vectyr

Ok, so I got the multiple select working by selecting the ‘direct link’ option in settings, saving, and then reselecting ‘lightbox’. That made it work for some reason.

Ok, I figured out my error here. The code works fine if I place it in the loop. I completely forgot that I was using a plugin called “EmbedIt” which allows you to drop the content of a custom field anywhere within the content of the editor using a shortcode like [HTML1].

This is where the problem was. The custom field key is HTML1, so I don’t think anyone will be able to help me unless they are familiar with this plugin. What I am basically trying to accomplish, is allowing a client to insert blocks of text via custom fields that they can then insert into the body copy of their text. I don’t want them to have to mess with divs, I’d like to have the divs inserted automatically.

Ok, I know that I am doing something wrong. I was putting the code inside my subpage template, but then I realized that this isn’t what I was wanting.

I’m basically wanting some code to recognize a custom field and then wrap the value in a div wherever it occurs in the post. Would I put this in my functions.php?

Ah, whoops. Hmm. I changed it and it’s still not working.

<?php $mymeta = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'mymeta', true);
if ($mymeta) {
echo '<div class="sideBox">'.mymeta.'</div>';
} ?>

I’m using this which seems to be the correct way to set it up according to this thread, but it is not wrapping the value with the div. Any ideas?

Figured it out. Holy cow. Ok, so I didn’t have to put the whole: `<?php
echo ‘social.php’;
?>`

I just cleared everything and stuck the social code in there. Works! Thanks man!

What if I wanted to use custom fields to display a specific sidebar?

I’ve checked, double checked and triple checked and this is what I get: https://joshstevensfoundation.org/dev/about/

I think my error is in what I pointed out above. I’m trying everything man.

I don’t necessarily need that file to be in another folder. I’m fine with doing it the way you advised.

When you said this:

<?php
echo 'this is the include file ';
?>

Where it says ‘this is the include file’ do I put ‘/images/social.php’ or do I put ‘<?php include(“/images/social.php”); ?>’

Neither work, but I am using 2 social.php files, one in my theme and another in my images folder that has the code in it. Should I not be using the one in my images folder and place my code in the the one in my theme folder? like:

<?php
echo 'social.php';
<!--code goes here-->
?>

I’m still getting nothing. I placed the code in my sidebar.php file; there has to be something else that isn’t set up right. The php file that has the code I want to place is located in: /images/social.php.

I also that social.php file in my template folder. Do I still need that and if so, what specifically would I put in it?

I have a custom field with the key “social” so what do I put as the value?

correct

haha sorry man, I really do appreciate all of your help. The code above is what I would like placed on certain pages. It’s going in a sidebar and I already know how to create multiple sidebars, etc and I know that I could just create another page template, but this is the particular way I want to do it.

I would like to place the code above into a sidebar from a php file. I could paste the code on every page but I only want to edit the code in one spot.

I figured that since I can’t use php in a custom field, maybe I could but the file name in the custom field and then wrap that name with the php include function through the template itself. Does that make sense?

It’s placing text in just fine but this is the code I am trying to insert:

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/kindlikejosh" ><img src="/images/youTubeBttn.jpg" alt="Josh Stevens Foundation YouTube Channel"/></a>
<p></p>
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
  FB.init({
    appId: "110846042287783",
    xfbml: true
  });
};
(function() {
  var e = document.createElement('script'); e.async = true;
  e.src = document.location.protocol + '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js';
  document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e);
}());
</script>
<fb:fan profile_id="110846042287783" stream="0" connections="0" logobar="1" width="160" height="1"></fb:fan>
<script src="https://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script>
<script src="https://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script>
<script src="https://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script>
<p></p>
<script>
new TWTR.Widget({
  version: 2,
  type: 'faves',
  rpp: 10,
  interval: 6000,
  title: 'Twitter',
  subject: 'Josh Stevens Fdn.',
  width: 160,
  height: 120,
  theme: {
    shell: {
      background: '#faae44',
      color: '#ffffff'
    },
    tweets: {
      background: '#ffffff',
      color: '#444444',
      links: '#ce1720'
    }
  },
  features: {
    scrollbar: false,
    loop: true,
    live: true,
    hashtags: true,
    timestamp: true,
    avatars: false,
    behavior: 'default'
  }
}).render().setUser('kindlikejosh').start();
</script>

Ok, I did exactly as you said and tried it. All it did was place the text “social.php” in the side bar. So I tried to use the entire php include line with the path to the file in it and that didn’t work either. Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

I created a file called social.php and put it in my theme folder. This is what I put in the file:

<?php
echo 'social.php';
?>

Is that correct?

Finally you asked me to create a custom field called “social” with the value of “/social.php”. Is that supposed to be the social.php in the theme folder or to the other social.php that has the code I need in it? Sorry if I’m being dense.

Correct on all three points.

The value I’m using in the path: <?php include(“https://joshstevensfoundation.org/images/social.php&#8221;); ?>

I have also tried just: https://joshstevensfoundation.org/images/social.php

Neither work.