Thesis OpenHook

Wow this is sweet Rick. Great idea! I wish I would have seen this before I spent all that time learning hooks last week…
Seriously, this will save a lot of people a lot of time.
-Don

I downloaded, then followed the directions, but it’s still not showing up in my plugin panel – what am I doing wrong? I’m sure I put it in the right spot, because it’s in the same folder as the other things I DO see in the plugin panel.

Thanks,
Kelly (blog under construction: http://www.kellythekitchencop.org)

Rick,
This is a great plugin and while I kind of enjoy creating custom hooks this will also save me a ton of time. Thanks for creating it.

It’s looking very good Rick. Thank you very much.

Rick,
I’ll probably link to this from my site, even though I will likely just stick with custom_functions.php myself. One question: does it support php coding, like conditionals, or is it strictly for text?

Really, really good idea and good work. You are a fantastic help to the Thesis community (and the WordPress community in general).

Ak! Thanks Rick. Obviously, I skimmed too quickly. Victim of the attention deficit culture.

Great job.

Thank you! I was thinking of using Thesis on one of my sites but I really don’t have time to learn hooks right now.

What a wonderful gift for the community!

Rick, Great plugin for us novices. My question: If I use this, will it overwrite any hooks already inserted in the custom functions file? Thanks!

Rick, it doesnt look like the inserted text using the hooks “obeys” the style built into Thesis… correct? For instance I tried to move my byline from the sidebar to area before context and used HTML to style it, ie, H3 tags, but it didn’t comply. How do we do simple stuff like adjust color, size of font, etc, within the hooks?

Rick, that worked perfectly; now I just have to tweak it.
I should have known I needed more code than that, because I had to use the div ‘s etc, in my sidebar section when I altered it with hooks!! I guess I was just too excited to be able to tweak my blog right in the admin panel that I got ahead of myself!

Hey Rick,
Thanks for this useful plugin :) But now comes the dilemma that started with using Thesis – to plugin or not to plugin, that is the question …

Great stuff anyways :)

Hey Rick,
No matter what I plug in I get the following warning:
Warning: fopen [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in wp-content/plugins/options.php on line 32 Error editing.

How do I fix that?

DOOOOD!!
RAAAAAWWWKZ!

Rick
Impressive, excellent work! I’m looking forward to testing it out! Thanks!

-Miguel

Santa came early this year. Thanks so much, Rick!

I mean like this ..sorry

/* YOAST BreadCrumb */

function yoast_breadcrumb () {

}

add_action(’thesis_hook_before_title, ‘yoast_breadcrumb’);

This is most helpful – thank you!

This looks really excellent, Rick, thanks for creating it. Anything that makes Thesis easier to use! I’ve installed it on my WP 2.6.5 blog, now just reading up on hooks to understand better what I’d like to do ;)

Thanks again.

That’s awesome Rick, thanks for devising this! Having all the hooks at the same place, and being able to edit them so simply will make the customizing job that much easier.
You even added many useful and cool comments when appropriate !

Rick:

Can you tell me how to add an iFrame to my blog. Can I use hooks?

Actually I need about 5 pages with 5 different iFrames. I would appreciate the help.

Hey Rick,

This is a fabulous idea! I didn’t discover it until today. Sadly though, the download link doesn’t seem to be working. :(

Yeah I know buddy. I went over to the WordPress directory, and clicked on the big ‘Download’ button and it’s coming up as a dead link for me.

@Tom K.: installed perfectly on my copy of WP 2.7 RC2 -

@Rick – in RC2 – plugin option shows up as its own tab under appearance as Thesis Openhook – so even easier to find than advertised.

Installed perfectly. Now I have to learn what to do with it.

Jon

Edit by Rick Beckman: Fixed a bit of markup.

Thanks Jon. I re-tried the install and it worked.

So I’m curious how this plays with Thesis in a WPMU setting. Does it involve any file alterations, outside of custom.css?

Just wondering how it would work. One of the things that drew me to Thesis in the first place was how well it played with WPMU. Being able to tweak layout elements trivially across a series of blogs without hacking at the theme files themselves.

Hi Rick,

I LOVE this- it is wonderful and made using Thesis so much easier. I’m wondering how to put my Feedburner stats into the nav bar, where the subscribe button was… is it possible to do it using openhook?

