I want to wrap a mediawiki site inside another site - using the header.inc and footer.inc files that the rest of the website's html files use.
I'm not familiar with php, is there a 'masterpage' file somewhere I can put them in?
Your best bet would be to create a custom skin, or edit one of the default skins, such as monobook. They control most of the basic presentation code. Here is one short tutorial on creating a custom skin. The files usually live in the /skins/ folder; if you skim through one, you can find where the HTML begins and ends.
You can include another file using the PHP include function, like so:
<html>
...
<body>
<?php
include 'header.inc';
?>
...
For future reference in the LocalSettings.php you can also prevent users from using any other skin.
$wgDefaultSkin = 'myskin';
$wgAllowUserSkin = false;
$wgSkipSkins = array( "chick", "cologneblue", "monobook", "modern", "myskin", "nostalgia", "simple", "standard" );
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I am building a child theme on GeneratePress to create a custom site for a client and am stuck on customizing the Archive pages. I've determined that it will be best to ignore the theme functionality and build the page loops from scratch. The custom archive should take the place of wp/generatepress' standard archive page and function in the same way by showing relevant posts when a taxonomy term is clicked. I need to be able to choose which html tags are used and style them with css. My issue is that I don't understand wordpress dev enough to figure out how to do this.
I have two custom post types, Research and Resources, as well as a bunch of different custom taxonomies that are applied to both or each post type. I'd like to customize the archive page (with archive templates if necessary) so it displays the appropriate Research and/or Resource files when visited.
I understand that I need to loop through all the posts, but I do not know how to grab only the relevant ones per the given archive page.
Examples of loops with example content will be the most helpful. Thank you!!
I chatted with someone on Reddit who kindly answered this question for me here.
They said:
So I wouldn't do it as a template personally (you could), I would do it through having two new files a archive-research.php & archive-resources.php.
Then if the loop is going to be the same on both pages, which I think you said it is going to be (you just want to display the posts from each custom post type), I would use a template part.
So create a new folder in your theme folder called inc or includes and name the file custom_post_loop.php (name can be anything).
Then in your archive page, call...
<?php get_template_part('inc/custom_post_loop');?>
In that file you are just wanting to write a simple post loop in there.
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
// Your loop code
// just so you can see this work I have called the title
the_title();
endwhile;
else : _e( 'Sorry, no posts were found.', 'textdomain' ); endif; ?>
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/have_posts/
Have a look at that link to find out more. But thats the direction to go...
If you really wanted to got the direction you have with the template, you would have to add arguments to your posts loop.
it works the same way but instead of archive.php its taxonomy.php...
However, you don't want a taxonomy-{taxonomy name}.php file for each taxonomy as that would be ridiculous unless you knew all the taxonomies haha and had really specific user cases for them...
so just create a taxonomy.php in your theme files and to make sure its working just add this code to it...
<?php get_header();>
<h1><?php the_archive_title();?></h1>
//then put your loop in from earlier...
<?php get_template_part('inc/custom_post_loop');?>
<?php get_footer();?>
I wish to do the following things:
Insert external html blocks into new html pages
Use the same html header from one html file for a number of pages, without recreating the header again for all the pages
Please help!
You can use HTML Imports which is part of Web Components:
<head>
<link rel="import" href="/path/to/your/file.html">
</head>
If your page does not have to be pure HTML, you should consider using PHP or a similar server-side language.
There are plenty of options, depends on you:
1) use iframes (a lot problems with responsibility) http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp
2) ajax call in javascript, load external resource and then print it in placeholder tag (example is with jquery) http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/jquery_ajax_load.asp
3) use some server language/preprocessor (php, ruby, nodejs), depend if you can (need to by installed on server)
4) also there are static page generator, you add marks in your html, and they will compile html with marks to full static html http://hyde.github.io/ for example.
What you are talking about appears to be a process called templating. There are many ways to do this, including writing Javascript to insert pre-written HTML templates into the DOM (the webpage). You might also consider using a pre-written templating library such as http://handlebarsjs.com/ or another library which contains templating functions like http://underscorejs.org/. A simple MVC guide like:
http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2014/11/a-beginners-guide-to-mvc-for-web.html
May be helpful too, to get you started.
In a more practical sense, here's one possible solution:
To begin I would recommend putting the 'blocks' you want to insert in a separate folder. In the website I run, for example, I place them in the \templates folder (or subfolders) but you can more or less call it what you want as long as it makes sense to you. For our purposes let's say we've created block.html and put it in our \templates subfolder...
Now, within each template you will have whatever you want to load in; something like this:
<h2>Title of section</h2>
<p>My text.</p>
Or whatever you'd like. Then, you'll probably want to add an element to your main page which calls some Javascript, which loads your HTML template in when a particular condition occurs. For example, if you wanted to load in our block.html file you might write something like this:
<div id="calling-block" onclick="menuClicked('locationToInsert', 'block')"></div>
Which would call a Javascript function called 'menuClicked()' when we click the div with the id 'calling-block'.
