Using Pages in 1.3

Hello
in admin :
1- you create a page
2- you save it
3- you go to “manage page” and then you have the usaual 3 links edit/view/delete
The view link is the url of the page.
The page system updates automatically the .htaccess file so you don’y need to manage that manually
If you page is supposed to contain php code :
1- you create the php file using the skeleton of the index.php file in your template and you add at the very beginning of the file
<?php
/* Template Name: NAME_OF_THE_PAGE
2- you create a page but you don’t fill the content, instead you choose your php file in the “template” menu
The page system is a very powerfull feature of 1.3
Hope this helps
Luc

Now here’s the 30 million dollar question. I want page that has a specific formatting to it. Say for example I want all the text to go in a column on the right and an image on the left.
The thing is it’s different from the main template, so I make a new php file like you said above etc.
Now I want the text I write in the page edit section of the wp control panel to show up in my specially formatted php file.
What code do I include in the php file I created that will call all the text I’ve written in the page in the wordpress control panel relating to that particular page?
it’s not
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
I’ve already tried that.

How about

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="post">
<div class="entry">
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

d’oh. Thanks alphaoide ??

@all
Thank you for help,
I’ve got one more question:
I want to make a navbar with links to my pages. But I want it to be automatically updated each time I edit or add page.
So I checked how wordpress does that.
In wp-admin/edit-pages.php file there is php code that gets pages record from table containg all posts. (pages as I know now are static posts)

global $wpdb;
if (isset($user_ID) && ('' != intval($user_ID))) {
$posts = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'static' AND post_author = $user_ID");
} else {
$posts = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'static'");
...
foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp();
<?php the_title() ?>
<?php the_author() ?></td>
<?php the_time('Y-m-d g:i a'); ?></td>
" rel="permalink" class="edit"><?php _e('View'); ?>

Modifiying that code I can generate dynamically menu to my pages. But it isn’t elegant way – or maybe it’s the only way to do what I want?
Maciek Ku??, ibex.pl

maciekkus – a more elegant way would be to take that code and convert it into a plugin. Then in the menu, jsut call the function to display the menu where you want it.
Tg

Hi. just wondering can I use this “page” function to make my site menu?
I mean, create for each section of my site a PAGE and link it as a menu on the front page?
T.I.A

@techgnome
That’s the challenge ??
@anonymous:
It works for me. But I’ll try to convert it to plugin (don’t know how yet, but I will try ??
Maciek

There is or will be a built-in function to get all pages.

I kinda figured the devs would get to it at some point. There’s a func call for everything else in WP.
Tg

@mdawaffe
thanks for the quickie link

Luc said:

in admin :
1- you create a page
2- you save it
3- you go to “manage page” and then you have the usaual 3 links edit/view/delete
The view link is the url of the page.

Okay. So far, so good. Oh, and I’m running 1.3A4.

The page system updates automatically the .htaccess file so you don’y need to manage that manually

I didn’t have a .htacccess, so I created an empty .htaccess and made it 666.

If you page is supposed to contain php code :
1- you create the php file using the skeleton of the index.php file in your template and you add at the very beginning of the file
<?php
/* Template Name: NAME_OF_THE_PAGE
2- you create a page but you don’t fill the content, instead you choose your php file in the “template” menu

Okay, this part has me flummoxed. I copied public_html/index.php to public_html/delicious.php and deleted the bits that I don’t want – leaving just the three include‘s for the headers and the footer.
I put

/*
Template Name: Delicious
Template URI: https://kharris.dotgeek.org/delicious.php
*/

as the 2nd-5th lines in delicious.php.
I go back to Page->edit and don’t see anything other than “Default Template” on the “Page Template” menu.
Where did I go wrong?
thanks-in-advance,
kevin

The following is a sample of page template found in kubrick 1.3. The filename is called archives.php

<?php /*
Template Name: Archives
*/
?>
<?php include "header.php"; ?>
<div id="content" class="widecolumn">
<?php include "searchform.php"; ?>
<h2>Archives by Month:</h2>

<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>

<h2>Archives by Subject:</h2>

<?php wp_list_cats(); ?>

</div>
<?php include "footer.php"; ?>

I’m still doing something wrong.

As I mentioned in my earlier post, I’ve got a bare-bones copy of index.php called delicious.php.

The first 7 lines of delicious.php look like:

<?php
/* Template Name: Delicious
*/
/* Don"t remove this line. */ require("./wp-blog-header.php");
include(ABSPATH . "/wp-header.php");
?>

The rest is just stuff that I know works because I can see
https://kharris.dotgeek.org/delicious.php

just fine.

I still don”t get anything more than “Default Template” when I try to set page template in Manage->Pages->edit.

Should the new template go somewhere other than bloginfo("url")?

thanks…again,

kevin