With regards to WMPU compatibility, I tested it and it works just fine. Settings are isolated to the individual blog those changes were done on. I haven’t checked the custom.css stuff, but if you simply don’t allow it, it’s not a problem. Were it allowed, I’m sure it would propagate across all blogs sharing the same theme directory.

I wanted to add the Add to Any javascript “After Content” so I got the code and pasted it – but it doesn’t appear after the post content.

I’ve changed permissions on the custom/custom.css to 777 -

Did I miss something?

Thanks Rick for a killer tool – and I LOVE the “little ass save button”

Rick Butts

Edit by Rick Beckman: Fixed link markup.

I’m trying to use this plugin for the first time – I can add the following code to custom_functions and it works fine, but when I add the exact same thing inside the plugin, it doesn’t work. What am I missing to use the plugin?

function add_social_profiles () {
global $comment;
?>
user_id); ?>
<?php
}
add_action('thesis_hook_after_comment_meta', 'add_social_profiles');


Rick,

I use the All-in-One SEO plugin and when modifying the header, it seems I get a conflict with that plugin.

Here’s my error message -

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/rob888/public_html/shop/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/all_in_one_seo_pack.php:632) in /home/rob888/public_html/shop/wp-content/plugins/thesis-openhook/thesis-openhook.php(191) : eval()’d code on line 1

What do I do?

Thanks!

Amazing. Thanks Rick!

-Dave

I have added the code below (via http://www.sugarrae.com) in the header box to change to test adding an image in the header area, but it didn’t work, but when I added directly through custom_functions.php file it worked. Anybody know what the problem is… I’m using version 2.7 of wordpress. Thanks!

/* Custom Header Image */
function add_header_image () {
echo “<a>

</a>”;
}
add_action(‘thesis_hook_after_title’, ‘add_header_image’);

Getting the following error above the header on home page, and at the top and bottom of the wordpress dashboard?????

Warning: include_once(/home/admin/public_html/wp-content/plugins/__MACOSX/) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: Success in /home/admin/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 465

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/home/admin/public_html/wp-content/plugins/__MACOSX/’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/admin/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 465

Now, I can’t login to admin…This is the new error:

Warning: include_once(/home/admin/public_html/wp-content/plugins/__MACOSX/) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: Success in /home/admin/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 465

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/home/admin/public_html/wp-content/plugins/__MACOSX/’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/admin/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 465

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/admin/public_html/wp-settings.php:465) in /home/admin/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 850

Rick,

I am using a single column design and I want the multimedia box to be in the content area. I can’t figure out how to do this?

Is it possible to run text in a column alongside it?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks Rick,

I would like to second Dave’s comment above re: your “Super charge your blog” box that appears at the end of every post promoting the thesis theme. Providing a custom_functions code for something like this would be super cool.

Hello Rick, thanks for a wonderful plugin.

I am trying to use Openhook in order to insert a slideshow-application before my sidebars. Eventhough I have added the following piece of code in the correct field of Openhook, with ‘Execute PHP’ enabled,

” ”

I get the following error message where my slideshow otherwise would be:

” Warning: include(/public_html/wp-content/themes/thesis/gallery.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/polysj4/public_html/wp-content/plugins/thesis-openhook/thesis-openhook.php(367) : eval()’d code on line 1 ”

Is there a problem with the include-command, or have I missed something very obvious? Any help would be most appreciated, and thanks again for a truly helpful tool.

?php include(‘/public_html/wp-content/themes/thesis/gallery.php’); ?

though wrapped within the appropriate – signs.

I apologise for all the extra clutter

I think there’s a small bug with your plugin. When I use the custom functions.php file and add something before the header, it appears between the nav bar and the top of the header. When I use your plugin and add it in the “before header” box it appears above the nav bar. Any suggestions?

THANK YOU very much for OpenHook. It’s so handy just to pop in and change bits.

I’ve uploaded thesis openhook to my plugins, but when I go to activate it, the plugin doesn’t show up at all. I’ve tried installing and uninstalling twice.. Please advise as how to get it to work. Thannks,

Mark

Hey gang,
I would like to add a bit of text with a link to another site as follows:

Read Kelley Bell’s Columns on The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelley-bellwenzlaff/#blogger_bio

How do I format this so that the link is hot, and you just see “The Huffington Post” instead of the whole web address?

