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[sheilab]

I have a client who would like a paragraph to the right of a slideshow for each of her posts.

Can you point me in a direction as to how I could do this?   The slideshow can  be implemented with short code or as a widget. I could have her set up a different simple sidebar for each post but she is not that savvy and as the site grows, that would be lots of sidebars.

Using Outreach 2 theme.

http://www.bergmanmediaservices.com/project-2/

[SoZo]

Are the paragraphs going to be unique to each post? If so I would pull the text from a custom field. Or if you are using a slideshow with shortcode then you could add the text right after the shortcode and float it.

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John “Nicolas Flamel” Wright | SoZo’s design| John Wright Photography

[sheilab]

Thanks! Custom fields and CSS should work for me here. I have put this code into my functions.php file but am getting a syntax error and I just can't see it. Please advise.

/* add custom fields smb*/

if( genesis_get_custom_field( 'slideshow_shortcode' )
echo '<div class="slideshow_shortcode">' . genesis_get_custom_field( 'slideshow_shortcode' ) .'</div>';

if( genesis_get_custom_field( 'project_description' )
echo '<div class="project_description">' . genesis_get_custom_field( 'project_description' ) .'</div>';

[sheilab]

When I submit a reply to this post, I am sent to a 404 page.

[SoZo]

What is the syntax error and what else are you putting in functions.php?

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John “Nicolas Flamel” Wright | SoZo’s design| John Wright Photography

[sheilab]

I found the syntax error, I was missing the end parenthesis in my functions. I'm seeing the custom fields now but I still need help getting the slideshow short code to read as short code.   http://www.teripower.dev/project-2/

This is the code in my functions.php file:

/** Add custom fields to project category posts smb*/
add_action( 'genesis_post_content', 'child_custom_field' );
function child_custom_field() {
if( genesis_get_custom_field( 'slideshow_shortcode' ))
echo '<div class="slideshow_shortcode">' . genesis_get_custom_field( 'slideshow_shortcode' ) .'</div>';
if( genesis_get_custom_field( 'project_description' ))
echo '<div class="project_descriptione">' . genesis_get_custom_field( 'project_description' ) .'</div>';
}

I've played with adding parts of the code below to the code above and also tried wrapping parts of  it around the short code's custom field value when I define it in the post editor but can't get it right. The short code calls a slideshow. Should I post this as a new topic?

echo do_shortcode("[Shortcode]");

I'm getting closer.

Thanks!

Sheila

[SoZo]

If you want to enter the shortcode into the custom field then you need to edit echo do_shortcode(“[Shortcode]“); and replace "Shortcode" with the custom field output. i.e. echo do_shortcode(“[. genesis_get_custom_field( ‘slideshow_shortcode’ ) .]“);

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John “Nicolas Flamel” Wright | SoZo’s design| John Wright Photography

[sheilab]

I have added the do_shortcode function to the echo command and have tried for hours to get rid of this parse error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in /Users/bergman/Documents/Websites/www.teripower.dev/wp-content/themes/outreach/functions.php on line 81     (line 81 is the  echo do_shortcode  line for the slideshow_shortcode.)

Please take a look and see what I'm doing wrong. Thanks.

/** Add custom fields to project category posts smb*/
add_action( ‘genesis_post_content’, ‘child_custom_field’ );
function child_custom_field() {

if( genesis_get_custom_field( ‘slideshow_shortcode’ ))
echo do_shortcode(“[. genesis_get_custom_field( ‘slideshow_shortcode’ ) .]“);

if( genesis_get_custom_field( ‘project_description’ ))
echo ‘<div class=”project_descriptione”>’ . genesis_get_custom_field( ‘project_description’ ) .’</div>’;
}

 

[sheilab]

This is the final working version of the code that worked for me:

/** Add custom fields to project category posts smb. This works.*/
add_action( 'genesis_post_content', 'child_custom_field' );
function child_custom_field() {
if( genesis_get_custom_field( 'project_description' ))
echo '<span class="project_description">',
genesis_get_custom_field( project_description ) ,'</span>';
if( genesis_get_custom_field( 'slideshow_shortcode' ))
echo '<span class="slideshow_shortcode">', do_shortcode(''. genesis_get_custom_field( 'slideshow_shortcode' ) .''),'</span>';
}

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