Featured Widget Amplified help

[Jeffrey]

Is there a way to put "Leave a comment" and "read more" in the same section of the widget. The default "read more" area is in the post title section and the default "comments" location is the post meta. Is there a way to merge them -- or maybe to call the "read more" link to the post meta section?

Thanks so much!

[nickthegeek]

Jeff, There really isn't a simple way to do that. The issue is that the read more is part of the content output, so you would need to make your own custom content and a custom short code to output the more link in the post meta section.

[Jeffrey]

Thanks for the reply Nick.

Well, is there an easier way to display the "comments" link in the content section with the "read more", instead of the aforementioned vice versa?

[nickthegeek]

Not really, both require replacing the plugin content output with your own custom output.

[Jeffrey]

gotcha nick. is there anyway you could help me with that custom output? is it a big ordeal?

[nickthegeek]

Jeffery,

I don't have the code for that written up.

[Jeffrey]

Nick, thanks for getting back to me over the holiday weekend. Is that easy code to write up? If not, do you know of a widget or plugin that already has this built in (though i need to maintain the post offset functionality).

[nickthegeek]

Jeffery,

It isn't super hard, it can be done via the hooks system built into the plugin. I'm not aware of one that does this already.

[Jeffrey]

Do you have any help on how to use the hooks system to accomplish this?

Thanks a ton for your help Nick! If I can pull this off the site will be done! Yay!

 

[Jeffrey]

Any word Nick?

[nickthegeek]

I do not have any detailed tutorial. The information on hooks in my Genesis Explained series will apply here as well.

http://designsbynickthegeek.com/tag/genesis-explained

[Jeffrey]

I'm really trying hard to wrap this up. Just don't have much experience writing in short codes or hooks. Would something like this work - http://www.billerickson.net/code/add-read-more-to-display-posts-shortcode/ ? If so, can you post any modifications you see that I would need to make to that coded to be able to use a [read_more] short code in the widget post meta section?

[Jeffrey]

I tried this code in functions.php but I'm getting a parse error. Any ideas?

function read_more() {
if (have_posts()) :
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
$return_string = '<a href='.get_permalink($post->ID).'>'.get_the_title().'</a>';
endwhile;
endif;
return $return_string;
}

function register_shortcodes() {
add_shortcode( 'read-more', 'read_more_function');
}

[nickthegeek]

I see directional quotes, I don't know if that is formatting from the forum or the coded you added.


function read_more() {
global $post;
$return_string = 'ID).'">'.get_the_title().'';
return $return_string;
}
add_shortcode( 'read-more', 'read_more_function');


[Jeffrey]

copied ur code exactly and pasted it like this Nick:

/** Add read more shortcode */
function read_more() {
global $post;
$return_string = 'ID).'">'.get_the_title().'';
return $return_string;
}
add_shortcode( 'read-more', 'read_more_function');


I get the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in /home/content/J/S/D/JSDavis82/html/wood/wp-content/themes/magazine/functions.php on line 97

[Jeffrey]

shit, the forum is effing with the code i'm posting, but the top code quote in that last one was the exact code you posted, so disregard the way it is converting the characters.

[nickthegeek]

I don't see a problem with that code, it could be the way it was added to the functions.php file.

[Jeffrey]

thanks for replying Nick, sorry for my delay. how could it be a problem with how it's added to functions.php? how should it be added?

[nickthegeek]

Generally at the very end so it isn't interfering with any other code.

[Jeffrey]

thanks nick. Just tried putting it at the bottom and got this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION, expecting ')' in /home/content/J/S/D/JSDavis82/html/wood/wp-content/themes/magazine/functions.php on line 144

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