Also, when using openhook to place this, I am open to suggestions regarding the best placement on the site.

I tried it under the header, but the text was so small and off to the left, it looked kind of bad. Any ideas?

I am a real novice here. But I have installed thesis in WP because I like the idea of having drop down combo boxes for Categories. I cant seem to make this happen. For example:
Software (category)
Adobe Plugins (sub category)
NIK Vivesa (sub category)
Hardware (Category)
Printers (sub)
Scanners (sub)

and so on. Then when choosing the Software category, the drop down would list Adobe and NIK. Using the Hardware drop down, choose Printers or Scanners. etc.

Can this be done? and how?
Gary

Hey Rick,

Is there a difference in how open hook acts when WP is installed in the main folder or a sub folder?

In a site with WP installed in a sub folder, the boxes for open hook are all different and don’t have the stretch function. Also the custom.css box at the top is missing from the site where WP is installed in a sub folder.

Is there some sort of path issue when the plug in is used on sites where WP is installed in a sub folder?

This is a great plug in. Having the ability to alter a site with these admin files is a huge time saver.

Thanks,
John

Well hello there. What is this fine post doing at the top of the page? Do I smell 1.4 featured posts in action!?

Hi Rick -

Do you plan on adding the new “thesis_hook_feature_box” option to your Open-Hooks plugin?

Thanks!

Hello,
The styling that I added to .custom #container on the custom css file no longer renders after I installed this plug-in. The body.custom is fine though. Do you know why the custom class would stop working??

Hello,
I like this stuff, it would be nice if there are different coulours on particular parts of code (something like in code editors)-or do you have some tips on good plugin for that? Other thing, are you going to implement “Featrured box” ? Thank you anyway ;)

Is this compatible with Wordpress 2.7? Notes say Compatible up to: 2.6.3. I am excited to use this as it sounds like it will help me tremendously in my new work with Thesis.

when you are talking about the new version and things to do :) , I will really appreciate if the “SAVE” button has the fixed position so I dont have to sroll to the bottom of the page everytime I change something…

I’m creating my own affiliate ad in HTML and using OpenHook to insert it on my blog via the “After Comments” box. My ad includes a gif image and no matter what I do, I can’t get it to show up. Are images inserted through OpenHook supposed to be in a particular location on my host server? What is the correct pathname to use?

Thanks.

Er, that’s not the code. It’s running PHP too.

Just upgraded and problem solved. Thanks again for a great plugin!

Rick,

I put the image in that directory and tried using full and partial path names and it still would not show up.

I also was trying to make the image clickable with an affiliate link.

The image showed up and was clickable when I made the ad in Dreamweaver, but when I copied and pasted the text into OpenHook, I had to change the path names (from the one on my hard drive to the path to the file on the server) and just couldn’t come up with the right sequence of HTML to get the image to show in my table. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Cynthia

Hi rick,
I’m using thesis 1.4.2 and I having problems with the custom.css, just cant see the text box.
Are you havng this problem to?
Thanks.

Oh! I guess this is the problem I have the theme on thesis142/.
Thanks!

Help!

Using OpenHook to put logo into header: I uploaded the image, and I see the line in the ‘view source’ option, but the logo doesn’t show up. When I type the URL of the image in the address bar, I get a 404 page.

Here’s the site: http://twilightearth.com

Hi Rick, thanks for the quick answer.

My atyle.css is located in wp-content/themes/thesis

What should the file permission be for openhook to see it?

Thanks, Doc

LOVE this plugin! Thanks for your time and effort in creating it. Saves a great deal of time for us newbies in customizing the Thesis them.

Just passing by to say thank you for the good plugin! I can do with it almost everything needed. And, very important – to edit the custom.css without even starting an FTP program and all that downloading, editing, uploading etc. :)

Please, continue supporting it, this obviously becomes my main tool :)

Thanks again!

2.0 rocks!

Sorry, the code is:

Rick,

I nosed around in options.php and found . . .

”
<input value=”1″ id=”openhook_after_header_php” name=”openhook_after_html_php” type=”checkbox” />”

and changed “openhook_after_html_php” to “openhook_after_header_php.” That seemed to do the trick.

