Universal Content Placement Across Themes

[Angelic Girl]

I'd like to have a plugin where I can use text across multiple skins without having to update several at one time. Perhaps in a <div class="MYCLASS"></div> or a <span="MYCLASS"></span> and place my text/html in that span where it's located at in my template.  And also, it would be cool if I could do it more than once in a plugin so I can update news, affiliates, awards, that sort of thing. So different universal text, I suppose, if that makes any sense. =)  I have tons of templates on my site and it would be helpful if I didn't have to go to Forum Wrappers every time to update things if something new is added. ;.;  Anyway, thanks so much for considering <3

[leif]

Yes please! This would be a godsend instead of having to update multiple wrappers/templates to update standard text!

I know, I know, use Headers/Footers, but it limits us.

I would love to have a plugin in the admin area where I can put in HTML content like:<b>NEWS UPDATE</b><br />The Ministry has Fallen, more details here, here, here, and here! Join us!The problem with doing updates? You gotta update several skins which is tricky and gives us a chance to screw something up accidently.

Being able to enter it into an admin panel, and getting a div id or class (it can simply say include <div id="universaltext1"></div> where you'd like the content to appear in your wrappers or templates.

This would be amazing for us.

[Former Member]

Check this to see if it'd work for you or not, otherwise I guess just bump away

[leif]

I'd prefer to bypass headers/footers directly. To keep it easy as possible from an admining, not a coding side a plugin would be best. Similar to like how sidebar redux or tabbed tables are, but you just place the span or div ids anywhere and use the plugin to fill in the data.

That method seems intimating for newer admins. Newer and less tech savvy admins can easily paste in a div id given anywhere. But, having to modify it constantly like that can cause errors, and messing up.

[Wormopolis]

there is a plugin called "Global Messages".. wouldnt that work?

[leif]

Jan 16, 2014 20:16:45 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

there is a plugin called "Global Messages".. wouldnt that work?

Wormopolis while that is similar to what I'd like and I believe Angelic Girl would like it is missing some things. Thanks for that, that'd come in handy for other things. Would screenshots be easier?

Fill out raw HTML on admin page much like this:

So perhaps a field for ID and a field for the Message.


Use something like:
<div id="FIELDID"></div>
Place that in your theme to be used in places like:


So basically we'd create four different fields of text for that. Name them four different things like plot, affiliates, awards, and news. Fill in HTML for those four things.

Now place four tidbits like:
<div id="plot"></div>
Where the plot information goes in the forum wrappers for six different themes.

<div id="affiliates"></div>
Use that on all 19 different themes because we have a placement there.

Etc. So when we get a new affiliate we don't have to open every single theme to edit them. Not using a plugin because want a different location then the plugin location, like in the sidebar which is entirely different then the other plugin.

When there's a new site event, no need to update 6 different themes, can easily just update through the plugin.

So basically custom content placement anywhere on a site with those special tags. Can even use things like {UNIVERSALPLOT} in the template coding.

There's no built in option in ProBoards to make universal content/variables to place in a themes, so I'd personally like a plugin for that.

[Boy_Wonder]

Just saying I'd love to see something like this - even if I'd only use it for one box as it were (News) which gets placed in different places depending on skin

[Wormopolis]

the identifiers for each HTML piece would have to be unique or it will overwrite previous inserts.

[leif]

Jan 21, 2014 13:44:02 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

the identifiers for each HTML piece would have to be unique or it will overwrite previous inserts.

As in like each class="myclass" or id="myid" would have to be unique? that's what I'd like honestly. A simple way to place <div id="universalcontent1"></div> anywhere in my design and have it replaced with the universalcontent1. Then somewhere else I can do universalcontent2

[Wormopolis]

ok. the way it will work is it looks for an element with id="whatever", where "whatever" is the identifier in the plugin settings for the HTML box it inserts.

now.. because even admins get it wrong, let me caution you what might happen. whenever you "inject" html into an element already on a page, you run the risk of the browser misinterpreting the markup because its not done correctly. like opening a div tag in the middle of a table but not closing it. or putting a bunch of opening blockquote tags but never closing them. it will be prudent that you check the HTML over on a custom page to see how it looks before you make it go live on the site and get pushed into everyone's pages.

I will put a link to a dropbox tonight. if you have any clever names for this plugin, other then "HTML content placer" Im all ears.


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[Wormopolis]

Angelic Girl leif Boy_Wonder

dropbox link above

[leif]

Thank you Wormopolis! Will test this out now!

I'm not good at naming. Wormo's Camelot, for a unification of theme content? Haha. I'm bad at this.

Edit: Wormo, THIS IS PERFECT! Freaken perfect. I tested it in several themes, works without any problems. I haven't ran into any snags yet! This is perfectly easy to use and provides an amazing amount of functionality! Thank you!

Edit: I love how more of them keep appearing as I add more. Wormo, you completely revolutionized how I'm going to approach things now!

• omnipresent induction
• ubiquitous content
• wormo's god mode html placement backdoor

[Boy_Wonder]

Wormo - how about the Content Controller or the A.C.C (Additional Content Controller)

[leif]

Jan 21, 2014 23:03:03 GMT -8 Boy_Wonder said:

Wormo - how about the Content Controller or the A.C.C (Additional Content Controller)

I like those!

Omnipresent Content Controller maybe to reference universal?

[Wormopolis]

I think it might be important to keep HTML in the title.. so maybe HTML Content Controller?


although calling a plugin "Camelot" would make it sound so mysterious...