Add Navigation to Attachment Page in 2011

  • Resolved drewehart

    (@atlantislabs)


    13 years, 7 months ago

    I am using the 2011 theme to post mostly galleries. I have the photos open in the attachment page template. I would like to do two things:

    1. Have the attachment page open in a new window; and

    2. Add a button/navigation near the forward and backward button at the top of the attachment page template to go back to the original post for that particular gallery – so this would have to be a dynamic link that involves coding I don’t know – NOT simply a link Home.

    I know very little coding, but can follow instructions well – any help would be appreciated.

    Many thanks in advance,

    Drew

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  • Do not edit the Twenty Eleven theme. It is the default WordPress 3.2 theme and having access to an unedited version of the theme is vital when dealing with a range of site issues.

    Create a child theme for your customisations. Once your child theme is active, we should be able to help with the customisation.

    Thread Starter drewehart

    (@atlantislabs)

    So let’s say I already modified the theme – I should be able to delete it, reinstall it then make a child theme, right?

    Thread Starter drewehart

    (@atlantislabs)

    Or should I start from scratch and reinstall WordPress – I have done a lot of non-theme work I don’t want to redo?

    Thread Starter drewehart

    (@atlantislabs)

    Okay, I think it worked. I deleted 2011, then re-loaded it. That seemed to remove my changes. I then created a child theme. I am assuming anything I want to change, I can just copy over to the child, and then make the changes. So in this case I want to change the attachment template, so I copy that into my child theme, and then make the changes – any help with the changes would be appreciated (adding the navigation item) and thanks to esmi for setting me on the right track:)

    I am assuming anything I want to change, I can just copy over to the child, and then make the changes.

    Correct. And your changes won’t be over-written when you upgrade the parent theme. Creating a modified attachment.php in your child theme will take care of #2. With regard to #1, I think that you’re going to have to start looking for a plugin that might launch new attachment windows for you. FWIW, that kind of behaviour on a site would drive me nuts if I was using it. Just something to keep in mind…

    Thread Starter drewehart

    (@atlantislabs)

    You are absolutely right about the new pages for links – I went through and changed all those – that would drive me crazy – so now I just need to figure out had to add a navigation button to the attachment page to go back to the post page.

    Try:

    <p class="posted-under"><?php _e('Posted under');?> <a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post->post_parent); ?>" rev="attachment"><?php echo get_the_title($post->post_parent); ?></a></p>

    Bear in mind that this links back to the attachment’s parent posts – not the post that the visitor previously viewed – if you know what I mean…

    Thread Starter drewehart

    (@atlantislabs)

    I am looking to attach to the attachment’s parent’s post, so I will give this a try – thanks again.

    Thread Starter drewehart

    (@atlantislabs)

    Thanks esmi – you are awesome – the code works perfectly!

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