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wenmiester
Member
I'd like to add the facebook shortcode to the end of the post meta section (between the title of a blog post and the content, where it lists date, author, category, etc.). I want to embed it in the code so that I don't have to add it to every blog post manually. Which PHP file would I insert the shortcode in?
Here's the shortcode I would use: [fblike layout="standard" show_faces="true" action="recommend" colorscheme="light"]
thanks!
Elliott
Support
Try this wenmiester, http://mysitemyway.com/docs/index.php/Using_Child_Themes#Types_of_PHP_customization
I kind of rambled on a bit. I'll probably end up splitting it up into multiple articles and adding some images later.
Let me know how it works for you.
wenmiester
Member
thanks Elliot, this is really close to what I'm looking for. I also forgot to mention that I'm using the InFocus 2.0 theme. What I'm specifically looking for is the code that will put the facebook button directly to the right of the "category" data in the post_meta section, so that when rendered on a single blog post page, all of the post meta info will sit directly to the left of the facebook button.
the code you provided in the tutorial nicely inserts the facebook like button directly beneath the featured image, but I would like for it to appear to the right of the category data (in between the two dividers that "house" all of the post metadata).
Hopefully that makes sense.
thanks for your help!
wenmiester
Member
it looks like that didn't work. I imagine that it will be more along the lines of inserting the facebook shortcode into the php generation of the actual post meta data, instead of tweaking the CSS. I basically just need the facebook button to always be the last thing to appear in the post meta data section. Tweaking the CSS with your recommendations moved the facebook button a little closer to the meta data section, but still didn't put it within it. So I think I just need to know where to insert the shortcode in whatever php file that generates the meta data. I hope this makes sense.
thanks for the help!
Hello, Elliott!
I've tried to add [facebook] shortcode as you proposed here http://mysitemyway.com/docs/index.php/Using_Child_Themes#Redeclaring_functions - by adding this code to 'functions.php' file (inFocus on my site http://greyarium.com/blog/):
<?php
add_action('mysite_singular-post_before_entry', 'my_custom_function', 100);
function my_custom_function()
{
echo do_shortcode('[fblike layout = "standard"]');
echo do_shortcode('[clearboth]');
}
?>The result: It worked, but it removed my theme page backgrounds and changed the color of all the links and hovers to blue (somehow it breaks the theme). Is there an issue to make it work without breaking the theme?
Thanks again for those great explanations on custom mysitemyway-coding!
I'll try to work it out with a plugin not to bother you so much again.
I'll come back to you if I have problems with it..
Thanks for quick replies!
PS: I want it to look like in this screenshot (under the post)
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-social-ring/screenshots/
Just didn't want to add another plugin if this functionality is already implemented in the theme.
But if you have some time, I'll be glad to take your advice :)
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