wordpress question for the experts.

[Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life]

Is there any existing type of widget setups where i can display different code in a block of my menu for each associated post? Like a quick product review box? Better if it's tag based to flexibly integrate with my design.

[NoWhErE]

I think what you're talking about is Head Space.

Go to Plugins.

click on Add New

then search for Head Space.

I think that whats you're looking for.

[Bird]

I think what you're talking about is Head Space.

Go to Plugins.

click on Add New

then search for Head Space.

I think that whats you're looking for.

That sig cracks me up...

[harvey]

I think what you're talking about is Head Space.

Go to Plugins.

click on Add New

then search for Head Space.

I think that whats you're looking for.

well, yes, but for what he wants he'd need to load different instances of the same plugin/widget, which would be a pin in the ass and an unnecessary load in the server and database.

I think the best and faster way would be either custom fields or customize the theme to import data via XML.

ie, I finished a couple weeks ago a shopping cart that integrates WP with a 3rd party script and it has exactly that feature (different data for each product). That was done with a couple custom fields. Now I'm working on a multi webcam portal/community that loads info with different XML parsers and renders every 3rd party stuff with the look of the site and it works amazingly well, so I bet that would be the correct approach.

This being said, I'm not sure if I understand the question 100%

[fris]

Is there any existing type of widget setups where i can display different code in a block of my menu for each associated post? Like a quick product review box? Better if it's tag based to flexibly integrate with my design.

Best to make a shortcode to do this.

[Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life]

Best to make a shortcode to do this.

huh? i'm lost on that one...


what i need is to be able to include a specific piece of html for eachpost into the design, outside of the loop. like in my sidebar.

could i say, drop it into the excerpt. and in my single.php drop the_excerpt tags outside of the loop? does that work? can i create a second loop in single.php to show my extra html as the excerpt? would that work?

i want to include a little review in my sidebar for the site related to each post i make.

[fris]

ya you can do more than 1 loop in single.php, hit me on icq i will try and do it for you, 704-299

[Jdoughs]

I would say use custom fields like Harvey mentioned, then just call the custom fields on each post or page sidebar, or menu, wherever you want them.

[harvey]

huh? i'm lost on that one...


what i need is to be able to include a specific piece of html for eachpost into the design, outside of the loop. like in my sidebar.

could i say, drop it into the excerpt. and in my single.php drop the_excerpt tags outside of the loop? does that work? can i create a second loop in single.php to show my extra html as the excerpt? would that work?

i want to include a little review in my sidebar for the site related to each post i make.

pffft, I thought you already had the content, hence the xml thing. If you still need to write it just do this: in your sidebar, include the following code

<div id="some-name"><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "myreview", $single = true); ?></div>

And in your posts add a custom field called myreview with the text you want. And that's it, your problem solved in 2 easy steps (I recommend you to add a text field area for that custom code so it's easy to see what you write, you can edit functions.php or grab one of several existing plugins to do it).

PS: since you will want this only in single.php pages, be sure to either call a sidebar2.php (with the same content as sidebar.php PLUS the review) or call the review outside the sidebar code and adjust the placement of the div. I recommend you the first approach. Of course you can load the sidebar.php with conditionals (if single.php load something) but it seems to me you'll have more trouble this way

[grumpy]

this is what i call expert advice

pffft, I thought you already had the content, hence the xml thing. If you still need to write it just do this: in your sidebar, include the following code

<div id="some-name"><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "myreview", $single = true); ?></div>

And in your posts add a custom field called myreview with the text you want. And that's it, your problem solved in 2 easy steps (I recommend you to add a text field area for that custom code so it's easy to see what you write, you can edit functions.php or grab one of several existing plugins to do it).

PS: since you will want this only in single.php pages, be sure to either call a sidebar2.php (with the same content as sidebar.php PLUS the review) or call the review outside the sidebar code and adjust the placement of the div. I recommend you the first approach. Of course you can load the sidebar.php with conditionals (if single.php load something) but it seems to me you'll have more trouble this way

[harvey]

this is what i call expert advice

ha ha, far from an expert, and not even close to Fris for sure, but this was just an easy one. Thanx for the kind words anyway