Loomisoft

Hi @jlogo

Many thanks for your support enquiry.

I must admit, our plugin doesn’t natively support post enquiries, but have you tried this plugin:

https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wp-post-expires/

We haven’t tested it ourselves, but it might be what you’re looking for.

Do let us know if it works.

Regards,

Loomisoft

Hi @st5uzmloopsqz7dr9egp

If I understand the question, you just want a common block of text to be effectively imported into the post so you can then edit it on a case by case basis. If that’s the kind of thing you are looking for, then in all honesty, no.

The idea behind the plugin is to modularise content. That way if a common block you use in say 300 posts/pages (e.g. some “Special Offer” box), was to change, you would only have to make the change in one place and not have to drill down into all 300 pages/posts … that would be a maintenance nightmare.

However, the plugin allows you to have “variables”. One user we know of has a piece of text that says something like:

“Have you visited London?” on the London page
“Have you visited Paris?” on the Paris page
“Have you visited Tokyo?” on the Tokyo page
etc.

This is done by having a content block (let’s say ID 820) that has:

Have you visited [ls_content_block getvar=”varplace”]?

Then on each page you define the variable when calling the block:

On the London page you have: [ls_content_block id=”820″ varplace=”London”]
On the Paris page you have: [ls_content_block id=”820″ varplace=”Paris”]
On the Tokyo page you have: [ls_content_block id=”820″ varplace=”Tokyo”]
etc.

That way, you still have the modularity, but also have the flexibility to have slightly bespoke text on each page/post where the content block is called.

Do let us know if this is useful to you.

• This reply was modified 9 years ago by Loomisoft.

Hi Shanti (@shantirubens)

Glad you like the plugin and many thanks for the positive review.

Regards,

Artem

Hi @scottlush

Apologies for the late reply. We had one of our main team members taken long term ill in hospital, which was having a knock on effect on all work we undertake. I’m glad to say that he is back in action and we also have an extra team member on board to prevent this kind of scenario.

On your question, I have to be honest that an import utility is something that has been considered, but we have not made any real plans whether to implement or not.

Another user seems to suggest that in his case he was able to fairly quickly change all existing Global Content Block entries by doing MySQL queries and replacing.

I’m wondering if a plugin like this might be useful: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/better-search-replace/

Do let us know.

Regards,

Artem

You’re welcome. Thanks for the original suggestion. It’s a great addition to the plugin.

Hi Ian

Thanks for your question.

Can you confirm how you are calling the content block (e.g. the exact shortcode, etc.) and what you are setting the filtering option (para) to?

Also, can you confirm how you are calling the meta slider?

Hi @alexgso

Thanks for your comments. It’s funny I was reading this support article earlier https://siteorigin.com/thread/outputting-additional-p-tag/ so it’s really good to hear from you directly on this post. Agree with your suggestions to @fususu.

Also, thanks for the vote of confidence. That would be great. All recommendations are greatly appreciated.