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Display content of page before archive loop

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Joshua Stewart
6 years ago · Last reply by Andrew Misplon 6 years ago

I’m trying to customize the archive template for tags. I use tags to associate articles and posts with different subjects. However, I have a page category called “encyclopedia” which gives a summary explanation of the subject. I have the encyclopedia subpages available through a menu.

What I want is to display the encyclopedia page when a tag is clicked, before the post loop with all the relevant pages.

Essentially I want to modify the archive template to check if an encyclopedia page of the same name exists, “/tag/subject101/” -> “/encyclopedia/subject101/”. If the page exists, display that content, and keep the post loop after. If the page does not exist, proceed with the loop as usual.

I’ve looked a the forums for days and still haven’t found any examples. I’d appreciate any pointers!

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  1. Andrew Misplon Staff 6 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Joshua

    Thanks for reaching out.

    I wish we could dive into this here. To remain viable our free support scope is limited to basic usage and troubleshooting questions.

    You’ll need to use a child theme. Here is a useful page on WordPress conditionals: https://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#A_Tag_Page. You’d most likely add your conditional to archive.php copied from the parent to the child.

    For more in-depth help, you might consider a SiteOrigin Premium license. Premium allows us to offer more in-depth advice on customization tasks of this nature. You could also consider codeable.io if you ever wanted to hire a developer to assist.

  2. Joshua Stewart 6 years, 9 months ago

    I figured it out! Added the following code to archive.php.

    <?php
    if (is_tag()) {
        $tag = get_queried_object();
        $tagslug = $tag->slug;
        $page_path = '/encyclopedia/'.$tagslug;
        if( ! $encyc = get_page_by_path( $page_path, OBJECT, 'page' ) ){
            echo 'No encyclopedia entry exists for '.$tagslug.'. Contact the editor to request one.';
        } else{
          echo '<div class="encyclopedia-preview">';
                $post = get_post($encyc); 
    $title = apply_filters('the_title', get_post_field('post_title', $post)); 
    $content = apply_filters('the_content', $post->post_content); 
          $excerpt = get_the_excerpt($post);
          $link_title = "Encyclopedia, under: $title";
          $line_of_code = "<h1><a href= $page_path>$title</a></h1>";
    echo $line_of_code;
    echo $excerpt;
          echo "</div>";
        }  
    echo '<div class = "tag-header">Tagged pages:</div>';
    echo "<div> </div>";
    }
    ?>
  3. Andrew Misplon Staff 6 years, 9 months ago

    Awesome! Really glad to hear you’ve been making progress. Thanks for sharing your work here :)

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