Is it possible to create a WordPress page with multiple URLs?
I want one URL per section, all without having duplicate content in SEO.
We don't want to use anchors because they don't have individual rankings like URLs.
There are a lot of plugins that can easily create URLs in bulk for you. I recommend MPG: Multiple Pages Generator because you can customize the content of each page to avoid duplicate content and it's incredibly easy to manage all of your new pages once they’re created.
You just need to have all your products and their variable data in a CSV file and a template page. The plugin creates shortcodes for the information from your file and you just need to add those shortcodes to a template page, like:
Visit us at {{mpg_location}}
The best thing is that if you want to edit anything from your CSV or template page, you can do that anytime. Find out more about it here: https://mpg.porthas.com
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If a website needs to have a page for every item, is it better to manually create pages with the same HTML code but different titles/images/descriptions or create only one but add content through javascrpit depending on a page a user followed, like that?
linkBtn.addEventListener('click', function() {
contentEl.innerHTML = `<div>
<div>
<h3>${title}</h3>
</div>
...etc
</div>`
})
or is there less horrible solution?
It is entirely up to you. Compare the stackoverflow website with the gmail one. Stackoverflow reloads the whole website as you navigate between pages. This means that your browser is requesting a new resource and the stackoverflow servers are returning that resource, possibly creating it dynamically with new question etc., but then just sending you raw HTML.
On the other hand, gmail loads once, but then fetches each different page entirely through javascript. This could involve asking the gmail server for new messages, but could also be just reworking the HTML to show a settings page, for instance.
There are obviously advantages and disadvantages to both ways of doing things.
As a side note, in javascript it is not a great idea to assign to innerHTML as this requires that the browser does a lot of work to re-parse the new markdown. Instead you should fully use the DOM model with functions such as document.createElement and Element.appendChild.
You need not create different pages for each product. Rather use HTML as template.
You can use something like handlebars to make templates.
I believe you should create one UI and fill it with data from some REST API. Look into creating dynamic websites, it is basic stuff.
My website sells stuff and I would like to customize the page title and meta description in certain pages when certain items are viewed. I would want these custom titles and descripts to be listed when shared on other websites. E.g.: Twitter, FB, etc...
Basically I want to customize the title and description based on the query string values. How is this possible? I've looked a js based plugin or similar on github as well but had no luck.
The issue with JavaScript rendered pages is that there's no guarantee a scraper will pick up the meta tags. The headers are read before scripts are run - meaning to lower overhead they likely won't even bother executing it. Better if you write a script that writes customised meta tags to the HTML file.
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?
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.
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.
I'm integrating a 3rd party feature into an existing/live Wordpress website using the vendor's Remote HTML Framing Code template.
They are asking me to "convert all paths to full"
Apparently, the Remote HTML Framing Code template needs all URLs on the integration page template to use full explicit paths.
The page template in question is here:
http://www.stonegategardens.com/stonegate-gardens-plant-finder-tool/
Does anyone know what I need to do in order to make this work?
Thanks
Mike
This is a big question. First of all, the stylesheets are currently being added to the header of the document incorrectly. You'll want to properly enqueue scripts and styles. Doing so will automatically convert paths to absolute.
Second, to get content from your /wp-content directory, you'll want to use something like content_url() to get the absolute url to the content directory.
Third, you can always return the URL of the site by using site_url(), and the URLs of pages (for example, the links in your navigation) by using get_permalink() and doing something like:
The Florist
Better yet, use WordPress as a CMS, and let it manage the menus by adding proper menus in the admin.
I'm pretty new to web development. What is the best practice in keeping the same sidebar and other elements across web pages on one's site? Do you store the sidebar html and call that? If so, how would one go about doing something like that?
There're many options to handle this problem but I've found easy one using jQuery. Use this if it suits your requirements.
Add the jQuery CDN in your HTML file.
Create a JS file as sidebar.js.
Copy all your HTML code of the sidebar and store as a string variable in a function of the JS file. as
function loadNavbarDiv() {
String navbar_code_str = '<nav><div>...</div></nav>
$('body').append(navbar_code_str);
}
Then in the HTML file, you want to add navigation bar, add folowing code in your <head>
<script src="sidebar.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
loadNavDiv();
});
</script>
It's working fine for me.
Happy coding!
Here's one way to do it: use "include" files. No JavaScript required. The server does the work, instead of requiring the client to add the content.
SSI, or Server Side Includes, were first developed to allow Web
developers to "include" HTML documents inside other pages. If your Web
server supports SSI, it's easy to create templates for your Web site.
Save the HTML for the common elements of your site as separate files.
For example, your navigation section might be saved as navigation.html
or navigation.ssi.
Use the following SSI tag to include that HTML in each page.
<!--#include virtual="path to file/include-file.html" -->
Use that same code on every page that you want to include the file.
That page also describes some other approaches. But if you know this is called using include files, you can search for it more easily. For example, this article describes includes and how to call them from JavaScript if you must.
As long as you're only coding in html, you will need to copy your html into every page. You can store the css for the sidebar in one and the same file and call that on every page though.
Other scripting languages and frameworks might contain templates (php) or master pages (asp.net) for example which make it possible to use the same code in different pages.