My first php coding experience!

Rick,

Absolutely! It gave me an opportunity to learn a little php. And thanks so much for the plugin. It allows hacks like me to look like real experts.

Blessings,

Alec

ack! I tried this and used openhook instead of Notepad++ and ftp to change custom css and now my logo is gone. I’m not sure what I could have done. I added to #tweet lines of code to the custom css and have removed both of them but my logo is still gone.

What seems even more strange is I remembered the last custom.css I uploaded was probably still in my recycle bin. I brought it out and my logo is still gone. Almost like something is stuck and clearing out properly.

OK, so something very strange happened. When I typed in the direct URL to my logo the url showed up in the browser as text. I uploaded my logo again and things seem to be working normally.

Not quite sure if it was an OpenHook issue or not, but this is the first time I’ve used OpenHook for custom.css.

May be a bug?

Thanks, Rick.
That code works for my blog.

Rick,

Well you are the man. Thanks again for all of your hard work and being active on the comments here. Style & Grace.

Best, Brad

Ah, I just realized what the problem is. I have been using version 1.1. WP 2.7.1 is offering an automatic upgrade to version 2.0, not 2.0.1. That’s why I got the error which I not see you wrote about above.

My bad. I should not be doing this at midnight, obviously.

Thanks, Rick.

Rick:

I find OpenHook to be invaluable to me when I’m designing for clients. For one thing, it speeds the development process, because I can try things and replace things more rapidly than if I was constantly modding the css and php files. For another, it makes the changes more transparent to the client once the files are turned over to them. They still might not have the skills to implement new changes themselves, but it’s less intimidating for them if I send instructions to add something to OpenHook than if I’d said add something to the custom.php file. So, thanks!!

Is it possible to rename the little ass save button?

Thanks for a this great work rick! Two questions though:

1. Is there any easy way to be notified when you’re updating OpenHook (i guess the auto-alert system built in wordpress doesn’t work when you don’t host the plugin in the wordpress.org repository)?

2. Do you have any nice resources where I can find inspiration for all the possibilities this plugin gives us? Like the example for customizing the footer.

Thank you!

Rick, hi. I think I’m a little confused as to what to put in some spot. for example, say I want to do the nav menu switch from top to bottom of header. What exactly do I enter into the textbox?

Thanks!

Hi Rick,

I’ve been trying to unzip this file and cannot. I’ve deleted it twice and reloaded but to no avail. Any suggestions?

I tried putting the code in the other, but it had php in it. basically it calls…

adsense_singlepost_top_square.php

and uses the style you mention. hold on a sec… here’s how it’s resolving

and the CSS I’m using is:

#adsense_singlepost_top_square {
float: left;
margin-right: 10px;
}


This NextGen Gallery short code [singlepic=1,188,141,,right] doesn’t get processed but shows up where the image is supposed to be. Is there a way to use short codes with OpenHook?

Doesn’t seem to be working. I get [SinglePic not found] but the short code works fine when used on a Wordpress page. I just retested it to make sure.

just to clarify, the conflict is when K2 is activated. everything is fine with Thesis activated.

thanks , got it. I have never installed a plug-in that way. I like to have them on my system so I can slide them all over in one move on new sites but that works. thanks for the quick response.

Rick,
Not sure what I did, but I had the open hook rocking and rolling at http://www.michiganfireservice.com. Then I upgraded the openhook to 2.0, and was running a 1.3 something on thesis. I got error up the wazoo, so I unplugged the open hook and upgraded thesis to 1.4.2 and to 2.7.1 on wp
I plugged in open hook and get
Warning: main(TEMPLATEPATH/lib/classes/options.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/m/o/b/mobrian/html/mifireservice/functions.php on line 22

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘TEMPLATEPATH/lib/classes/options.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/content/m/o/b/mobrian/html/mifireservice/functions.php on line 22
Any ideas?

Rick, that worked great, now I just have to fix some hooks that were lost. Not sure if I coded something wired, but I will get it up and running, thanks for your help!

