[wp-hackers] File inclusion in WP theme

[Jennifer Hodgdon]

dtc4ever wrote:
> The text files contain transcriptions of
> guitar tabs so basically, they are text snippets that I'd like to
> insert in the content section of my theme.

My suggestion would be to write a short plugin (or you could put this 
in the functions.php file of your theme, but a plugin is more portable 
if you want to change themes), which would insert the guitar tab into 
the post content. Something like this:

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add_filter( 'the_content', 'guitartabs_insert_tab' );

function guitartabs_insert_tab( $pcontent ) {
    global $id;

    $dir = ABSPATH . 'wp-content/yourtranscriptdir/';

    // figure out which text file you need by post ID
    // or post content, and add it to $pcontent,
    // perhaps inside a set of <pre> </pre> tag?s


    return $pcontent;
}
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     --Jennifer

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