Display the ‘Issue Description’?

  • Can I make the ‘issue description’ display on Issue Pages? Preferably just under the title. Some issues have a particular theme running through all the articles which I’d like to mention on the Issue page before the articles.

    I’m sure it’s a pretty simple addition to php but I’ve got all tied up with normal WordPress ‘categories’ vs IssueM ‘issues’ and I’m starting to lose the plot. Any help would be much appreciated.

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  • Yes. We do it every issue. No need to edit php.

    Our method is as follows. The issue is displayed in a Page called “Current Edition – Front Page”. The Page contains the description of the current issue (and the IssueM shortcodes, e.g. [issuem_featured_rotator]). It is edited to suit each issue’s content. When a new issue is created, the entire content from the previous version of the front Page is copied and pasted into a new Article titled “Issue #: DD/MM/YYYY Cover Page” before the front Page is edited to suit the new Issue. We associate that new Article with its Issue and click the check box below the Article contents to add it to the Featured Rotator (but not to the Featured Thumbnails) and maybe give it a thumbnail. On our site we have a ‘Back Issues’ Page that contains a shortcode: [issuem_archives limit=3]. When a site visitor goes to the Back Issues Page on the site they can see the current and all previous issues listed. Clicking on any specific issue (except the current issue) brings up a list of the Articles in that issue. The first listed Article is (usually) the Contents Page article. Hope that helps.

    Thread Starter Richard Lucas

    (@richlucas)

    Something very similar to what you’ve outlined there, might just do it. I’ve got to keep the process as simple as possible because it won’t always be me uploading issues but you’ve, at the very least, triggered the beginnings of a different ‘Front page’-based plan. Thank you.

    Thread Starter Richard Lucas

    (@richlucas)

    This doesn’t work the way I need it, unfortunately.

    I have some Issues where all of the Articles in it follow a theme so, when an Issue is displayed (using the standard template of the recommended Current Issue page), I’d like to show a short paragraph about that common theme after the Issue Title [issuem_issue_title] and before the Articles of that Issue [issuem_articles].

    Each issue has a ‘Description’ box when you set it up (id=”description”) but, I can’t see how to get that description to display in the template.

    I’m reliably informed it could be done with a PHP snippet that fetches and displays the description. A get_the_terms function (?), but I’ve been trying to learn how to do that and it’s way beyond me.

    Can anybody help?

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