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Thanks for all of the replies. I'd like to close this. I solved the issue. To recap for others:
I tried the plugin route. They required you to pay a fee for the advanced version of what I wanted to do. This is why I don't like WordPress, but I'm forced to use it because that's what the company has. There's talk that the website will be revamped in a couple of years. If I'm around, I plan to strongly recommend that WP NOT be used.
I found some code online. It was pretty easy to use - just have to a
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well , first of all I'm not sailing anything, just trying to explain how to use and preview a plugin...
many way...
First of all... directly from the extension's page in within WP, you can check for plugin typing for exemple Video in the search field, and you'll get plenty plugin...
Now each plugin offer you a get details link... and from there you'll be in order to investigate...
but you also have the way to use a web search engine to locate a WP Plug in, or directly from the https://wordpress.org/plugins/ web site... all the plugin published there are some how confirmed...
So take the example I gave you in a previous comment ... WP Video Popup
WP Video Popup gives https://wordpress.org/plugins/responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup/
from there you can get the developer web site https://wp-video-popup.com/
and you can get video, and plenty information on what you get, how to configure, set, use, and so on.
then once you got more or less what you could expect... you still have youtube that will shows you more and more tutorial, about https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=WP+Video+Popup
but I agree that some times not...
either if @Deaf_Guy is not interested, could you please count me in... I'm interested to learn how to implement web component in WP without using an home made plugin, or without cannibalizing functions.php throught the child template.
please, believe me, I'm not being ironic or teasing, I'm genuinely curious with an appetite for learning.
By @B i r n o u
Does WP allow you to include your own links to javascript files and insert custom tags into its html code? I assume it's flexible enough to be able to give you that option?
Basically it will be a javascript file including an html template which creates a custom tag. All you then do is link that to the page and insert the custom tag into the html code. You can insert as many instances of the custom tag as required.
Does that sound doable in WP?
Does WP allow you to include your own links to javascript files and insert custom tags into its html code? I assume it's flexible enough to be able to give you that option?
By @osgood_
Well, in fact there are two ways of proceeding, either the direct method, where you pull on the wire to disconnect the plug and turn off the lamp, or you add a switch...
WP's architecture is quite sophisticated, and pulling on the wire can produce a quick result, but over the long term, it's often a pain.
For my part, I prefer to install a switch, because maybe the customer will then want to add a dimmer, or a sound sensor to control switching on, or interfere with the blinds... etc...
So to add a switch from within WP... we have the choice of either
- creating a child template that will offer supplements to the current template
- or create a custom plugin that will achieve the same results but be independent of the template...
- or use a plugin or template that lets you add custom code page by page (links, snippets, etc...), but that's just for sporadic troubleshooting...
that's why I asked the question, to learn and explore other avenues... so far, John Rhea's approach is quite didactic https://css-tricks.com/using-web-components-in-wordpress-is-easier-than-you-think/ if you want to get the idea on how I implement new features on WP
that's why I asked the question, to learn and explore other avenues... so far, John Rhea's approach is quite didactic https://css-tricks.com/using-web-components-in-wordpress-is-easier-than-you-think/ if you want to get the idea on how I implement new features on WP
By @B i r n o u
Probably why I avoid WP. That all reads like its OTT - 'Over The Top' just to include a web-component. That's some kind of what the author calls a 'web-component' but is not a javascript web-component using the shadow dom. What we are talking about are as different as chalk and cheese.
That's some kind of what the author calls a 'web-component' but is not a javascript web-component using the shadow dom. What we are talking about are as different as chalk and cheese.
By @osgood_
What ever you include, that just demonstrate how to include and qeueing script, css, snippet of code... and so on without loosing the editing part of the WP admin interface.
That's some kind of what the author calls a 'web-component' but is not a javascript web-component using the shadow dom. What we are talking about are as different as chalk and cheese.
By @osgood_
What ever you include, that just demonstrate how to include and qeueing script, css, snippet of code... and so on without loosing the editing part of the WP admin interface.
By @B i r n o u
I dont know WP so maybe whatever its doing does something that is required where a client editing the website gets involved. I'm more coming at it from the angle where a knowledgable developer manages the website and the client doesnt get involved. If a client doesnt get involved in the editing there's no need for complicated solutions. I mean what sh*te is going on these days, some developers like to over complicate even the simplest of processes, for reasons I've yet to discover.
