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Topspin's Wordpress Integration
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Page Template #81

Open softbullets opened 11 years ago

softbullets commented 11 years ago

Hi,

Just casually updated my wordpress plugin to discover it's completely changed. Probably for the better, admittedly, but I'm having some problems with it.

I have read and understand the customize section but the problem I'm having is not tailoring the post to meet my requirements, but the page template.

Previously I had a lovely page template for my store that, amongst other things, didn't include the sidebar. I don't want my topspin store to show up in a 'post' style page, I want to define the page.

It seems like the place to do that would be here: http://www.blahblahblah.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1504&action=edit or using quick edit in the parent page, just as you would with a normal page. But the option to choose a template doesn't exist here as it does in the wordpress pages tabs (that this is modelled on).

Also, I've noticed my store page isn't appearing on the menu called by wp_list_pages in my header. I'd rather not have to append manually. Is anyone else having this problem?

Any help is much appreciated!

Chris

softbullets commented 11 years ago

ps. Yes I did see this thread, but as so many questions are asked it's hard to tell what exactly was 'closed'.

I didn't see the answer to my issue in there anyway, except that I should create single-store.php - this seems like the right solution but it doesn't work, no matter where in my folder hierarchy I put the file.

softbullets commented 11 years ago

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briantmoore commented 11 years ago

Have you check out this wiki page? https://github.com/topspin/topspin-wordpress/wiki/Template-Customization

You could edit your default theme to not include the sidebar on pages, and then create a custom theme for just the specific pages you want to include the sidebar on.

softbullets commented 11 years ago

Hi Brian,

Thank you for the suggestion - I'll look into this when I have some time, but I don't see why I can't just specify a template from the plugin itself. It's a really obvious flaw. A plugin should integrate. I shouldn't have to change my whole theme to work around it. And I don't have the time to anyway.

Somewhere in the plugin there is a bit of code that takes the default template and populates it... Why the hell can't I just specify WHICH template to use? Come to think of it, why doesn't it just work like the old plugin so I can control the page from my normal wordpress pages manager.

It's a bad design and I think topspin need to use some of the money I and others are paying them on a monthly basis to fix it.

Customer satisfaction and all that...

Chris

briantmoore commented 11 years ago

Great point, and thanks for the feedback about the changes in the new plugin vs the old. Version 3.3.3.3 is still stable and working and many users are sticking to it for now (https://github.com/topspin/topspin-wordpress/tree/3.3.3.3). For example, incubuslivebootlegs.com is still using 3.3.3.3 without issues. Are there any features in the newest plugin version your store needs?

This likely isn't what you want to hear, but in case someone else stumbles across this thread with some insight- the plugin is open source. If you have suggestions for improvement please feel free to fork the project and make some changes. Topspin will pay $150 for each commit to the master branch, so if anyone in the community has insight to these issues please feel free to take a stab at them.