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i am modifying a P2 theme for a specific purpose, and it uses the get_template_part( 'entry' ) function to get the the whole entry html.

What i then get is the who <li> element, but i want to be able to move things around [putting meta at the end of the post, for example]. but codex has no documentation for it [that i could find]. does this mean i have to use my own entry-getting method, or making a new loop? i hope not because P2 is so well sorted.

thanks a bunch for any tip!

adir

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Just looked in the P2 theme files. The theme loads the entry.php with the function p2_load_entry() located in inc/template-tags.php.

If you want to edit the entry.php file and want to be on the safe side if P2 releases an update, you should create a Child Theme.

  1. Create a new sub-folder inside wp-content/themes/ e.g. p2-child
  2. Inside the new folder, create a style.css with the content described in the above linked article. Be sure that you have added Template: p2 to the comment block.
  3. Copy entry.php to the new folder and edit it.
  4. Go to WordPress Admin Appearance > Themes and activate your newly created P2 Child Theme.
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  • thanks Roman! i had actually already been to that file; dont know why i didnt remember that.. are there any objections to making a totally new theme from this one, and just renaming it and documenting that its derived from it? i dont actually want the P2 updates..
    – Adeerlike
    Commented Sep 23, 2011 at 14:21
  • No, you don't have to create a child theme. But the benefits are worth the 5minutes of work here ;). Btw. get_template_part() is just a better include(). If you want to create a modified entry.php just copy the file, rename it (e.g. entry-myedits.php) and set the include to get_template_part('entry', 'myedits'); in p2_load_entry().
    – Roman
    Commented Sep 23, 2011 at 14:44
  • what kind of benefits would you mention? just future development compatibility and such? [not that im saying its not worth it, but im just wondering if there's more to it] THANKS!
    – Adeerlike
    Commented Sep 29, 2011 at 23:06
  • Yes, just for the future. For example: I had a customer last month whose site was hacked (timthumb bug). Because the files where edited by a script, I had to re-download and re-install everything from scratch. The customer had made some changes to the theme before and I had to figure out which file was different from the original theme, checked the file for some nasty evil scriptcode and moved the diff to the new file. If I had a child-theme to work with, the required time would be halved.
    – Roman
    Commented Sep 29, 2011 at 23:21
  • mm i wanted to PM you but i guess i cant. well sorry you had to go through that, i hope ill learn from that and not wait for it to happen to me as well.... =] cheers
    – Adeerlike
    Commented Oct 9, 2011 at 19:47

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