Within the function we would write something like this:
<script>
function menuClicked(insertEl, UrlString, onTemplateLoaded) {
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xhttp.readyState == 4 && xhttp.status == 200) {
document.getElementById(insertEl).innerHTML = xhttp.responseText;
if (onTemplateLoaded) onTemplateLoaded();
};
};
console.log(UrlString);
xhttp.open("GET", UrlString, true);
xhttp.send();
};
</script>
This is a very simple way of doing things and I'm sure people will tell you there are problems with it, so I would definitely recommend doing your own reading as well, but I hope this covers the very basics.
You need tu use a server side functionality like php, aspx ...
I was wondering how do you add link tag/google font to head in yii2.
I want to add the following
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,300,600,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
I have found this documentation but doesn't mention anything about link/adding google font etc
The correct answer is to create a new AssetBundle.
While you can directly place the HTML for the fonts into the of your main.php file, this isn't the Yii way. If you have tried to load jQuery files this way, you might notice odd behavior when directly putting them into the HTML.
For example: Directly place the HTML tag for Bootstrap CDN into the head of your main.php. Then, somewhere in your code try to use the tooltip. You will get an error in your console that tooltip is not a function. - This is because the way Yii puts all your template files together, and at that time, Bootstrap is not available.
While simply loading a font probably won't cause any problems, it is a good idea to do things the way they were intended. Following MVC rules, properly documenting your code, and following the Yii best practices, will go a long way. Not only will you thank yourself a year later when you have to go back into a project, but the next guy will appreciate it. I can't stand going into systems, and seeing stuff thrown everywhere, chincy hacks, and spaghetti code, and no documentation or comments.
Correct Way:
Create a new AssetBundle. In your assets folder, you probably already have AppAsset.php. Duplicate it, and name it FontAsset.php.
Here is an example from my project, using 3 Google fonts.
FontAsset.php
<?php
namespace app\assets;
use yii\web\AssetBundle;
class FontAsset extends AssetBundle
{
public $basePath = '#webroot';
public $baseUrl = '#web';
public $css = [
'//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,700',
'//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Ubuntu:400,700',
'//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald:400,700'
];
public $cssOptions = [
'type' => 'text/css',
];
}
In your layout, main.php for example. Right under where you see AppAsset::register($this)
main.php
use app\assets\FontAsset;
FontAsset::register($this);
For every layout file that you want to load those fonts, include the FontAsset.
The AssetBundle is basically a bundle of CSS and/or JS files and options. You could add another one for say JWPlayer say named VideoAsset, and add your JS/CSS files for JWPlayer in it.
Point being, you shouldn't be adding these things directly into the HTML of the layouts directly, as it can cause problems. Let the AssetManager handle them by declaring AssetBundles.
It might save you later down the road!
The best way is to create an asset bundle and add the link to the bundle.
You can find a complete guide here:
http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-structure-assets.html
You can put it directly in the head of the layout (file views/layouts/main.php)
To apply a CSS to an existing html page I need to add a link that links to the css file, I am asked to include a link in the webpage that I am building that would link to the same html page but with a different css file, I am thinking I need to create a different css file, then create another .html page by copy the exact content from the first page and only change the link of the css file, but it doesn't seem so efficient and I am assuming there should be a standard method to do this.
thanks
you can use a JAVAscript to documet.write a link
If you can use a server-side language like PHP, I would do it something like this:
<?php
$allowed_stylesheets = array("red", "white", "blue", "green", "mobile");
$default_stylesheet = "red";
$stylesheet =
(in_array($_GET["stylesheet"]) ? $_GET["stylesheet"] : $default_stylesheet);
?>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $stylesheet; ?>">
you would then be able to call your page, and switch the style sheet like so:
www.example.com/page.php?stylesheet=mobile
note that to make a .html page run in PHP, there is probably some server setup necessary, by default only .php pages are parsed in PHP. Depending on your situation, that may be too much hassle than it's worth. However, I don't know any pure HTML way of switching style sheets reliably.
Also, this way, you will have to repeat the style sheet command every time you call the page.
I'm sure this topic comes up all the time,
But I can't seem to fine a concise answer.
I've got a vertical menu bar that I want to reuse in webpages (>20).
The Menu Bar is coded in HTML and uses uses: UL, LI, A, <Div> tags, and CSS. We need this:
Reusable
Maintainable
Scalable
So we don't have to modify all pages every time we add a page.
We'd rather avoid a coding approach if possible. We could live with just one master file that we edit as needed. Since we're using CSS and <div>s, I don't think frames scale for us. What can we do?
Server side includes are the way to go if you don't want to use a programming language.
