sixfootjames

Thanks again Esmi.

It seems this option is working for me then.

/%category%/%postname%/

This at least results in…

https://www.example.com/news/news-articl-name

Other pages just link as normal then. ??

Thanks Esmi.

I gave this some more thought.

To keep it simple, I would still use the posts (for the news items) but in WP, I could create a subpage called “News-items” and make it submenu under “News”.

In my Reading Settings (in WP), I could then tell the posts page to use the “News-Items” page.

What should then happen according to my understanding, is that when someone clicks on a post from the home page, it should redirect to…

https://www.example.com/news/news-item

Yet, this is not happening. Is there another configuration setting I might be missing?

Many thanks

Thanks Adpawl.

I will have a look into these. ??

Otherwise, is there a plugin for WordPress that can notify me via email if the site has been attacked?

That’s a great start thanks vtxyzzy.
Now all I need is a way to associate the creation of the hi scores table with the user table information. ??

Final working code snippet…thanks everyone!

function add_below_the_post () {

	global $post;
	$category = get_the_category();
	$category = $category[0]->category_nicename;

	global $pagename;
	$news_page_name = $pagename;

	if (!is_wp_error($category))
	{
		if ($category == 'student-stories')
		{
			echo('<a class="postFootLink" href="' .site_url() .'/people/student-stories/">Return to ' .$category .'</a>');
		}
		else if ($category == 'news' && $news_page_name != 'news-events')
		{
			echo('<a class="postFootLink" href="' .site_url() .'/news/news-events/">Return to ' .$category .'</a>');
		}
		else if ($category == 'research')
		{
			echo('<a class="postFootLink" href="' .site_url() .'/research/research-snippet/">Return to ' .$category .' snippets</a>');
		}

	}
}

add_action('thematic_belowpost', 'add_below_the_post');

I have a feeling that might work! Let me give it a try and get back to you. I think the answer is in the global variable! Be back soon ??

Hi Lee.

The two pages are already using two different templates.

I have systematically removed the hooks from my template-page-news.php (or your equivalent to “news-and-events”) template to see if I can remove it.

There are two hooks in this template:

thematic_indexloop();
&
thematic_belowcontent()

From the bottom up, I have removed these hooks and nothing happens until I remove thematic_indexloop(). Only then do all most posts go missing which is understandable.

This then leaves me thinking that add_below_post() is being called every time within that loop.

See my dilemma? ??

Thanks fore replying Keesiemeijer.

Basically what’s happening is that two pages share the same category, “news”.

This one: https://goo.gl/GvVuf
And this one: https://goo.gl/u89CE

From the latter page, the news list page (https://goo.gl/u89CE), I need to remove the “Return To News” links as we are already on this page.

So in my IF statement, I need to exclude the links by either checking if we’re using a certain category, page ID or template…all of which I have tried and all of which don’t seem to work.

Many thanks again.

Thanks for the replies. The problem I am having is when I debug for the post ID, it returns all the categories within the loop. You can see it here.

Above the title you will see I am writing the Post ID of that page (181). Below that and in the loop, you can see I am writing out the POST ID of each ID of news item.

This page (news-events) is made up of two parts; a template page called template-page-news.php and functions.php where the add_action() function is adding content below the post like so:

add_action(‘thematic_belowpost’, ‘add_below_the_post’);

It would seem that the page’s ID is not being passed into the loop when I check it like this:

else if ($category == 'news' && $post->ID != '181'))
{
	echo('<a class="postFootLink" href="' .site_url() .'/news/news-events/">Return to ' .$category .'</a>');
}

If I do this however from one of the known ID’s in that loop, I can get rid of the button

else if ($category == 'news' && ($post->ID == '1188'))
{
	echo('<a class="postFootLink" href="' .site_url() .'/news/news-events/">Return to ' .$category .'</a>');
}

I know this is going to be something simple when the lights go on ??

Thanks again!

Here is another option I have tried.

else if ($category == 'news')
{
	if (is_page_template('template-page-news.php'))
	{
		echo('WORKING');
	} else
	{
		echo('<a class="postFootLink" href="' .site_url() .'/news/news-events/">Return to ' .$category .'</a>');
	}
}

Now I know for sure that it is using the template “template-page-news.php” so it should write “WORKING” to the page and yet it doesn’t do this which leaves me wondering why this would not work within the add_action() function of Thematic wireframe.

Many thanks!

Hi Josh,

Thanks for getting back to me and your example. I tried it and a multitude of other options and still I am having some problems with it.

The latest option I have tried is to exclude the page I dont want the link to be echoed onto using IS NOT !is_page(‘news-events’). Like this…

else if ($category == 'news' && !is_page('news-events'))
{
echo('<a class="postFootLink" href="' .site_url() .'/news/news-events/">Return to ' .$category .'</a>');
}

I tried your method too but it seems to ignore it completely. Could it have to do with where this function is being called and that it is ignoring the is_page() call altogether?

Thanks again

This is what worked in the end…I had to change it slightly to wrap the <h2> tag as well…

<div class="entry-content">
        <h1><?php  the_title(); ?> </h1>
        <?php query_posts('cat=5&posts_per_page=4');
            if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();?>
            <?php echo '<div class="two-col">' ?>
            <h2><?php the_title();?></h2>
            <?php
                global $more;
                $more = 0;

                the_content();
                echo '</div>';
                endwhile; endif;
                // Reset Query
                wp_reset_query();
            ?>

</div>

Thanks again!

Thanks everyone, I will try these options now and come back with any problems I might have ??

Esmi..I am assuming you work for WordPress? You have just about answered all of my questions. Or does every WP user get it’s own Saint?

Thanks!