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5:19 am
November 10, 2011

julien

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Hi,

The conference program, speaker biographies and tweets looks gorgeous, but is there a way to add extra custom pages, such as logistics informations, access maps & so on ?

thanks

12:38 pm
November 11, 2011

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Hi Julien,

It's possible to do just about anything. The easiest place to add such extra pages is onto the About page. The Conference App provides WordPress hooks to allow this. You'll need to add some code to either an add-on plugin (my preference) or your functions.php file in your theme.

Something like this:

add_filter('the_conference_app_about_pages','my_app_about_pages',1);
function my_app_about_pages($pages){
    $pages[] = array(
        'title' => 'My Extra Page',
        'card' => array(
            'xtype' => 'htmlpage',
            'content' => file_get_contents(dirname(__FILE__).'/the-app/my_extra_page.html')
        )
    );
    return $pages;
}

In this example, it takes the plain HTML contents of the file my_extra_page.html (in the `the-app` directory off of wherever directory the file containing this extra code lives) and puts it into an About page item called “My Extra Page”.

I find this the easiest method because it allows you to just create an HTML page for what you want. If you have any images in the HTML page, and you're taking the app offline, you need to add those images to the manifest using the following hook:

add_action('the_conference_app_print_manifest','my_app_print_manifest');
function my_app_print_manifest(){
    echo 'http://mydomain.com/files/2011/11/my_image.jpg'."\n";
}

Make sense?

Cheers
Tq

1:52 pm
November 15, 2011

jujudellago

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Yes thank you it seems pretty much straightforward. I prepared an offer for a client with a link to the demonstration, I hope he'll go fo it so I can try that out !

9:43 am
November 16, 2011

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Hi Julien,

Awesome. Hope it goes favourably!

Cheers
Tq

3:32 pm
May 10, 2012

PeterLundrigan

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Couple of questions….

Are there plans to allow add on pages to come right from site pages. So they are easy to update and maintain?

After using the code example above in the theme functions. Is there anything special to get the app to update. I refresh the app however, the new page button does not appear in about.

Pete

9:45 am
May 11, 2012

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Hi Pete,

No immediate plans, but that's a good idea. It can be achieved pretty easily with a slight modification to the above code:

add_filter('the_conference_app_about_pages','my_app_about_pages',1);
function my_app_about_pages($pages){
    $page = get_post( 123 ); // Gets post 123 - there are lots of ways to get the specific page you want
    $pages[] = array(
        'title' => 'My Extra Page',
        'card' => array(
            'xtype' => 'htmlpage',
            'content' => apply_filters('the_content',$page->post_content)  // using the apply_filters will process shortcodes
        )
    );
    return $pages;
}

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