rafaelfaria

Hi Paoletto82,m

I think what you want is to register a sidebar widget for your footer on functions.php like (search for register_sidebar and add just below the one(s) that will be ther by default)

register_sidebar( array (
	    'name' => 'Footer Area',
	    'id' => 'footer_widget_area',
	    'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget-container %2$s">',
	    'after_widget' => "</div>",
	    'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
	    'after_title' => '</h3>',
	  ) );

Go to the Widgets and drag and drop this and any other plugin you want to put on the footer than on footer.php call like this:

<?php if ( is_sidebar_active('footer_widget_area') ) : ?>
	<?php dynamic_sidebar('footer_widget_area'); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Hope it helps!!

I did a quick shortcode to display on my homepage:

in the custom-post-type.php constructor i added:

add_shortcode($this->slug, array($this, 'plugin_shortcode') );

Than i created 2 other functions

function plugin_shortcode($atts) {

$file = get_stylesheet_directory(). “/home/”.$this->slug.”.php”;

if ( !file_exists( $file ) )
return false;

$args = array(
‘post_type’ => $this->slug,
‘post_status’ => ‘publish’,
‘posts_per_page’ => is_numeric($atts[‘count’]) ? $atts[‘count’] : 5,
‘order’ => ‘DESC’
);
$posts = query_posts($args);
wp_reset_query();

$items = Array();
$pne = ‘press-news-events’;

foreach($posts as $k => $item) {

$link = get_permalink($item->ID);

$date = get_post_meta($item->ID, ‘_date’, true);

$item->day = date_i18n(__(‘d’, $pne), $date);
$item->month = date_i18n(__(‘M’, $pne), $date);
$item->year = date_i18n(__(‘Y’, $pne), $date);
$item->title = $item->post_title;
$item->link = (strpos($link, ‘http://’) !== false) ? $link : “http://{$link}”;

$items[$k] = $item;
}

return $this->render_template($file, $items);
}

function render_template($template, $data){

if ( !file_exists( $template ))
return;

ob_start();
include($template);
$html = ob_get_clean();
return $html;
}

than all i had to do was call like:

[news count=10]

or [events count=10]

and it would get the template from a folder called “home” in my themes and display the html. 🙂

hope it helps.