Hi Rick – I just wanted to let you know about a little glitch I encountered with 404 Title – if I enter this:

and save, the 404 page looks fine, but the next time I see this in the 404 Title (one backslash per quote):

and after the next save I see this (two backslashes per quote):

and then after the next save I see this (three backslashes per quote)

at this point I start getting the expected PHP error:
Warning: Unexpected character in input: ‘\’ (ASCII=92)

Hi Rick,

Thank you for the plugin, I should have started using it months ago. I am currently re-doing my site at blog.chrisstroud.net and have a quick question. I am putting a footer after each of posts and do not wan it to show up on the home page. I know I should be using if(is_single()) { some how but do not know how to apply. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Worked perfectly. Thank you.

I have tried to insert the following google code into the “before comment meta” hook to no avail. I have enabled php, but nothing ever shows up.

10-4

How’s this:
<?php
if (is_page() )
{ ?>
<script type="text/javascript"><!–
google_ad_client = "pub-22222222222222";
/* 468×60, created 2/17/09 */
google_ad_slot = "1694247595";
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 60;
//–>
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
<?php }
?>

Hi. I went to implement openhook and found this error on the page that loaded.

Unfortunately, your custom.css file does not appear to be editable by the server, so you will not be able to edit it via the OpenHook interface. Sorry for the inconvenience.

How do I fix this? Blog is hosted on my server…

Thank you
Rick

Thanks this is going to save me a TON of work and time!

solved my problem – thanks

Okay WAAY down at the bottom of OpenHook – I see you’ve included a checkbox to remove the footer attribution – whew.

Thanks – are there any other kinds of sitewide hooks that don’t go into a preset box on OpenHook?

Where would they need to go?

thanks – rick

Rick,
I’m using

if (is_page(array('232','234','236','303','383'))) remove_action('thesis_hook_header', 'thesis_default_header');

in the Before Header box, and similar remove_actions() in other OpenHook boxes, and they work perfectly. A quick test showed that remove_action('thesis_hook_footer', 'thesis_attribution') in the Before Footer box worked to remove the attribution. Useful if you want the attribution removed only on certain pages.

Hi Rick,
Firstly, thank you for OpenHook for Thesis! A great tool!

I have a small problem just surfaced after making an entry in Openhook.
The entry was placed in ‘Archive Info Box’
The ‘code’ ……

Execute PHP on this block = Is ticked
Remove Thesis default archive info = Is ticked

I get the results that I want when I use the Category & Archive Pages but the error message occurs when I use the standard Thesis Search Box. After typing in a key word, the search results page is displayed with the following error message…

Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /nfs/c03/h01/mnt/47704/domains/blog.youcanmakeitifyoutry.com/html/wp-content/plugins/thesis-openhook/functions.php(627) : eval()’d code on line 3

I am not an experienced PHP user and would appreciate it if you could help me on this one.

Regards,

Ray

I am using…
Thesis 1.4.2
Openhook 2.01
PHP 5

Hi Rick,

My apologies I missed the bit about ‘escaped code’.

Here is the code!

<div id="archive_info">
<h1><?php single_cat_title(); ?></h1>
<div id="category_description"><?php echo category_description(); ?></div></div>

Regards,

Ray

Hi Rick,

I have just used the htmlescape tool and here the ‘escaped’ code…

<div id="archive_info">
<h1><?php single_cat_title(); ?></h1>
<div id="category_description"><?php echo category_description(); ?></div></div>

Regards,

Ray

Hi Rick,

Thank you for your response and assistance.

I have tried for a couple of hours with no success to follow your advice (which makes sense to me logically) and wrap my code in the conditional as you quoted, using Openhook as before.

I looked up the WP Codex, W3Schools site etc for examples but unfortunately my lack of PHP knowledge has defeated me.

If you can would you please give me an exact example.

Regards,

Ray

KingdomGeek, I have to tell you that I’m really liking OpenHook. My husband found and installed it after we got started with Thesis, and it really is quite easy to use.

I think I’ve tripped over something, though. I want to move the navigation so that it falls after the feature box and before the content_box div. But whether I place it before content_box or after header, it actually shows up before feature_box.(I would expect it to show up before feature_box if I specify after header…it’s the before content_box that I think is confused.)

I can modify custom_functions.php to get around this…I just wanted you to know :-)

Thanks again for an awesome plugin!

Hi Rick,

Can you tell me the code you used to get the Creative Commons icon with link back to site next to your name in the copyright? Noob here….my code so far is:

Copyright 2009–, Avinash Jude D’Souza.

