I've encounter this issue during the develop of my plugin.
I've to loop through all the pages of the website and print the titles and the IDs of them.
When I do the simply loop it just don't print anything.
Is there a way for do a loop inside options of my plugin?
Found the solution.
I don't know if there's some kind of block inside the plugin options page but we can loop through every custom post type with a little portion of code:
<?php
//Search only for custom post type which is public.
$args = array('public'=>true);
//Get all custom post type name
$allMyCustomPostTypes = get_post_types($args);
foreach ($allMyCustomPostTypes as $myCustomPostType) {
//Create a filter for get_posts with every custom post type
$filter = array('numberposts' => 5, 'post_type' => $myCustomPostType);
//Pass the value to *get_posts*
$theposts = get_posts($filter);
foreach ($theposts as $thepost) {
//Easy print the name of the current post of the current custom post type
echo $thepost->post_title;
};
};
?>
Here we are, hope this helps somebody.
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I'm using wordpress and my page has the URL http://proservicescontractors.com/services/
But when I go to the page in my dashboard with the above URL, any change I make does not show on the front end. I tried simply duplicating my content and that change did not show on the front end.
Not sure what to do, this has me completely baffled.
Any ideas?
Since they're custom post types, by default, they're not actually loaded into a page per se. You should read up on WordPress's template hierarchy. To give you a rough idea of what's happening:
WP looks at your URL, and since it recognises it as a custom post type archive, it will look for a template to use...
It will first look for archive-$post_type.php, or in your case, archive-services.php
If it can't find that, it will look for archive.php
If it can't find that, it will use index.php
The important thing to note is that archive pages don't actually show up in the admin area, since they simply gather up and display custom posts, so there's nothing for you to edit.
Now, if you really want to edit some content on the Services archive, you have two options:
Edit archive-services.php in a text editor.
This is the quick and dirty option; the downside is that it defies the point of a CMS.
Create a page template with it's own loop
Create a new page template called page-services.php and insert a loop in there to display your custom posts. To get you started:
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php // The main loop
if (have_posts()) {
while (have_posts()) {
the_post();
}
} else {
echo 'No posts';
}
?>
<?php // Now for the services loop
// WP_Query arguments
// For additional options, see: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Parameters
$args = array (
'post_type' => array( 'services' ),
);
// The Query itself
$query = new WP_Query( $args );
// The Loop
if ( $query->have_posts() ) {
while ( $query->have_posts() ) {
$query->the_post();
// Do something with the post
// In your case look at archive-services.php and see what
// that template does inside the loop
}
} else {
// no posts found
}
// Restore original Post Data
// Don't forget this, it's important
wp_reset_postdata();
?>
<?php get_footer();?>
You should then be able to apply that page template to your Services page; it should then display your posts below the page content. One thing to look out for is that WordPress will continue to load archive-services.php whenever you go to http://proservicescontractors.com/services/. While there are ways around this, the easiest fix would be to simply give your new page a different url, such as http://proservicescontractors.com/all-services/
Thanks for your help. I'm using yoast and I wanted to change the title and description. When you pointed out that it was a custom post type archive and not a page, I went back through yoast and found where I could change them under "Titles and Metas" > "Custom Post Type Archives" > "Services"
I'm trying to run a do_shortcode in functions.php with no luck
I'm using Types plugin http://wp-types.com/ for creating custom post types and custom fields.
What I'm trying do is adding a custom column in admin for view all custom posts that displays a thumbnail from a custom field.
This is what I got so far, but it seems that the shortcode doesn't work inside functions.php
// add a column for custom post type (products)
add_filter('manage_product_posts_columns', 'add_thumbnail_column');
add_action('manage_product_posts_custom_column', 'add_thumbnail_content', 10, 2);
function add_thumbnail_column($defaults)
{
$newSlice = array('thumbnail' => 'Image preview');
$counter = 2;
$array_head = array_slice($defaults,0,$counter);
$array_tail = array_slice($defaults,$counter);
$defaults = array_merge($array_head, $newSlice);
$defaults = array_merge($defaults, $array_tail);
return $defaults;
}
function add_thumbnail_content($column_name, $post_ID)
{
// this one works when putting into post content
echo do_shortcode('[types field="square-picture" id="' . $post_ID . '" size="thumbnail"]' . '[/types]');
}
Can anyone help please?
