Featured Pages Widget: "After Content" Error

Hi,

Apologies, it was set to private. It should work now. Here it is again: https://picasaweb.google.com/109402086603161483632/January82016?authkey=Gv1sRgCM_cseDF7N7K_AE#6237597911613668898

It is not clear what is FP Widget area. You have not enabled Featured Pages. So, where are you trying to add content? Or is this what you wanted to do first with that hook? I am slightly lost

On the picture I provided for you:

I have the CSS set according to this:

add_action(‘__before_content’ , ‘display_my_fp_widget’);
function display_my_fp_widget() {
if ( ! tc__f(‘__is_home’) )
return;
global $wp_query;
if ($wp_query->current_post == 0) {
dynamic_sidebar(‘fp_widgets’);
}
}

The picture on the top left corner is actually the thumbnail that corresponds to the text at the bottom {the foodie guide to Turkish cuisine). That text is the title of the latest post because I have the home page set to latest posts.

The are that says “where I’ve been” and the map underneath it is a featured pages widget. For some reason, anytime I try to add content to the FP widget, the content shows up between the title and the thumbnail of the latest post.

What I would like is for the FP widget to stretch so that the all the latest posts (including the title and thumbnail) is below anything I insert into the FP widget. I imagine the issue has to do with customizing the widget size. I’m just not sure how to do that.

Does that make sense?

Oh yes.
Then probably, you can try to hook into this filter. Something like this. I have added some text in place of the map.

add_filter('tc_post_list_content' , 'display_my_fp_widget');
function display_my_fp_widget($content) {
if ( ! tc__f('__is_home') )
return;
global $wp_query;
if ($wp_query->current_post == 0) {
return "The pioneers of the teaching of science imagined that its
    introduction into education would remove the conventionality,
    artificiality, and backward-lookingness which were characteristic;
    of classical studies, but they were gravely disappointed. So, too, in
    their time had the humanists thought that the study of the classical
    authors in the original would banish at once the dull pedantry and
    superstition of mediaeval scholasticism. The professional
    schoolmaster was a match for both of them, and has almost
    managed to make the understanding of chemical reactions as dull
    and as dogmatic an affair as the reading of Virgil's Aeneid.".$content;
} 

return $content;

}

Hi,

I will try this out, thanks! But what do I put instead of all that text if I want to use the featured pages widget to add content?

Oh, you are right.
This might probably give what you want. Hook into __before_article action.

add_action('__before_article' , 'display_my_fp_widget');
function display_my_fp_widget() {
if ( ! tc__f('__is_home') )
return;
global $wp_query;
if ($wp_query->current_post == 0) {
dynamic_sidebar('fp_widgets');
}
}

When you say hook into _before_article action, what does that mean, exactly? I just copied and pasted what’s in the gray area into my php file and it caused a server error.

I mean, instead of __before_content, use __before_article. Otherwise, the code given (before I proposed the filter option with text) is the same.

Got it. That worked. Thanks so much for your help and patience with all of this!

Glad that it worked for you Sally. ??