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HO HoneyBee
HoneyBee
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May 30, 2012 · 6:40 am · Edited

I don’t understand php at all. most times I just get by although I’ve tried to make a bit more sense of it over the past 2 days but getting no where.

 

I downloaded the template tag plugin.   i developed my own wordpress site/theme. i didn’t bother making my sidebars widget ready which may explain why after downloading the plugin I cannot see anything else in the wordpress admin area. I was going to try to make it widget ready but for some reason, the way I have done my sidebars it seems all to complicated. Besides which I didn’t want the template tags in the sidebars anyways.

 

Apologies for the long explanation but I thought it might be necessary. I’ve tried to figure out how to show hot topics within the main content but no luck. Can I have some help please?

 

thanks!

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MP Mr Papa
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May 30, 2012 · 9:46 am

sorry, help with what?  several issues there! wink

for widgetizing your theme:  http://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/

but that is very simplistic and focuses on sidebar.. you can do it anywhere really…  our site here has 4 in the footer too…

show hot topics in main content?  main content of what?  a page?  a post?

you can utilize a template tag in one of two ways…  with an actual php template tag function call or with a wp shortcode… so for the hot topics, you would enter

[sp_hot_topics]

or

sp_HotTopicsTag();

which one you choose is up to you and where you put it…  if you put it in a page or post content, you probably want the shortcode (unless you have a plugin that allows php in content)…  if you are putting it in a theme template file, you probably want the php template tag function call…

hopefully, that helps…  worth noting that if you use the shortcode, there is a bug in the display logic on where it will show up in relation to other content…  that will be fixed in the release tomorrow…

HO HoneyBee
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May 30, 2012 · 1:18 pm

Thanks. It was this sp_HotTopicsTag(); I was looking for. Thank you very much