themichaelglenn

Thanks. I actually did some more reading, and I found a really cool tutorial on how to create a tinyMCE plugin: Dissecting the WordPress TinyMCE Editor.

I have to say, I don’t understand all the code there, but I’m comfortable enough with copy and paste that I think I can use that to accomplish what I want. 🙂 (Which is cool, because just a few months ago I was intimidated by all this stuff, but now it’s *starting* to come easier!)

Perhaps if I’m successful in this attempt, I will read up more on actions and filters, and explore the idea of developing a companion plugin.

Holy smokes I think the example for using your own template is a bit over my head!

Anyway, let me see if I can do a better job explaining what I meant. I run a gaming site that’s split into three main sections: Games, Forums, and Blog.

Games – this is where all the game “pages” are. Pages are heirarchical (naturally), and the page with the “name of the game” is the top level parent. (For example, if the game was Final Fantasy, the top level parent page would be “final-fantasy.”)

Next, the child pages. Games that have child pages have something like the following:

Hints and Tips
Location Walkthrough
Skill List

Now, within each child page, there are pages that relate to that subject. So, if there’s a location walkthrough page called “Home Town,” it would under “final-fantasy/location-walkthrough/hometown.” Whereas a skill list for, let’s say, a black mage, would be “final-fantasy/skill-list/black-mage.”

Then of course there’s the bbPress forum, and the blog (which only contains “posts”). I assume those sections are self-explanatory.

What I was thinking in terms of my “Game” pages and your plugin, was that if someone is reading a forum topic or a blog post on “Final Fantasy,” it would be nice to have links to the Final Fantasy child pages, i.e.:

Hints and Tips
Location Walkthrough
Skill List

instead of random links to random Final Fantasy pages that could be anywhere in the hierarchy…

But, having installed your plugin and seen how it works with posts, forums and topics, I think I’d actually be just as happy if you could simply add support for “pages” – even if the result was a “random” list of related pages anywhere within the same taxonomy.

(I actually can sort of see how that could be better, anyway, because the exact pages the plugin would come up with would probably be more closely related to the specific forum topic or blog post… so my original thought may not have been all that great to begin with.)

I hope that makes it more clear, and that you can help me find a way to add page support to an otherwise perfect plugin.

Unfortunately I’m using the comments section for a paid “user reviews” plugin, so that’s not an option.

Beyond that, I don’t even know where to begin to search for the code that would allow for this kind of feature.

I’m sure I’m in way over my head on this one, but… short of taking the time to learn to code what I want, is there a way to take the basic “Tags” box that shows up on the post edit admin screen (or page edit, in this case), and make that box publicly accessible on the pages of my choosing? So that my logged in front end users can tag the page that way?

Or, do you know if any of the front end content submission plugins might allow something close to this?

If anyone can point me in the right direction I’d really appreciate it, but if the answer is “learn to code and then come back when you know what you’re doing,” well, I can accept that as well.

(Also, I just noticed that this question got posted in “Fixing WordPress,” but I’d meant to post it in “Developing with WordPress.” I don’t know if that matters, or if it can be moved between forums, or if it’s now forever stuck in the wrong place?)

• This reply was modified 8 years, 12 months ago by themichaelglenn. Reason: typo

Thanks, but I don’t entirely follow what you’ve written. (I just don’t have enough experience yet with WP or with PHP…)

I did find a way to do what I want, but I suspect the code could be neater. Right now, it’s all in my page.php and I imagine most of it should be moved to my functions.php but I’m not entirely sure.

This is what I’ve put in the Loop, right after get_template_part (oh, and I’m using a child theme of TwentySixteen, if that’s important):

To get the top level parent

global $post;
/* Get an array of Ancestors and Parents if they exist */
$parents = get_post_ancestors( $post->ID );
/* Get the top Level page->ID count base 1, array base 0 so -1 */ 
$id = ($parents) ? $parents[count($parents)-1]: $post->ID;
/* Get the parent and set the $class with the page slug (post_name) */
$parent = get_post( $id );

To ‘mark’ the first child, last child, and last grandchild

$page_childs = get_pages( 'child_of=' . $id . '&sort_column=menu_order&sort_order=ASC' );
$first_child = $page_childs[0];

$page_childs = get_pages( 'child_of=' . $id . '&sort_column=menu_order&sort_order=DESC' );
$last_child  = $page_childs[0]; 

$page_childs = get_pages( 'child_of=' . $last_child->ID . '&sort_column=menu_order&sort_order=DESC' );
$last_grandchild  = $page_childs[0];

To only show “Next” on the first child (but only if there are more children after it; otherwise, do nothing):

if ( get_the_ID() === (int) $first_child->ID &&  get_the_ID() === (int) $last_child->ID && (! has_children() )) {
} elseif ( get_the_ID() === (int) $first_child->ID ) {
getNext(); }

To show “Previous” on the last child, or “Previous” and “Next” if the last child has its own children:

elseif ( get_the_ID() === (int) $last_child->ID && (! has_children() )) {
getPrev(); } elseif ( get_the_ID() === (int) $last_child->ID && ( has_children() )) {
getPrev();
getNext(); }

in which case I want to show “Previous” on the last grandchild:

elseif ( get_the_ID() === (int) $last_grandchild->ID ) {
getPrev(); }

Then, finally, show “Previous” and “Next” on all pages in between:

else {
getPrev();
getNext(); } 

Then I put these functions at the bottom of my page, after the get_footer:

function has_children() {
	global $post;
	return count( get_posts( array('post_parent' => $post->ID, 'post_type' => $post->post_type) ) );
}

function getPrev(){
	$pagelist = get_pages('sort_column=menu_order&sort_order=asc');
	$pages = array();
	foreach ($pagelist as $page) {
	   $pages[] += $page->ID;
	}

	$current = array_search(get_the_ID(), $pages);
	$prevID = $pages[$current-1];
	$nextID = $pages[$current+1];
	
	echo '<div class="navigation">';
	
	if (!empty($prevID)) {
		echo '<div class="alignleft">';
		echo '<a href="';
		echo get_permalink($prevID);
		echo '"';
		echo 'title="';
		echo get_the_title($prevID); 
		echo '">&laquo; ';
		echo get_the_title($prevID);
		echo '</a>';
		echo "</div>";
	}
}

(I also have a function for getNext(), but it’s just getPrev() with $nextID instead of $prevID.)

• This reply was modified 8 years, 12 months ago by themichaelglenn. Reason: minor correction

Awesome I will plan on trying it out tomorrow and let you know how it goes. Thanks for the fast response!

Hi,

The image shows up in the post editor, and if I press the “back” button on my browser (after submitting the post and seeing the warning message), it takes me back to the editor, with my message still intact – but, the message has also been posted to the forum.

Also if I navigate back to http://rpginsanity.com/beta/forums/ and then find the same topic again, all the posts and images etc. are there.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by themichaelglenn.