In the Wordpress notes for the function it says
"If there are no shortcode tags defined, then the content will be
returned without any filtering. This might cause issues if a plugin is
disabled as its shortcode will still show up in the post or content."
Types may be conditionally declaring their short code only when you are on the frontend. What may be happening is that, in the admin, the short code is not defined and you are simply getting a false return. While on the frontend, the shortcode is defined and you get the results you intended.
I have a friend who writes to a couple of different blogs and wants to pull stories from one that isn't so popular, onto his main blog with an rss feed and display an image from it too (since rss feeds have images, sometimes).
Displaying the rss feeds shouldn't be too hard, it's making them a custom post type that seems more difficult to me.
If anyone has any ideas, shoot.
EDIT:-
Does anyone know how to get an external rss feed to appear as a custom post type in wordpress?
A simple way may be to use Wordpress' own fetch_feed function:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/fetch_feed
A quick example (assuming you've already set up your custom post type):
function import_feed_items()
{
$feed = fetch_feed('http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/uk/rss.xml');
if( !is_wp_error($feed) )
{
if( $last_import = get_option('last_import') )
{
$last_import_time = $last_import;
} else {
$last_import_time = false;
}
$items = $feed->get_items();
$latest_item_time = false;
foreach ( $items as $item )
{
$item_date = $item->get_date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
if( $last_import_time && ($last_import_time >= strtotime($item_date)) )
{
continue;
}
$post = array(
'post_content' => $item->get_content(),
'post_date' => $item_date,
'post_title' => $item->get_title(),
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post_type' => 'custom_post_type'
);
wp_insert_post($post);
if( strtotime($item_date) > $latest_item_time )
{
$latest_item_time = strtotime($item_date);
}
}
if( false !== $latest_item_time )
{
update_option('last_import', $latest_item_time);
}
}
else
{
echo $feed->get_error_message();
}
}
add_action('wp', 'import_feed_items');
If there is an image tag in the content you could use php's DomDocument class to grab the url and upload it to your server so you can set it as the featured image.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_attachment
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/set_post_thumbnail
Edit
corrected the timestamp check. This updated example uses the 'wp' hook to run so you can see the results quicker. It would be preferable to set this as a cron task. See http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_schedule_event
The Feed to Post plugin is the perfect solution for importing multiple RSS items into your WordPress blog, you can even store them as posts or custom post types.
http://www.wprssaggregator.com/extension/feed-to-post/
Unfortunately I don't know a way off hand, but have you looked at modifying a plugin? There are tons of content curation plugins around (feedwordpress, autoblog, etc.). You could probably find the wp_insert_post() line somewhere and modify it to include your custom post type/taxonomies.
EDIT
Jumped into the plugin (feedwordpress) myself, and all the insert_post stuff is in syndicatedpost.class.php - the main wp_insert_post() on line 1538
EDIT if you fancy a giggle while reading throught that plugin code, you'll find many an instance of the f word... haha
Hey why dont you try this http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-latest-rss-feeds/
It would pull rss feeds from any account and display it to your blog. Unfortunately it wont display images just the rss feeds title and its permalink to the original blog but you can easily modify the source code if you want.
I have the NextGEN Gallery plugin on my wordpress site. Normally I would add this short code in my page content to display gallery items:
[ nggallery id=5 template=custom ]
Now I'd like to replace this by adding custom fields in the Page Attributes setting when you are adding/editing a page. The custom fields would be "Gallery ID" and "Template name".
I'm of course using a custom page template. How can I retrieve the page attributes into this page template?
Thanks in advance!
Yes, what Stratboy said. Documentation here. This is the setup that should work for you:
<?php
$gallery_ID = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Gallery ID', true);
$template_name = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Template Name', true);
if ($gallery_ID && $template_name){
//echo '$gallery_ID: '.$gallery_ID.'; $template_name: '.$template_name.';';
echo do_shortcode('[nggallery id="'.$gallery_ID.'" template="'.$template_name.'"]');
}
?>
So, first:
have you already implemented the custom page template?
have you already implemented the custom fields?
