adding text into a specifc area of a wordpress site WordPress

derekshirk answers:

You could register a new widget by placing this in your functions.php file



<?php
register_sidebar( array(
'name' => 'new-text-widget-name',
'id' => 'left-sidebar',
'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="%2$s widget">',
'after_widget' => '</div>',
'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
'after_title' => '</h3>'
) );

?>




Then place the following in your theme where you want the text to appear:

<?php if (!dynamic_sidebar("new-text-widget-name") ) : ?>
Default right sidebar stuff here…
<?php endif; ?>



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This example will create a new simple text widget for you to input text into. Then in order to have this widget output the text you will need to place a tiny bit of php into the page tempates where you want the code to appear. For example you could place the following code into your page.php, single.php, index.php or any other custom page templates you have set up.

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Kailey Lampert answers:

I have a "site components" plugin that I use just for this purpose. I'd be happy to email it to you and help you get it setup.

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Andrzej answers:

Use OptionTree plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/option-tree/

Then create custom option in the back-end and add following code to template:

<?php echo get_option_tree('option_name') ?>

use 'option_name' which you just created in back-end.

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Kristin Falkner answers:

You can set up a special category called Quote of the Month, for example. Then create a post and file it under that category with whatever content. To pull it to the header or wherever you would like, use:

<em><?php $my_query = "cat=<strong>CATID#OFQUOTEOFTHEMONTHCATEGORY</strong>&showposts=1"; $my_query = new WP_Query($my_query); ?>
<?php if ($my_query->have_posts()) : while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
insert any code for formatting the post content here
<?php endwhile; // end of one post ?>
<?php endif; //end of loop ?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?></em>

You can also use the Advanced Category Excluder plug-in to simplify excluding this category from any other loops if you don't know the code to exclude them manually.

As the other answers demonstrate, there are a variety of ways to go about doing this. My method uses posts. You can accomplish what you're trying to do a million different ways.

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Sébastien | French WordpressDesigner answers:

You can use this code in your header.php here you want have the orange zone


<?php
query_posts('post_type=page&pagename=orangezone');//the slug of the page is orangezone

//The Loop
if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<div id="orange">

<h3>Quote of the month</h3>
<div class="alignleft"><?php the_post_thumbnail( array(100,100) ); ?></div>
<div><?php the_content(); ?></div>

</div>
<?
endwhile;
else:
endif;
//Reset Query
wp_reset_query();
?>


div id="orange" is the orange zone.

You must create a page with this title : orangezone
in this page, add a content and add a post_thumbnail and the orange zone appears in the header. If there is no content and no post_thumbnail, the orange zone disappears.

Of course, you must designed the div with the css

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paul de wouters answers:

you could use this plugin to format the contents of the widget area: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-widget/

it enables a WYSIWYG widget and a "content block" custom post type.