I'm more coming at it from the angle where a knowledgable developer manages the website and the client doesnt get involved. If a client doesnt get involved in the editing there's no need for complicated solutions.
By @osgood_
client or not, when it comes to adding and managing content, i.e. the content itself, but also the layout and responsive aspect... all this needs to be kept out of the code, so that we can concentrate solely on content, layout and design... ignoring the rest
That's why, once the WP settings have been made... I mean all the global configurations, including WP, template, plugins, editor and builder... then we can just concentrate on the content,
today, middleware such as Fusion Page Builder, Elementor, King Composer, Beaver Builder, and others... are helping us a lot to improve the integrator experience... which is becoming an undeniable added value and the prerogative of demanding developers.
Basically, the developer concentrates on the first parts to set up the build environment, all the structure, and the machine builder, then the template, plugins, and transversal management... then the customer directly, or the team integrator, concentrates on the content. ... and believe me... I mean it... it's so amazing and so comfortable to use that even as a developer, one quickly get into the swing of things and it's really fun to play with these kinds of tools and approaches... icing on the cake... once you get the hang of it... you can swap projects... nobody becomes indispensable, and everyone continues to work in tandem with each other... and simultaneously... we're really in object architecture and approches
but I understand that there are other approaches... too... and that everyone is different... that's why it's so cool
I'm more coming at it from the angle where a knowledgable developer manages the website and the client doesnt get involved. If a client doesnt get involved in the editing there's no need for complicated solutions.
By @osgood_
client or not, when it comes to adding and managing content, i.e. the content itself, but also the layout and responsive aspect... all this needs to be kept out of the code, so that we can concentrate solely on content, layout and design... ignoring the rest
That's why, once the WP settings have been made... I mean all the global configurations, including WP, template, plugins, editor and builder... then we can just concentrate on the content,
today, middleware such as Fusion Page Builder, Elementor, King Composer, Beaver Builder, and others... are helping us a lot to improve the integrator experience... which is becoming an undeniable added value and the prerogative of demanding developers.
Basically, the developer concentrates on the first parts to set up the build environment, all the structure, and the machine builder, then the template, plugins, and transversal management... then the customer directly, or the team integrator, concentrates on the content. ... and believe me... I mean it... it's so amazing and so comfortable to use that even as a developer, one quickly get into the swing of things and it's really fun to play with these kinds of tools and approaches... icing on the cake... once you get the hang of it... you can swap projects... nobody becomes indispensable, and everyone continues to work in tandem with each other... and simultaneously... we're really in object architecture and approches
but I understand that there are other approaches... too... and that everyone is different... that's why it's so cool
By @B i r n o u
It might be amazing to you but its bordering on junk to me. Show me a WP website and I'll show you junk code......but as you say each to his or her own. I really dont relate to being a developer if I'm just deploying something mostly written by someone else, third party plugins, libraries etc or I have bundles of files in my work folder which I have no idea what they do. There's zero job satifaction in that, to me at least, you could train a monkey to use that kind of workflow. I'd rather be doing something else, more individual, rather than be a lemming.
Does WP allow you to include your own links to javascript files and insert custom tags into its html code? I assume it's flexible enough to be able to give you that option?
Basically it will be a javascript file including an html template which creates a custom tag. All you then do is link that to the page and insert the custom tag into the html code. You can insert as many instances of the custom tag as required.
Does that sound doable in WP?
By @osgood_
@osgood_ , I think that you may be on the right track here, Have a look at Using Web Components in WP
@osgood_ , I think that you may be on the right track here, Have a look at Using Web Components in WP
By @BenPleysier
Same link as Birnou posted although l think that is creating some kind of UI editable component block in the WP admin panel, if you want go through that process to allow a non coder to manipulate the web component without knowing any coding.
I haven't used WP in years so don't know what it allows you to do in the way of introducing bespoke code directly via the html view by someone who is a coder or has some coding knowledge.
I would imagine it can be done and if so would circum-navigate the need to create a block in the administration UI which appears to me at least to be a lot more work than just adding a link to a script and a custom tag directly into the code itself.
Thank you but we don't want a gallery. I could easily do that myself with simple coding. We want a modal type that opens and there's the video and needs to be responsive too. I do as always appreciate your help on here though.
By @Deaf_Guy
There is a modal type :
https://demo.plugins360.com/automatic-youtube-gallery/theme-popup/
But the underlying code makes me want to vomit.
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