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The Wordpress installation process worked very well - and faster than my experience with Joomla and Drupal - I also uninstalled and reinstalled easily too. The backend worked without any problem as well

The main issue I had is with front-end Civi pages - they all behave as if they are the home page (ie include widgets set to only appear on the front page and appear alongside other posts).

For example, on my testing site, here's:
 - an event page - http://football.micro-major.com/?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/event/info&reset=1&id=1
 - a contribution page - http://football.micro-major.com/?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/contribute/transact&reset=1&id=1
 - a profile page - http://football.micro-major.com/?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/profile/create&gid=1&reset=1
in each it appears that the Civi page is within the top blog post, the second post appears below. The Blogroll links widget is set to only appear on the front page of the site - but it appears on every Civi page too.

Perhaps I am doing something wrong with the URL for each page? Tho it seems to be similar on the demo site.

thanks,

Nic

Thanks. Shortcodes would be great.

I am guessing in the meantime I could use conditional tags (http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags) to change the default blog template if it's a Civi-related page. Or use iFrames..

nic

ps - 4.1 looks brilliant.

Which all leaves me wondering why the front end is using the front page/Main Page Template to include Civi pages, rather than the standalone Page Template?

Can you investigate WP code / interface and figure out how you would go about doing this? i.e. use the standalone page template rather than the main template

thanx

lobo

I'm not a developer but very keen in solving this issue - I agree, it is making the wordpress plugin close to unusable. I did some digging in the wordpress forums, and found the link in the file I uploaded (I can't post links here for some reason)

Would it be useful?

Anthony

I suspect shortcodes will solve most of the issues mentioned in this thread. This will be part of beta2 out next week or so

lobo

First of all @Lobo - thanks for prioritising the shortcode support - this will surely be invaluable.

In the meantime, I have also figured out a workaround to make the civicrm pages use the format I want them to. Assuming you are using 'SEO friendly' permalinks:

- if you type the address as www.blogindex.com?page=CiviCRM then the civicrm page will use the index-page template
- if you type the address as www.blogindex.com/anypage?page=CiviCRM then the civicrm page will use template of anypage

This leads to a possible easy development solution (apart from shortcodes) by which a user could define a default 'parent' page for the CiviCRM as part of installation.

Hi Lobo,

I'm hardly an expert, but here goes. Wordpress chooses which template to use for the page based on the following rules:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

Thus, if you were to create www.blogindex.org/page, for most users it would use the page.php which is present in most themes, and revert back to index.php if it didn't exist.

However, if I create a custom-template called anypage.php, it would automatically revert to that template for anypage.

For CiviCRM I have hacked the alpha 1 version to do this the way I need for now, by changing the code in CRM/Utils/System/Wordpress.php from:
        if ( is_admin() && !$frontend ) {
            $base .= 'wp-admin/admin.php';
        }to
        if ( is_admin() && !$frontend ) {
            $base .= 'wp-admin/admin.php';
        } else {
            $base .= 'anypage';
        }This works perfectly, and lets me use whatever template I please (as long as I call it anypage). What would be left to do would be to turn anypage into a user-set variable, where they could enter the page-id or page-slug of anypage, and thus apply the template that is applied to that template.

I should caution that this applies to an installation that is using the 'post name' option from the permalinks settings in wordpress....i have a feeling it would not necessarily work exactly the same under other configurations, although can't be sure since haven't tested it.

Is that helpful?