Displaying a div element on home page only?

Question

Hi,

I'm looking to display html (a div element) within the home page footer only? Can anyone help with how to add this to a template?

Many thanks.

Answer 1

This heavily depends on the theme you're using. Edit file qa-theme/<your-theme>/qa-theme.php

If you aren't already overriding the footer function in your theme then adding this to the file will do:

        

function footer() {

    $this->output('<div class="qa-footer">');

    if (qa_request() === '') {

        $this->output(

            '<div>',

            'A div with content',

            '</div>'

        );

    }

    $this->nav('footer');

    $this->attribution();

    $this->footer_clear();

 

    $this->output('</div> <!-- END qa-footer -->', '');

}

 

If you are using the Snow theme released with Q2A 1.6.3 you should make your already existing body_suffix function look like this, as it is already being overriden by the theme:

 

function body_suffix() {

    $this->output('<div class="qa-footer-bottom-group">');

    if (qa_request() === '') {

        $this->output(

            '<div>',

            'A div with content',

            '</div>'

        );

    }

    qa_html_theme_base::footer();

    $this->output('</div> <!-- END footer-bottom-group -->', '');

}

 

Other themes might/will require a different solution.

Comments

Thanks. That works fine for text output (thank you).

What about if I wanted a styled <div> and hyperlinked text? e.g. to output:

<style type="text/css">
#wrap {
   width:708px;
   margin:20px auto;
}
#left_col {
   float:left;
   width:354px;
}
#right_col {
   float:right;
   width:354px;
}
p.padding {
    padding: 3px 5px;
}
</style>
<div align="left" id="wrap">
    <div id="left_col">
<p class="padding"><a href="http://something.com">something</a></p>
</div>

etc...

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Exactly the same as the answer but with the custom HTML you want. I would add the style to the CSS style sheet of the theme, though.

As I always say: No need to say thanks, that's what accepting answers and upvoting is there for :)