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Hi,

I hope you checked the links I sent you?
In the EK 2016 blog page (which uses a custom page template for all Euro 2016 pages), you should have seen 3 blog posts.
When you click on the link ‘Lees Verder’ for one of the 3 posts, the post is opened in the standard single post template, loosing all context with the special Euro 2016 section of the website.

Once the single blog post opens, the user no longer sees the Euro 2016 navigation menus. This complicates navigation for the common user. Try to look at this through the eyes of a user who is only interested in the Euro 2016 section of the website. When they click on a blog post in that section they want to stay in that section. Perhaps after reading a full post, they want to read another post, but the navigation to the main Euro 2016 blag page is no longer visible. They would have to click on the back arrow in their browser, which is a bit an inconvenient and not user friendly way of navigating.

To answer your question, I don’t want to overwrite the standard single post template; I simple want the blog posts (from the category Euro 2016) to use their own custom post template.

In a standard post (via New Post), it is possible to choose the single post template: full width, left or right sidebar, no sidebar.
When I create a blog post (via Add Blog from your plugin menu), I don’t see the option to choose a template. Just compare to the standard Add Post admin panel with the admin panel used by your plugin to create a new blog post.

Maybe if I could send you a screen capture of the admin panels, it would be clearer for you? How can I send you a screen capture?

Hi,

This is a direct link to the blog page on my website: https://www.persawa.be/euro-2016-frankrijk/euro-2016-blogpagina/

You will notice that this page sits within a section of the website, dedicated to the coming Euro 2016 football event. It was my intention to show all pages related to this section in a similar layout with their own sidebar.
However, as you stated in your answer above, the single blog post is using the standard single post template that comes with the theme I’m using (a child theme from Dazzling).
I would like to overrule that template for the blog posts related to Euro 2016. The Euro 2016 which should not appear in the standard blog page, should be easily recognizable as being part of the Euro 2016 section.

At this time the Euro 2016 section is almost ready, but not yet publicly announced. That’s why the links to this section are still somewhat hidden.
You will notice that the pages not related to Euro 2016 use the standard template that came with my theme.
This is a link to the ‘standard’ blog page: https://www.persawa.be/persawa-blog/

Hi,

Maybe my question wasn’t clear to you. Let me try to elaborate.

From your answer, I understand that you are solely talking about the blog page where the shortcode is added. That is in fact a regular page and it is indeed possible to change the template to be full width, right or left sidebar or even a custom template, which I have implemented. It’s not this page I’m having a problem with. The blog page is using my custom page template.

I’m having a problem with the template which is used for a single post (after clicking the ‘Read More’ button on the blog page.
It should be possible to assign a post template for a new blog post (via Add Blog from your plugin menu). Only if that is possible I can create a consistent page layout for both the blog page and the pages where a single blog post is shown.

Regards,
Patrick

Hi,

Thanks for looking into this and providing me with a code example to replace the avatar with the featured image.
It’s not what I was hoping to do. Probably my theme doesn’t support the featured image like twentytwelve does.

If I can’t have the featured image in the idea post, it might have been nice to see them in the widget ‘IdeaStream Popular Ideas’. The widget ‘IdeaStream Tops’ shows the user’s avatar, but the popular ideas stream doesn’t show anything.

Any suggestion on how to accomplish this?

Regards,
Patrick

Thx, I know how to create a template with a sidebar; I did this already to for pages.

So, it would not be too difficult to create another template to use for the blog pages. But after doing that, it should be possible to assign the new template to the blog post page. For pages, I can choose the template I want to use: with sidebar left or right, without sidebar, full width or using my custom template.
However, in the admin page for the blog post, I can’t choose the template I want to use.

What I’m asking is actually: how can I assign the new template to the blogpost?

For standard posts, I can choose which template to use, but I can’t do that for the blog posts.

Sorry, for the delay. I’ve done some more testing and got it working now.
I was able to crete a few test blog messages and they seem to appear on the blog page.

I’m showing the new blog page in a section of the website where I use a different page template.
The blog posts are shown on the standard page template of my theme (which is a child theme of Dazzling), with a right sidebar containing the widgets I’m using for the standard part of my website.

However, I would like to have the blog posts on a different layout, with a different sidebar. Probably, I could code a post template file, similar to the one I created for pages, but on the admin screen for the blog posts, I don’t see a section where I could change the template to use for the blog post.
Please advice on how I could do this.

Unfortunately, it’s not the recaptcha version I was looking for (see above).

Ok, thanks Antoine, I saw the 2 extra fields in the Users admin page.

Since I don’t want users to mess around in the wordpress admin pages, this is not an option for me.
However, there is a paid add-on for WP User Manager which allows to add fields to the standard user registration form. Maybe it would be possible to pick up those 2 extra fields and place them on the WP User Manager Registration form in the frontside of the website.

Thanks for pointing that out, Antoine.

I put the following code to the function.php file of my child theme:

// don't use admin approval for league registration of new users
// just put them in the league they chose
add_filter( 'footballpool_new_user', function( $user_id, $league_id ) {
    update_user_meta( $user_id, 'footballpool_league', $league_id );
    update_user_meta( $user_id, 'footballpool_registeredforleague', $league_id );
    Football_Pool::update_user_custom_tables( $user_id, $league_id );
}, null, 2 );

Where can I see the option where the user can choose which pool he/she wants to play?
It doesn’t show in the /pool/ page.

Thx for the quick fix!

Yes, I’m using the Site Origin plugin.

wordpress 4.4.2
feature a page widget 2.0.8 which was released today

Maybe this setting was reset when I upgraded to the PRO version.

Anyway, I set it back on and tested again. Unfortunately, things are still not working.
You can have a look yourself here: https://www.persawa.be.

The search field is in the footer of the page. Type the keyword “Parijs” and if you wait a bit you will see a results list. Clicking on any of the results will open the targeted page. However, when you don’t wait for the results list and hit enter or return, or just click on the eyeglass, you will see only 2 results (instead of the 5 or so you could see before in the search result popup list.

I hope this narrows down the problem?

Hi pekos,

You are right, the shortcode can’t be used.
For my site, I’m also using the WP User Manager plugin to let user register/logon themselves from the frontend of the website. I also don’t want users to see the backend unless they are editors.

Anyway, the link which not logged in users see on the /pool/ page, leads them to the standard wordpress logon screen, not to the backend as it seems to be doing on your site. I don’t know what text you see appearing on that page. Mine is in Dutch; roughly translated, it would be be something like “you have to be subscribed and logged in to play in the pool.”, with the link to the logon screen on the words ‘logged in’.

I think I will just add my own link to my WP User Manager registration page and write some explanations on what users are supposed to do. I can reuse already existing code from another part of my website where I ask users to register.
Redirecting the logon link to the registration form doesn’t seem very logical to my users, especially nog if they already registered before. For already logged in users, I can hide the registration link; they don’t need to see that.

This plugin is really great, but – in my opinion – the user registration part and how users can decide in which pool they want to play is a bit weak. And as I stated before, the rules page gave me a different impression.

Best regards

shortcake –> shortcode (Click [fp-register]here[/fp-register] to register for this pool.)