Ed Sutherland

It would probably help if I explained. I recieve posts in WordPress. Those posts need to edited. The edited posts then need to be sent to Google Drive, where they can be shared. I’ve found somewhat of an answer with the Google Drive desktop app – I can set a folder that is automatically shared with Google Drive. I can then copy-and-paste from the WordPress post to the folder and it gets to Google Drive.

The second option I’ve come across is Zapier which can automate a number of tasks, including sending a post to Google Drive once it is published.

True. But after the 50th or 60th copy-and-paste, the process could become rather difficult.

@minelistings:

A few questions: How did you remove the promo from the DOM? Yes, the ad is created from within Feedzy and disappears when you disable the plugin.

I’ve been using a kludgy fix: use the ‘duplicate’ plugin to create a copy of the post, removing the ad because it is created outside of Feedzy.

Yes, it is the plugin. I’ve posted a question in support. In the meantime, is there an alternative?

Thanks, but I am looking for a simple plugin that grabs post headlines from another site and puts it in a post on my site.

I came upon a partial solution that could reduce the headaches over categories. I found I could substitute pages for the categories, allowing slugs with the same name (like “legislature”) can be used multiple times.

Le me try to be more specific. I’m using a child theme of Blockbase. My main template shares the majority of layout with all categories.

The sticking point is a secondary menu used throughout all templates which has the same text and order (‘Legislature’) and the majority of the category paths the same. The only difference is the child category that specifies the final destination. For instance, one category may have this path: /firstcat/secondcat/legislature1Cat. A second path might be /firstcat/secondcat/legislature2Cat. The variable is legislation[x]Cat.

The question becomes how to use one template part that covers numerous category path variables. Otherwise, I’ll need to create template parts for each different menu path.

One potential solution might be to use the same slug for the last child menu path. For instance, all menus would point to /firstcat/secondcat/legislature. The problem is that WordPress doesn’t permit the same category slug being used as several child categories. (one child category could not be named ‘legislature’ and another child category be named ‘legislature’.)

• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by Ed Sutherland.

Excuse the vagueness. If I have two categories, like “Apples” and “Oranges, I’d like users to be able to pick a choice and then only see posts matching that choice. In other words, users who choose “Apple” posts would not see “Orange” posts.

I know membership plugins can restrict content, but I’m not sure how to save a choice, as can be done with Users/Edit with “First Name,” for instance. What would be nice is if something similar could be done with categories. For instance, a user could enter her category choice.

Another option would be to use a cookie to store choices, but example code I’ve seen only describes how “Hello <username>” could be output.

The ability to create a shortened slugwill be a welcome addition. Until that time, I will adapt to the added step. Thanks, again.

I hope I correctly understand your explanation. My workflow is to input a target url (from the editing page ) while writing a new post. A that time, the post URL is “https://mysite.com/?p=273898&#8221;. When published, the URL becomes “https://mysite.com/2022/04/test-2/&#8221;. This is even though I enabled random URL slug. But if I created the shortened URL from the “Add New Link”, the shortened link works.

I was attracted to BetterLinks because it allowed me to create a shortlink within the editor, and not require interrupting writing to switch to BetterLinks, go to the Manage Links page, click on “New Link”, enter the target URL, copy the shorted link, go back to my editor, past in the shortened link.

Without this feature, BetterLinks is no better than PrettyLinks, or another basic link shortner.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by Ed Sutherland.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by Ed Sutherland.

I’m familiar with the Query Loop Block. But I think I’m concerned with the Post Excerpt Block.

Sorry for any confusion. I’m talking about the templates used in Full Site Editing. I’d like to create a tag template specific to one tag. I don’t see how that could be done now. There are generic taxonomy and archive templates.

I enabled the “Classic Widgets” plugin and the widgets appear in the backend and the front.

Nope, doesn’t work. Here are the steps I took.

1) Switched to 2021 theme.
2) Disabled all plugins.
3) Went to backend widgets area and created a widget in the “footer.”
4) Clicked on “Update” – no indication widgets were updated.
5) In frontend, widget created from backend doesn’t appear.
6) Visit backend widget area – blank. No widget saved.
7) Used customizer. Created widget, hit “publish.”
8) Widget appears on frontend.

Not sure what the problem is, but for now, I’m creating/editing widgets via customizer.

There may be some confusion. Indeed, the Gutenberg Editor is part of core, not needing a plugin. However, I’m referring to Gutenberg’s Full Site Editing feature, not available in the core, needing the Gutenberg plugin. Disabling the Gutenberg plugin also disables FSE and using block-based themes, such as Blockbase.

While I’d hoped FSE would make creating CPT templates easier, until some of the kinks are worked out, it appears I’ll need to stick with the traditional template-making process.