合并PHP文件和页面-Wordpress

Question

I am just wrapping up a long term project I have done for a company, but I am really stuck at this point.

I have a cool little page here: http://hagen-etc.com/test/buy/ It is basically showing all their retailers in the right hand side div while you can narrow down the results with the different options on the left side (Javascript based).

Everything works just fine, but I have run into a problem. The thing is, the person I am developing the site for has absolutely zero knowledge about programming and website managment etc, and therefore I need a smart way for her to change it.

I have simplified the procedures several other places on the website using shortcodes with Visual Composer and Shortcoder-plugin.

The problem here is, The Javascript is in footer.php while the actual content is on a Page in the dashboard. How do I make a smart solution so she can easily manage this in a blink of an eye? You can take a look at the source code in the link above if you would like to.

Would love to get some help on this because I am having a hard time figuring out a solution. Maybe a plugin can even do this?

The different areas, countries, cities and retailers are written in HTML in the Page while reas, countries, cities and retailers are written in Javascript in the footer.php. I know I can move the Javascript over to the Page, but the problem is, she would still have to change both the Javascript and the HTML. I would like it to work with Shortcodes in a structure like this:

[countryopen]
[areaopen]
[cityopen]
[retailer][retailer]
[cityclose]
[areaclose]
[countryclose]

How would I go about this? The HTML would be in the top of the file while the Javascript would be in the bottom. I cannot really change both things with just one shortcode. How would I do this or is there even a better solution?

Answer 1

So essentially you are trying to allow this person to manage locations? You can use Advanced Custom Fields for WordPress and/or custom posts types for WordPress .

I would use a combination. Create a new custom post type in your functions.php and then, after installing the ACF plugin, create Location, Area, City, and Retailer fields and assign them to the new post type.

Similarly, in the index "Page" that you are working in now, you can create a query to dump any of these Locations onto the page.

I hope this helps. Let me know if I missed the point here, the question is still a little unclear.

UPDATE: There are many great tutorials that will walk you through creating a custom post type in your WordPress theme. WPBeginner and Smashing Magazine do a really good job of bringing you through this step-by-step. It will be very helpful for you to know how to do this and to understand this as a basic part of WordPress's Model-View-Controller system , here you are creating new views for your users to interact with.

After creating your new custom post type, which will seem like any other post/page in the Edit view, you can use the ACF plugin to easily add new fields to this new custom post type:

In the second section called "Location" you can define what type of posts these fields should be appended to. You would make these inputs says:

Post Type is equal to [Your New Post Type]

Your new post type being "Locations" or "Retailers" or however you want to phrase that. Now, when you check out the Edit view of a new custom post type, you can see these new fields appended to the bottom. Lastly, you may want to remove any field that you wouldn't want your web manager adding information into like WordPress' native Description or Excerpt inputs. You can do this by adding a few lines to your functions.php after you have created the post type:

add_action('init', 'remove_editor_from_retailer');
function remove_editor_from_retailer() {
    remove_post_type_support( 'retailer', 'editor' );
}

Granted that "Retailer" is the name of your custom post type.

Answer 2

You can't have a user updating data in a javascript file. So what you need to do is split the data off from the functionality.

To do this, put a script tag in one of your Wordpress template files, and output the area, country etc. data there as a Javascript variable.

You can manage and fetch this data using any Wordpress method of your choice. Anything that allows the user to update data in the admin area which you can then output in your plugin will work. So a plugin, a shortcode on some specific post, etc. are possibilities.

Then, in your existing Javascript file, remove your hardcoded data and instead pull it from that variable.