You guys have helped a lot this week and I hate to bother you again, but this forum is the only place that seems to know what it is talking about. If you haven't noticed I am spending this week updating a few of my site (long time coming) so after this week I hope not to be such a nuisance.

This is real tricky for me and even stumped the plugin developer... I am running Featurific on all three of my sites (paid for version) and it works well on main pages. I would like to add it to author pages and archive pages. I also want to apply the shadow box and moz border to it. I contacted the plugin developer Rich and this was his reply:

Thanks for your email. To add the plugin to the author and archive pages, you're going to have to do some Wordpress magic. I'm not a WP expert, but I imagine it would entail creating a custom template page for those pages and adding the Featurific code there. Maybe there's a plugin available for adding arbitrary code to a specific page?

As for the moz border and shadow box, the best way to do that is to simply edit featurific.php. Find the portion of the file that outputs the Featurific HTML, and simply add in the code there. That way, any time Featurific is generated, it will have the moz-border and shadow box. Alternatively (maybe easier), you could just add what you need via CSS and not worry about the HTML at all.

I understand this is not related to ATA but I am hoping to get some input regarding these projects. Hopefully there is some way to add them using ata magic or css insert. Any ideas?


Also, on the page menu thing. I got it fixed on two sites and looks good. On DCS http://www.digitalcombatsoldiers.com/ there is a % that is showing up below the menu. Any ideas on this?

This is easy,
1) edit index.php and find the line (line 16 in 3.7.1)

	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $bfa_ata['postcount']++; ?>

change it to

	<?php bfa_widget_area('name= Featurific widget area'); ?>
	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $bfa_ata['postcount']++; ?>

2) view the site
3) go to 'Widgets' and add in a text widget
4) put the code in the text widget
5) install the 'exec-php' and 'dynamic widgets' or 'widget logic' plugins and configure the text widget for the pages you want.

Figures, easy for you to say... I am using 3.5.1 on the two sites I want to do this to. I checked and did not see those lines in index.php.

I have:

<?php /* If there are any posts: */
if (have_posts()) : $bfa_ata['postcount'] == 0; /* Postcount needed for option "XX first posts full posts, rest excerpts" */ ?>

and

<?php /* The LOOP starts here. Do this for all posts: */
while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $bfa_ata['postcount']++; ?>

Once I have the widget what code should I place in it?

Will it appear centered on top of the page as it does on the main page?

And what about that % below the page menu on left?

in 3.5.1 you can put it in 'Content ABOVE the LOOP' but it won't work once you upgrade...

Will it appear centered on top of the page as it does on the main page?

it will appear in the middle area above the first post

Okay, have widget, what code do I need to place in it? and which one of those plugins:

'exec-php' and 'dynamic widgets' or 'widget logic'

should I install? or do I need to install them now?

I installed the exec-php plugin. When I went to post an article it gave me a warning saying all php code within the post would be rendered useless. Since I have no idea what that means I disabled it till I know for sure. I have posts coming in that need publishing.

Are you familiar with this warning? It said I can disable the warning. Do I need to install this plugin since I placed the widget in the 'above the loop'.

I do not want to create any problems if I do not need to...