Multiple content on page template?

  • Hi there, I’ve had a look at things like Flutter and Pods, but they’re not overly noob-friendly and seem too powerful [read:complicated] for what I want to do (I’m still on loops and echos with PHP, so I apologise for my noobish-ness).

    I’d like two blocks of content on my page so that when you go to edit a page there are 2 wysiwyg text edit boxes and I can have one block of content appear at the top of the page and the other appear at the bottom and that they be editable in seperate boxes in the page editor.

    I know clever things can be done with excerpt tags, but I’m building this for bit of a gung-ho user who will delete things they don’t understand, so it needs to be fool-proof.

    Can anyone suggest the best course of action to take?

    If anyone can help I would be enourmously grateful.

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  • You could use a theme option. I dont know that you can do it with a wysiwyg text edit box though.

    Maybe with includes? Make a page template that strips out everything but the content area?

    You know more than I do about PHP – let me know when/if you figure it out! ??

    On edit – you could make one of the extra content areas a dynamic sidebar and use this widget:

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wysiwyg-text-widget/

    It says it works up to 2.7; I haven’t tried it myself.

    Thread Starter weaselandalf

    (@weaselandalf)

    Thank you so much for your response, it’s sometimes so hard to to talk to someone on these forums.

    I can do a little PHP, bnothing major and I’m willing to work things out for myself, but the real stumbling point is creating something that anyone can use later on – even if they’re not technically minded.

    I’ll have a look at the sidebar plugin and see if it could be adapted…

    Thanks, if I do discover anything I’ll definately let you and other people know,as this seems to be a common problem when using WordPress as a CMS.

    It’s even harder when nobody answers your question! I try to come here at least a couple of times a week and answer those questions that I can.

    I’ve learned to search the codex, the forums, and include Google as well. Still having fits with some aspects, but I’ve learned so much from just theming this software – I love it!

    Cheer up – that which is learned hardest is learned the best. Somebody said that once, I’m sure, but I’m saying it now! ??

    Hi weaselandalf,

    If you haven’t found this already, you can do this with the Page Blocks plugin – https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/page-blocks/

    I’ve tried the page-blocks and it’s a bit wonky – especially if you want to format blocks differently with your CSS (ie. different text, colors, backgrounds for left blocks vs. right blocks, etc.).

    Also – I noticed that these blocks acted really weird and arbitrary. When you change one, it changes for EVERY page that the particular block appears on. When you hide one on one page – it hides them everywhere…

    They seem more static than dynamic.

    Any other suggestions/plugins/hacks??

    TeckniX

    (@tecknix)

    Just wondering if you ever found a good solution?

    The only thing I could think of, would be to create a new field in the DB and create the extra content editor – this would mean that each page gets the extra box though – not sure if this what you were after.

    I’m just starting on WP but if I get anywhere with it, I’ll let you know. Maybe this is worthy of learning how to create plugins? ??

    Trendwerk

    (@trendwerk)

    If you are still wondering about this, I have just released a plugin who does exactly this.

    The developer can specify where more content has to be positioned in his template and there will appear wysiwyg editors on the edit page for each of these "multiple content blocks".

    This is exactly the name of the plugin: "Multiple content blocks".

    Plugin site: https://plugins.trendwerk.nl/
    Wordpress site: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/multiple-content-blocks/
    Direct link: https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/multiple-content-blocks.zip

    I’m having the exact same problem, many thanks for all the tips.

    It’s a godsend!

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