The CLAS News website homepage utilizes features from our “News Website Template” plugin.
This plugin utilizes three page templates that will only load when the plugin is active.
Page Templates
- Home Page Template
- Each section on the home page is a post (including the Submit a Story and Ytori sections). If an image for these sections needs to be changed, go to that post in the WP dashboard and change the featured image.
- Pulls in posts from these category slugs
- featured-news
- Pulls in the most recent post
- recent-news
- More News link is hardcoded to send the user to that page
- alumni-spotlight
- Pulls in the most recent post
- clas-news
- Pulls in 4 posts from this category.
- research-news
- Pulls in 4 posts from this category
- clas-videos
- Pulls in most recent post. ACF is used to create the URL field for the video. Video opens up using Bootstrap Modal.
- awards-honors
- 5 most recent posts are displayed
- submit-news
- Link to submit news
- ytori
- Link to Ytori page. Image can be updated by changing the featured image of this post.
- featured-news
- Featured Article Template
- Article Template
- Archive Templates
- Blog Page
- Displays news from all the categories shown in the home page.
- To add another category to the query, add ID number to query in all-news.php template
Custom Functionality
This plugin has some built in custom functionality:
- Ability to share articles to Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn
- Ability to add a donation button after the article with custom text and link.
- Related posts are also displayed at the bottom of an article.
- Pop up with Emma form embedded inside (iframe)
- Hide author and/or featured image on articles (Checkbox shows up on right hand side)
- Avoids duplicate posts from showing up on the home page
- Displays a modal on the home page when user clicks on CLAS Video
Plugins Needed
- Advanced Custom Fields
- This plugin adds the custom fields that someone can fill out in the WP dashboard when looking at an individual post
- Sub heading
- Support Link
- Support Text
- This plugin adds the custom fields that someone can fill out in the WP dashboard when looking at an individual post
- News Website Template