. So the older file promoslider.js works within this theme (themeforest websplash) and the larger file (promotion_slider.js) does -not-… I guess because it contains that .replace() method.

I contacted the theme author and he sent me an ‘update’ in which he simply included a minified jQuery 1.8… rather than re-writing to call jQuery from the WP core (which I thought was best practice.) So I am recommending that my client move away from this theme.

Thanks. Sorry to give you a wild goose chase. I appreciate your following up… one of the reasons I recommend this plug to clients.

Best,

—JC

After I wrote this, I found that I could save myself some real time by manipulating the db directly. I’m comfortable doing this, but I caution others to think twice and BACKUP before doing so. I learned (by somewhat painful trial and error) how permalinks and revisions are stored–hence the reason for all my ‘phantom’ permalinks.

The ‘trick’ (if there is one) is just to realise that if you are getting dupes it’s because every draft/revision/or post of any type might share that same permalink (name). You just have to search by that field and get rid of the dupes… Again, you run the risk of de-normalising your data (creating orphans) if you’re not careful.

Good idea.

Can you point me to where the code which ‘automatically’ invokes dataTable is loaded (if you check the box) so I see how the plug-in does it?

Thanks,

—JC

That’s what I thought. But I’m still confused… So I’ll tax yer patience once more to ask again why we need the add_action() callback to my_function() just to enqueue the script.

Why is that better than just writing:

if(is_page( 'Foobar' ) )
  wp_enqueue_script('custom-script',get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/custom_script.js',	array('jquery')	);

Aren’t they both functionally much the same? IOW: why is my example -bad- and yours -good-?

Thanks again,

—JC

Wow. Thanks for the snappy response!

Please forgive my ignorance, but a quick follow-up: What is the advantage of the code you wrote above over:

if(is_page( 'Foobar' ) )
  wp_enqueue_script('custom-script',get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/custom_script.js',	array('jquery')	);

IOW: Why does one need the call to add_action() ?

THANKS!

—JC

OK, I figured it out… it’s a conceptual thing. I thought the filter was tested once when the -page- was loaded. But in fact, the function fires every time an excerpt is printed to the screen. IOW: it thinks the ‘current page’ is the one of it’s post.

What I want to do is display some post excerpts as part of a larger page (Latest News!) on one or (FAQs!) on another.

So for me, the thing to do was test for the page_template.

Thanks for the replies.

—JC

Can you enqueue a script in a PHP template -before- or -after- get_header()? I thought they needed to be included in functions.php or in a plug-in file. Am I wrong?

—JC