Define Variable Values in WordPress Post

[stevendeeds]

Hey guys, this is my first post here, hopefully I can find some useful information.

Basically, I’m using wordpress as my blogging engine on a section of my site. I set up several if/else statements in the theme, that I use in the non wordpress sections of my site, and I would like to be able to define the variables depending on what the post calls for.

A simplified version of my question would be this…

 
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Possible?

[stevendeeds]

Still No responses on this post, need your help guys!

[TheDoc]

I suppose I don’t really know what you’re asking!

If you asking if you can use other PHP beside WordPress, then of course!

[stevendeeds]

Hey Doc, what im asking is, I want to be able to define my variables in a wordpress post.. i.e. Say I have an if/else statement in my footer.. if $var is set then echo $var, else don’t. And I want to be able to post a new article and in certain articles define $var as “hello world”.. is it possible?

[dhechler]

I think i know what you are saying. You should try

if (isset($var)){

echo $var;

}

you could put an else statement in there, but theres not really a point.

[dhechler]

Can you explain a bit more. Here is what I’m understanding.

1. set an if statement in your footer to check if $var is defined in the current post you are on.
2. be able to define $var in your post.

[stevendeeds]

yea, and that was just an example.
Another example would be defining custom keywords in my meta data using variables.

I know how to use an if/else statement.. that’s not what I was asking. I just want to be able to define variables in wp pages and posts in the tinymce editor

[Brightonmike]

I think what you’re looking to do needs you to use custom fields, you can’t put php of any sort in the editor.

[dhechler]

@Brightonmike is right. You should use either custom fields or just tag your post with tags and then list out your tags in your metadata.

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