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Need (good) advice
Hi folks ;)
For a current project, I need to display a block of text (a kind of ads to promote my client’s services) in front of all blogs contents.
These blocks must be chosen (by article id or by other internal choice system) or/and chosen randomly (so this is a limited list of static articles).
What’s the best plugin for this?
It seems there are a specialized smd_x plugin.
Thanks lot for your (best) advice.
Patrick.
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Re: Need (good) advice
Hi Patrick,
If I understand you correctly. You need a kind of a randomiser of short phrases to be included in all pages.
In which case I would go the semi native way and use the links tab. I posted a tutorial on txptips regarding randomisation.
Yiannis
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Thanks lot!
Yeah, randomly or not (may be my client wants to choose a particular text to display).
But categories can be a good alternative in order to choose what to display.
Cool. Tks Yiannis.
Last edited by Pat64 (2015-06-22 14:12:55)
Patrick.
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Pat64 wrote #291806:
Thanks lot!
Yeah, randomly or not (may be my client wants to choose a particular text to display).
Building on what I posted there, it could be
<txp:hide>the id number of the link in the linklist</txp:hide>
<txp:variable name="linkurl" value='<txp:link_url />' />
<txp:if_custom_field name="quotenumber">
<txp:linklist id='<txp:custom_field name="quotenumber" />'>
<blockquote><txp:link_description escape="" />
<cite><txp:link_title /></cite></blockquote>
<footer><a href="<txp:variable name="linkurl" />" rel="external"><txp:link_title /></footer></blockquote>
</txp:linklist>
<txp:else />
<txp:hide>if there is no quote id associated with a particular article, pick one at random</txp:hide>
<txp:linklist category="my_link_list_quotes_category" limit="1" sort="rand()" wraptag="" />
<txp:if_variable name="linkurl" value="">
<blockquote><txp:link_description escape="" />
<cite><txp:link_title /></cite></blockquote>
<txp:else />
<blockquote cite="<txp:variable name="linkurl" />"><txp:link_description escape="" />
<footer><a href="<txp:variable name="linkurl" />" rel="external"><txp:link_title /></footer></blockquote>
</txp:if_variable>
</txp:linklist>
</txp:if_custom_field>You could of course edit the above to suit your own needs.
Yiannis
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Ok. I see (and categories could be a good choice too).
Tks Yiannis ;)
Patrick.
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smd_featured with the sort="rand()" limit="1" attributes might be a good fit too.
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Thanks lot Jakob.
Patrick.
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