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andreapace
3,974 PointsHome Redirect Banners
Hi everyone
I'm facing a problem with the creation of a new site. In the hero section right after the header menu, I need to create a masonry of boxes with custom content that redirects to specific site pages. I need to avoid the owner of site to "destroy" divs and specific classes so I would not put it into the html editor of the home page. I want to create that section inside my home.php so the owner cannot modify it. The problem is how can I write page link into .php file without having to modify links everytime i move from local to live? It would be better if the link will be taken from the database so i could easily change it with sql queries
to better understand what i want to create i link you a image of the hero section
https://postimg.org/image/hc1m9vaa9/
That is my second site on wordpress and I still need to understand a lot of things especially when I move sites from local to live.
Thank you so much guys!
Have a great day
Andrea
3 Answers
Joel Bardsley
31,249 PointsIf you're absolutely certain the blocks will remain the same, and can ensure the page/post ids for these blocks would be the same between your local and live versions; instead of custom fields and a loop I'd suggest just echoing the permalink produced by the get_page_link function in your markup.
andreapace
3,974 PointsHi Joel, thank you for your answer, from what I actually know, the blocks will remain always the same (position, content etc). So i need to create custom fields inside the page that I want to point to and then display them with a loop inside the container? I know how to do that for posts but for specific pages I cannot figure out how doin' it.
andreapace
3,974 PointsThank you so much Joel for your precious tips, I have a lot of codex function's to learn and this one was exactly what I was lookin' for.
Have a nice day!
Joel Bardsley
31,249 PointsJoel Bardsley
31,249 PointsHi Andrea,
Just so I can get a better understanding of what you're trying to achieve, will the pages in the masonry container always stay the same (same content, position etc) or will it be flexible to allow for future pages that haven't been made yet?
From what I can tell, I would lean towards using a wordpress loop inside your masonry container and have it generate the custom content (custom field) and page link (get_permalink) for each masonry item that way.
If you don't think that would work for you, or need further information of how I would implement it, please let me know and I'll be able to advise further.