They take this form:
<!--#include virtual="menu.html" -->
and will be inserted in the page wherever you put that tag in your HTML. It requires server side parsing, so your web server must have server side includes enabled. You can try it out, and if it doesn't work, contact your server host to see if you can get them enabled. If it's Apache, there's a method of enabling them via .htaccess files as well.
In order to do this, you'll have to use some server side technology. For instance you could...
include them in php
put them in the master page in .net
put this in a partial or a layout page in rails
Some reading:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wtxbf3hh.aspx
Another solution would be to create all this using Javascript, but please don't do it like that :)
html:
<script type="text/javascript" src="hack.js"></script>
<div id="mymenu">
</div>
hack.js:
function createMenu(){
$("#mymenu").html("all the html of your menu");
}
Without any server side script or Javascript you can use object or iframe tags.
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_object.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp
The only thing to care is to indicate target="parent" in links.
Hope it helps
Using a w3 script..
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<script src="http://www.w3schools.com/lib/w3data.js"></script>
<body>
<div w3-include-html="header.html"></div>
<div w3-include-html="nav.html"></div>
<script>
w3IncludeHTML();
</script>
</body>
</html>
header.html
<h1>Title</h1>
nav.html
<h2>Your nav</h2>
See also: http://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_html_include.asp
And don't forget to test this code on your localhost.
I've done this two separate ways - one using server side (PHP) and one using Javascript includes (for demos that need to be able to run without any internet connection or server capabilities).
For PHP includes your pages will have to end with .php rather than .htm or .html, and these are very ideal to replace your header, footer, navigation, etc. Anything that is repeated on multiple pages.
Basically you would create your normal code then copy and paste the code you want to break out - in this example, your navigation - and save it in another file called (for example) inc_navigation.htm (this page can be called .htm).
Then in your actual pages you'd use the following code:
<?php include('inc_navigation.htm') ?>
That would insert your navigation at that point, if you had a change to make you'd make it to the .htm file and it would propagate to any page with that included.
For javascript includes you will have to include the following line at the top of every document where you want to include your navigation:
<script type="text/javascript" src="includes.js"></script>
Then you'll create a document called includes.js.
At the top of this document you'll declare your navigation variable:
var navigation = new Array(); // This is for the navigation.
Then a little ways down in that same document you need to actually outline your navigation code (the line numbers in the square brackets are crucial - keep them in order and start with 0 - you cannot have line breaks in this code so every line of code has to be a new line):
// ==================== Navigation ==================== //
navigation[0] = '<div id="tab_navigation">';
navigation[1] = '<ul id="dropline">';
navigation[2] = '<li><b>Home</b></li>';
navigation[3] = '<li><b>About Us</b></li>';
navigation[4] = '</ul>';
navigation[5] = '</div><!-- Close TAB NAVIGATION -->';
Then a little ways after that you'll actually insert the javascript that will put that code into your page (it doesn't actually put it there but rather makes it accessible in the page without actually altering the code of the .htm page - so if you view source you'll see the reference to the code not the code itself).
function show(i)
{
for (x in i)
{
document.write(i[x]+'\n')
}
}
Finally - in your .htm document, say for your index.htm page, you'll replace your navigation code (that you put in the above block called navigation) with this:
<script type="text/javascript">show(navigation);</script>
Where that name after SHOW and in the parenthesis is the name of your variable (declared earlier).
I have sites showing both methods in use if you'd like to see them just send me a message.
I was facing the same thing. Then, I created a new file for storing the html of the navigation bar.
I created a file navbar.html which had all my navigation bar code.
Then, in your main html file where you want navigation bar, just include this file by using jquery.
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#navigation').load('navbar.html');
});
Then at the place where you want navigation bar, just add this line:
<div id="navigation"></div>
As a modern answer to a six year old question: Web Components are specifically reusable HTML components, and Polymer is possibly the most popular implementation of it at the moment. Currently virtually no browser has native support for Web Components, so at the very least a Javascript polyfill is required.
If you would use PHP, all you have to do is use the include command, no coding beyond this one command.
Also, check out server side includes
So far one of the best solutions I have found is to model the menus after the Son of Suckerfish XHTML/CSS solution that is pretty well documented on the internet now combined with some logic on the server to render the unordered list. By using unordered lists you have a couple different options on how to output the results, but as long as the menu has some basic hierarchy you can generate it. Then for the actual page all you need to do is include a reference to the menu generating function.
I was searching for a way to write a reusable navigation menu that toggled(show/hide) when clicking a button. I want to share a solution that worked for me in case anyone else is looking to do the same. This solution uses jQuery, html, and css.
Add this line of code to your head tag in your main index.html file:
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
Add div for your nav in body tag:
<div id="mySidenav" class="sidenav"></div>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$("button").click(function(){
$("#mySidenav").load("nav.html").toggle().width("400pt");
});
});
</script>
Create a html file that will be where your navigation menu resides. My file is called nav.html and inside the file the contents look like this:
have you found your one true musubi?`
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