nearlythere

i wish when we solved problems we’d finish off by linking to where we found the solution, or return and post the solution in these threads.

*sigh*

i just wanted to echo: “wow”

eye candy! and looks like fun to play with.

also, have you seen this plugin?

https://guff.szub.net/2005/01/31/get-author-profile/

i remember reading something about nicknames and author names and the ensuing problems.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/27554/page/2

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/32352

i haven’t done any tests myself.

making some progress.

i installed this great plugin: Category Highlight
https://adahas.com/work/cathighlight/
and i changed line 45 to have the class="current_page_item" so it’s the same as the pages

i wanted to be able to colour code within a section, and it’s children sections. lucky for me, my pages and categories are separate.

parent page (orange)
– child page
– child page

parent page (blue)
– child page
– child page

parent category (green)
– child category
– child category

parent category (purple)
– child category
– child category

this is where i am so far, but it’s very sloppy since i don’t know PHP, i just hack away at it.
https://pastebin.com/398725

right now it’s working very well, and highlighting the right page/category.

anyway, this might be useful for anyone with same set up.

i know that all too well. thank you for pointing out the cruel yet obvious, *sniff*. honest, i’ve been all up and down this topic, and searched well. but thank you TechGnome.

i noticed davidsky in several places trying to get similiar functionality to having current_page_item with categories, and i wondered if he made any progress. so that’s why i was writing him. to see what he resolved.

(i’m using this plugin, https://adahas.com/work/cathighlight/ btw)

davidsky, how did you get along with trying to get the same current_page_item for category?

any progress?

if you’re using the nickname i don’t know why it’s still getting the authorname with the hyphen…

ah- ok.

well. i’m stuck then. i can see what is controlling the selection of the ‘content’ area.

in the HTML of wp-admin i see the text area id ID’d ‘content’:
<textarea rows="9" cols="40" name="content" tabindex="4" id="content"></textarea

and then referred to in embedded javascript:
edCanvas = document.getElementById('content');

the title area is ID’d ‘title’:
<input type="text" name="post_title" size="30" tabindex="1" value="" id="title" />

but if you changed the edCanvas to ‘title’ it won’t work for ‘content’ – i’m stumped.

okay, since it is working with the post listing, i am lost..

this is a silly question, but in your wp-admin area, do you have user information for ‘website’ ‘profile’ filled out for that author?

go to somewhere like: yoursite.com/wp-admin/user-edit.php

can you try linking to author page via

<?php the_author_posts_link('nickname'); ?>

just to see if it works differently.

i don’t understand what you mean… you want the post title to appear in italics? so you want your title of post to wrap Title ? so you want to target that text field.

i would recommend a use of CSS instead, then you won’t have to fiddle when you upgrade. i think it’s more sematically correct too.

for example, you say 90% of your posts are books, and need italics for titles. i assume you’re using a category called “books”, and we’ll pretend there’s a category called “other”

you can tag your post title with the category… in this example, the title is an h3

<h3 class="<?php the_category(' ') ?>"> whatever title code </h3>

then in your CSS you can have a special class:

h3.books {
font-style: italic;
}

other category titles will appear as normal!

hello HapaxLegomen,

your code is getting garbled, so i can’t review it. either makes sure to wrap lines in backticks or use a service like https://pastebin.com/

can you send any links to your example website?

i am using the author template with success. this is the code i am using for my author.php, see https://pastebin.com/397539 (copy and paste into new .php document, and save to your theme folder as author.php )

i had some trouble with my author names though, so i link to the author page like this:
<?php the_author_posts_link('nickname'); ?>

and this goes to pages like this:
https://japanese.nearlythere.com/author/heather/

i made a LIST of authors (maybe what you’re calling “membres “) using an custom template, uploaded to my theme directoy, which i called “Authors Template”; then i created a new page, called it “authors” then selected:
Page Template: [Authors Template] from pull down menu under entry text field.

this is the code for my authors template: https://pastebin.com/397543 (copy and paste into new .php document, and save to your theme folder as author-list.php )

please send links, it’s easier to help!

*phew* i’m glad that worked out!

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not that i can! but i’m trying ??

katie1 – i was always having similiar trouble using those backticks, until i was pointed to pastebin:

https://pastebin.com/

you go there, paste in your code, and link to it. it’s wonderful wonderful!

i found your post here because i am searching for more info on making a menu, based on what i read in the codex:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Creating_Horizontal_Menus
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Dynamic_Menu_Highlighting

looks like you sorted yours out on your site?