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Adding Custom Section to Articles using Hooks
In addition to adding content with KB Articles, you can customize sections of every article:
- Article header
- Article left and right sidebar
- Article footer
Then add any of the following sections to your articles:
- Common links to your support form
- Sign up form for email subscriptions
- Bookmarks
- Article status, such as “new” or “beta”
- Share buttons
- Content version numbers
- Common footer
- And much more
You have two ways to accomplish custom sections:
- Use hooks (see below)
- Use custom templates (see Creating Templates using Child Theme )
PHP Hooks and CSS ID diagram
Hooks in the image below are grouped by color:
Red Text – CSS ID’s to target with your Custom CSS.
Blue Text – Hook names to add custom Code.
Custom Code example
Here is an example of code to add to your Child theme’s function.php file. This code will output text and a list item. From here you can create any kind of section, including contact forms, subscription form, links and layouts. You can also specify an optional $args argument in the function header to receive current KB ID, configuration values and the current post.
function custom_header_html() { ?>
<h2>Hello World</h2>
<p>This is some test text for demonstration purposes</p>
<ul>
<li>List Item 1</li>
<li>List Item 2</li>
</ul> <?php
}
add_action('eckb-article-header', 'custom_header_html', 10, 4);
