Comments on: Recent news box on front page for Tiga 1.0.2 theme (obsoleted) http://www.learncpp.com/wordpress/recent-news-box-on-front-page-for-tiga-102-theme/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:32:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Alex http://www.learncpp.com/wordpress/recent-news-box-on-front-page-for-tiga-102-theme/#comment-14 Alex Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:14:46 +0000 http://www.learncpp.com/?p=26#comment-14 Unfortunately, this idea (as implemented here) is not easily extensible to other themes without some php/css coding work. When viewers look at a normal static page, it loads page.php to use as a default page template. page.php is customized by almost every theme. Thus, the page.php for one theme will be different from the page.php for another theme. The newspage.php file linked above is a file that I modified based on Tiga's page.php file. It's basically Tiga's page.php file with a few lines added to display the box in a style that looks like the Tiga sidebar boxes (using a CSS style that is only available in the Tiga theme) and then show the recent news using the plugin. Consequently, anybody wanting to port this to another theme would have to create their own newspage.php based on the page.php for their theme, and then utilize a different style from their style.css (also dependent on their theme). It would be pretty cool if it were easily portable across themes, though. I'll have to spend some time and look into whether there's a way to make that happen. Unfortunately, this idea (as implemented here) is not easily extensible to other themes without some php/css coding work. When viewers look at a normal static page, it loads page.php to use as a default page template. page.php is customized by almost every theme. Thus, the page.php for one theme will be different from the page.php for another theme.

The newspage.php file linked above is a file that I modified based on Tiga’s page.php file. It’s basically Tiga’s page.php file with a few lines added to display the box in a style that looks like the Tiga sidebar boxes (using a CSS style that is only available in the Tiga theme) and then show the recent news using the plugin.

Consequently, anybody wanting to port this to another theme would have to create their own newspage.php based on the page.php for their theme, and then utilize a different style from their style.css (also dependent on their theme).

It would be pretty cool if it were easily portable across themes, though. I’ll have to spend some time and look into whether there’s a way to make that happen.

]]> By: cpptrader http://www.learncpp.com/wordpress/recent-news-box-on-front-page-for-tiga-102-theme/#comment-12 cpptrader Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:24:39 +0000 http://www.learncpp.com/?p=26#comment-12 Wow! Great find... it may actually be something I use for my static pages. If you go to the help forums at WP I think there are plenty of people asking for something like this. Wow! Great find… it may actually be something I use for my static pages.

If you go to the help forums at WP I think there are plenty of people asking for something like this.

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