WatcherJoshua

The background image is applied from the Site Editor in the Styles panel > Background section.

Adding the background via a Group Block in each template might fix the problem since nothing from the template shows up by default. But then if (when) we want to change the background I would have to update every template instead of one place.

I have reviewed the plugin you recommended, but I do not see how it can solve my problem. The plugin seems to just add several new Gutenberg blocks that I do not need.

I want to expand the “Advanced” settings box by default on all core Gutenberg blocks. I would prefer to not use a plugin for it. However, if a plugin can do it, that implies that I could do it by adding code to functions.php – which I would prefer.

I would also like a proper solution to this, but I have found two workarounds.

1. Use the code editor.

2. Copy/paste the text you want in the summary.

This is all very helpful. I have a basic working version now. Thank you.

Thank you. I tried all of the ways that you suggested, and they did not work – but you did help me get pointed in the right direction. I was not certain if concatenation would work at all with an include statement, and you confirmed that it did.

I was also using the wrong function. I was not familiar with get_template_directory().

To elaborate on the use case: I need to include the raw SVG code in the document so that it can be styled with CSS (this would also be necessary for accessing it with JS). I could just copy/paste all the SVG into the document, but that clutter the code and make it hard to change it later. Including the separate document means I can change the icon in Illustrator without needing to change the PHP file as well.

With a little more research, I found that this is a known issue with using include to insert an SVG with PHP. The easiest work-around is to use file_get_contents() instead.

The code that worked:
<?php echo file_get_contents(get_template_directory_uri() . '/images/icon.svg'); ?>

I found this information about the PHP and SVG issue at: https://sheelahb.com/blog/how-to-get-php-to-play-nicely-with-svg-files/

Thanks again!

• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by WatcherJoshua. Reason: More details
• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by WatcherJoshua.

@howdy_mcgee

The code is included in index.php on the home page of the website. The page includes the normal WordPress loop and then this query below that (where I want to show posts from only one post type that is excluded from the normal loop).

I just tried disabling all plugins and using the Twentynineteen theme with the same results: It displays all the same stories from the normal loop again and does not include any from the custom post type. It’s as if I had just included the same loop twice.