valarcher

Thank you! Please can you post here when you’ve upgraded to 5.6 so I get email notification? and can then apply your fix to my site

thank you! I inserted it into functions.php ’cause I figure it may be speedier than using a plugin :

Meanwhile for insert_php I tried creating a php.ini in root with this one line (as per my web host tech support’s advice):

allow_url_include = On

and now when I test this:

[insert_php] include(“http://greensmoothie.com/wp-content/themes/1green/1cde/insertphp01.php”); [/insert_php]

I get this error message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘:’ in C:\wamp\wwwgn\wp-content\plugins\insert-php\insert_php.php(48) : eval()’d code on line 1

I no longer need insert_php but I thought I’d pass the error message on 🙂

Hi Will –

> It looks like the PHP configuration doesn’t have URL include wrappers enabled

thank you! I’ll ask tech support if they can do that because I don’t have a php.ini in my root

I tried these two:

[insert_php]
echo file_get_contents_(“http://greensmoothie.com/wp-content/themes/1green/1cde/insertphp01.php”);
[/insert_php]

[insert_php]
echo include(“http://greensmoothie.com/wp-content/themes/1green/1cde/insertphp01.php”);
[/insert_php]

and get a single error message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘:’ in /home/eatsprou/public_html/wp-content/plugins/insert-php/insert_php.php(48) : eval()’d code on line 2

What I’d really love to do is use shortcodes, but the plugin everyone recommends – Global Content Blocks plug-in – is no longer available.

I’m looking at these pages:
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-a-shortcode-in-wordpress/
http://pastie.org/9454401
http://www.problogdesign.com/wordpress/working-with-wordpress-shortcodes/

but don’t know enough about php to write the function that will display the contents of “insertphp01.php” when I enter [shortcode-name] into the post.

Do you perhaps know how to do this?

thanks million, Val

Hi Eric – thank you! Yes your link is the way to get any wordpress plugin to work on a non-wordpress page. Tracy at http://www.worldoweb.co.uk/ also showed me the same way. So I have Ajax testimonials working now perfectly on my non-wordpress pages.

In your non-wordpress page’s html, this must be before doctype:
<?php require ‘../wp-blog-header.php’;?>

This must be last before </head>:
<?php wp_head(); ?><!–enables js+css to load for wp plugins–>

And this must be last before </body>
<?php wp_footer(); ?><!–enables js+css to load for wp plugins–>

The loop isn’t required.

thanks! – Val

I’ve tried this:

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
    [ic_do_testimonials quantity='30' speed='6000' fade_in='600' fade_out='700' group='writing']
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

but that fails to display anything. So I tried this:

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
    <?php echo do_shortcode("[ic_do_testimonials quantity='3' speed='6000' fade_in='600' fade_out='700' group='writing']"); ?>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

and it also displays a blank.

Do you perhaps have any idea how I can use your wordpress plugin on a non-wordpress page? This page also makes it sound easy:

http://www.worldoweb.co.uk/2012/display-your-wordpress-recent-posts-on-a-static-page

thank you! – Val

The dev page is here – http://dev.greensmoothie.com/ – although you’ll see I’ve de-activated ic_do_testimonials so the menu will work. Paul at sitepoint says “I don’t know if this is the issue but you seem to be using 2 versions of jquery. One at the top and one at the bottom. Only use one version otherwise you will get conflicts.” So I’m just waiting to hear from him which one I can delete!

P.S. the fact that it was the aewber subscribe form also explains why my testimonials stopped rotating on localhost too – because I had the form locally too, calling up the same js on the aweber server that my website does. It’s the javascript on the aweber server that’s such a mess and is fouling things up for everyone else.