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  • rblythe

    (@rblythe)


    13 years, 8 months ago

    I’m a Asp.net developer that is seriously considering switching to WordPress for my basic clients. clients. So just consider this a newbie question about WordPress.

    I have a site that auto publishes a monthly article on the main page as well as a “Quote of the Month.” The quote of the month exists as a side bar item of the main page where the monthly article resides. How can I tie these two entities together where if the user clicks on an archived article, the quote for that archived month will show on that page as well?

    Thanks in advance

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  • vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    I can’t say that I have done exactly this, but here is the approach I think will work.

    • Enable shortcodes in widgets by adding this line to functions.php: add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');.
    • Create the shortcode function in functions.php to display the quote based on the current month.
    • Add a Text widget containing the shortcode to the sidebar.
    • Use the Widget Logic plugin to restrict the widget to the Home page.
    Thread Starter rblythe

    (@rblythe)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    I’m so sorry for not responding sooner. WordPress and PHP is still new concepts for me but your idea sounds like a good start.

    Thanks!

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