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I guess I really have to start by asking how good your php and javascript is as well as asking if it is always the same text file you want to open or can it be different files depending upon some condition?

Actually you should be able to do this using just php.

Any code you write should be either placed in the 'spFunctions.php' file of your SP theme (and use a child theme to save losing changes on updates) - or - since Simple:Press version 5.5.7 you can drop a php file named 'sp-user-functions.php' into the wp-content folder and it will be included. This is then safe from future updates.

The Announcements plugin has a standard WP style filter hook you can use to add content to the announcement display. This is named  'sph_AnnounceMessage' and sends the $content to be changed/added to etc. There are details of this on our codex page for this plugin.

A dialog box can  be opened by sending the content directly to it in something like an onclick event. So the button you add can use onclick. The JS function and calling arguments are:

spjDialogHtml(e, content, title, width, height, position, dClass)

made up of:

If you are able to search through our code you will find a few examples. We could advise on this of course.

For a tutorial on hooks see: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API

Essentially you would add your content additions to the $out variable and then pass it back in a return statement. So something like:

add_filter('sph_AnnounceMessage', 'your_announcement_content');
function your_announcement_content($content) {
 $content .= '---what you want to add---';
 return $content;
}

So there you would add your button with the onclick call to spjDialogHtml() and the data you send that would need to include the text of the text file.

Ah - the more complex option! Very glad to hear you are in your way. It is so nice to see people use some of these functions...