Is there any way I can amend the Thesis attribution? What I want to say is “This site is powered by Thesis and Wordpress” where both Thesis and Wordpress are links.

Cheers,
Nash

Hey KingdomGeek… I’m lovin’ your OpenHook addition to Thesis! I do have one suggestion. Not sure how much of a pain it’d be to add this, but I really like how Chris P. added the + boxes that drop down more info … your OpenHook could be much easier and quicker to navigate if you would put a + after each heading, like Custom Stylesheet, Before HTML, etc. Then what would drop down would be the input box, and “Execute PHP on this hook” type processing checkboxes, and the “Little Ass Save Button.” This way I could quickly get to just what I want to edit, without too much scrolling.

Again, maybe that’s gonna be too much of a pain to implement, but it seems like a good idea, yes?

Rick – are there any incompatibility issues that you know of between Thesis 1.5 beta 3 and OpenHook? I was making changes via OpenHook to my custom.css file that weren’t reflected in the custom.css file on my server.

*I* saw the deletions/edits on my admin screen – but another admin kept insisting that I hadn’t make the changes, ’cause he couldn’t see it on his screen. (Yes, I’d hit the little-ass button multiple times!) He even logged out and then back in to triple-check. When I FTP-ed in to my server to download the file and prove him wrong – well, he was right. (I ended up making the edits offline & uploading a fresh file to my server.)

I love the plugin and would love to continue using it. Let me know if I can provide more information or help in any way.

Thanks for this plugin. Such a life-saver for me!

Hey John,

You can be rid of the WP Admin link by going to “Thesis Options” under the “Appearance” menu. On the bottom left there are checkboxes for the Admin link’s level of visibility.

The easiest way to do the logo on the left is to create a banner, 960 px wide or so, with the logo and title and tagline as part of the banner. Then you can just replace the title and tagline with your custom banner.

Not sure about putting a content box over on the right above your sidebar, but my interest is piqued . . . I’ll look into it a bit.

Cheers,

Alec

Hmmm – the php lines I entered don’t show up. Here’s another go:

I’ve added this line in the Feature Box area:

//

‘menu.html’ is sitting in the ‘custom’ folder, right next to the ‘custom_functions.php’ file and the ‘Execute php’ check box is checked.

But absolutely nothing appears in the function box.

I’ve tried different variations:

//

and..

//

When I created a new completely unrelated php page in a separate domain and call that file using everything works perfectly.

Any help much appreciated!

Cheers,

Martin.

Rick,

I was using the scrolling ball on my mouse to scroll around in OpenHook and suddenly ALL the text got much smaller. Also, when I checked my site, everything is compressed on it, too. What happened and how can I undo this? PLEASE HELP!!!

Thank you.

Cynthia

Rick,

My problem is a “feature” of Firefox 3 — I must have had the “control” key down while I was scrolling down with the scroll wheel of my mouse and the combination reduced the size of everything on the page. I have fixed it now.

Thanks.

Cynthia

<img src="http://randomspecific.com/public_html/wp-content/themes/thesis/custom/images/header.gif" alt=\"Random Specific\" height=\"859\" width=\"103\" style=\"border:0px\" />

Hi Rick
I am trying to get the text of a custom field to show up in Openhook.

This string works fine when pasted in a normal Wordpress template, but not when I put it into OpenHook. (Yes, I have selected the Execute PHP checkbox ;-) )

This is the PHP string I’m using – ‘author’ is the name of the custom field
<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘author’, true); ?>

Not sure if it matters, but I am calling the author name into an Amazon javascript widget, and the line looks like:
amzn_wdgt.defaultSearchTerm=’<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘author’, true); ?>’;

When I look at the source code of my blog page, the search term remains blank as if it is not printing. i.e like this
amzn_wdgt.defaultSearchTerm=”;

As I say, when I put this code into a normal Wordpress theme, the custom field prints fine.

Here’s an example of a page with the Amazon Widget on it so you can see the source code for yourself if you like.
http://www.spikemagazine.com/on-chesil-beach-%e2%80%93-ian-mcewan.php

What am I doing wrong?

Many thanks for all your hard work on OpenHook
best
Chris