I have been trying to add a contact page to a theme so just copied the index found in the theme's directory and took out the body and put in my contact details... and put a link in the index to the contact.php page.. just a blank page showed..so changed the contact page to a straight forward html one and the same... so moved it to my root directory and it works.. Any idea how I can link a contact page to the themes index and leave it in the themes directory?
The correct way to link to a "custom" page in a theme is a link like:
/zenphoto/page/ (assuming you have mod_rewrite set. If mod_rewrite is not set use /zenphoto/index.php?p=)
`will have.phpappended to it to load that custom page. Naturally, this assumes that your install is in thezenphoto` folder.
So, as an example, the "archive" pages of the standard themes are linked by
.../page/archive or ...index.php?p=archive.
Hi - just uninstalled word press as I only want a couple of pages - decided to concentrate on images and not words! - before that I used another database system which was a bit over complicated really.. so I decided to simplify...my problem is that I can use html pages if I can think back that far...but they seem to have to be in the root directory and not the theme directory which could be a problem if I want to do anything else? and I don't understand why this is so...
Ok looked at everything and the index page is fine - see http://www.merrylegsfalabellas.com - and the 'contact' link is at the bottom - it shows the path http://www.merrylegsfalabellas.com/themes/default/contact.php - in the index.pho and the path is "themes/default/contact.php " so that's right but when I click on it I get a blank page with blank page source - not the contact page that should be there. I've basically take the index page and removed the album loop and the title... but can't get anything to display, not even a blank page with just the source.
Can anyone please help - unless I create this page in html with a brand new css style sheet then it doesn't want to show itself. other people seem to have taken the index page and used this as a basis so why can't I?
You didn't look at our theming tutorial as I recommended above, did you? You did everything right except for the url.
[i]Custom pages with the example of archive.php and slideshow.php
“Custom pages†are additional pages that do not display actual gallery stuff like albums or images. You can have multiple custom pages that are called with the url
zenphoto/index.php?p=pagetitle (non mod_rewrite)
or
zenphoto/page/pagetitle (mod_rewrite)[/i]
http://www.zenphoto.org/2008/05/theming-tutorial/#custom-pages
I knew that this would happen...:-) Indeed it will allow that. Recent updates (like localization) to zenphoto made is necessary to rework a few things and since it will additionally feature a news section (a mini blog if you will) I need to intregrate the comments with Zenphoto's (to save myself from doubling code and maintaining too much separatly). Sadly some other things prevented me from working on it as much as I would like to. I hope to put it out next month. It will be announced in our news section (and it will have it's own project site with the yet to be written documentation). Thanks for your interesst and patience!
No I think I must be either extremely thick or its my age! - my path is /themes/default/contact.php so should I be putting "(mod_rewrite) after this or just /themes/default/contact.php(mod_rewrite) or the full url/themes/default/contact.php on its own - none of these seem to work anyway...
- you don't make it very clear ... my zenphoto is in fact in the root directory as I did install wordpress and it was advised to keep this seperate for updates etc... I do know that this issue of extra pages has been raised before but no-one has explained how to link fully...
I do like this software and would love to be able to just get one page with text on it.. but If I can't I will just have to buy one of those substandard template programs.
Just use http://www.merrylegsfalabellas.com/page/contact, if none mod rewrite this would be http://www.merrylegsfalabellas.com/index.php?p=contact. If you do this Zenphoto considers it as a "theme page", you don't need to link directly.
We actually recommend using zenphoto within a folder if using with another CMS like Wordpress. This is just to prevent .htaccess conflicts since both programms have their own.
Anyway I just tried it on your site with your contact test page. Both ways work.
acrylian, thanks for the latest on zenpage, it sounds brilliant. I (and I'm sure others too) appreciate the time and work going in to this plugin ( and of course to the whole zenphoto project), I think you are going to have a lot of users for zenpage and attract a lot of new users to zenphoto.
thanks:-)
Acrylian my favourite developer,
Is there any chance you could release a pre-beta version of this plugin? I'll be doing a website tomorrow that'll involve a few simple pages, and I'd love to have even a really buggy plugin handy, if at all possible.
You'll notice my current hack is quite ugly:
http://noscope.com/shop/pages/FAQ.gif/view
Note the "FAQ.gif" in the URL ;)
I am sorry, I know I am really really slow, but I won't release anything right now. But it will be not hard to add this later to your site and I really appreciate the interesst.
BTW maybe an ugly hack but an inventive one! Who looks at the url..:-) Another workaround I just got the idea of: You can have empty albums if that helps to skip the gif for now. Just upload an empty folder via ftp named FAQ for example and don't publish the album. Then you can directly link to it just containing the description.