Anyway, generally, in a template you get your custom fields values using the get_post_meta function in the Loop, like this:
//the last param tell if you want the value returned as a string (true) or an array (false)
get_post_meta($post->ID,'field name',true);
You can echo the returned value or use it for other tasks.
Let me know.
I have a friend who has asked me to build a site for him and two friends to write movie reviews. I'm pretty good with Wordpress, so it was the obvious choice for the site. The only difficulty I have is that they each plan to write a review on the same movie, and I can't think of how to achieve multiple authors in one post.
I've checked out a few plugins such as Co-Author Plus which allows multiple authors credited to the same post, but it doesn't provide the functionality for keeping each author's content separate.
The only solution I can think of is to use custom fields, but I would prefer if the authors can use the main content editor for their reviews. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Like I said, it should be better to have 1 review = 1 post.
So, I think the best way to achieve this should be to create post types :
movie
review, with a movie reference field
And modify post template to display movie and associated reviews on the same page.
An alternate solution should be to use taxonomy to handle movies and attach post to them.
I ran into the same problem with trying to figure out how to do this as well and I followed soju's advice and came up with a solution. There might be a better solution to this, but this is how I went about it. Me and my friend are doing an anime review blog and both me and him will be writing a review on the same anime.
I first created two post types:
anime: main page on the specific anime, like the description, pictures, etc.
reviews: the author's review on the anime. the options i have enabled on here are the editor, the title, and the author. Along with the associated anime taxonomy. That's all that's needed here
Then I created a taxonomy for anime titles so when a user needs to write a review on an anime that hasn't been added as a review yet they can add the title into the taxonomy.
I associated the taxonomy to both post_types and wala! That's pretty much all you need.
So now when you want to write a new review for a new anime you add a anime post type first and write down what the anime is about and include pictures etc. Add the title to the taxonomy and check it. After that you then create a new post of the post type reviews and write your review, remember to check the correct title in your taxonomy for what anime this is going to, then you are ready to go!
Problem 1: How do I include this into my loop?
Well you don't want to include both post types in your loop you just want to include posts and the other post type anime in your loop so you do the following in your functions.php file:
function include_custom_post_types( $query ) {
global $wp_query;
// Get all custom post types
$custom_post_type = get_query_var( 'post_type' );
// Get all post types
$post_types = get_post_types();
// If what you are getting is a category or a tag or that there are no custom
// post types you just want to set the post types to be the current post types
if ( (is_category() || is_tag()) && empty( $custom_post_type ))
$query->set( 'post_type' , $post_types );
// Set the custom post types you want to ignore
$ignore_types = array('reviews');
//Unset the post types that are gonna be ignored
foreach($post_types as $key=>$type)
{
if(in_array($type,$ignore_types))
{
unset($post_types[$key]);
}
}
// Set the post types for the query
if ( (is_home() && false == $query->query_vars['suppress_filters']) || is_feed())
$query->set( 'post_type', $post_types);
return $query;
}
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts' , 'include_custom_post_types' );
Problem 2: How do I display the reviews?
I solved this by creating another single.php file and renamed it to single-post_type_name.php. So in this case i created a single-anime.php file for my post type anime. Then in place of the contents i want to get all the reviews for this specific anime so I added the following within the file in the main content area:
<?php
//You grab the taxonomy that you have selected for this post
$terms = wp_get_post_terms(get_the_ID(), 'animes_reviewed');
// This is the args array for the criteria that the posts need to be in
$args = array(
// This is the post type of where your reviews are at
post_type' => 'reviews',
// this is for searching the taxonomy usually it's
// taxonomy_name => checked_taxonomy
'anime' => $terms[0]->name,
'post_status' => 'publish'
);
// Grab the posts
$posts = get_posts($args);
//Here I echo out the information for debugging purpose, but
//Here is where you can do HTML to display your reviews
foreach($posts as $post)
{
echo($post->post_content);
the_author_meta( 'nickname', $post->post_author);
}
?>
You can do a lot more with this adding more taxonomies etc. I have actually implemented an episode review by just adding a taxonomy and adding a criteria to look for in the post section. Hopefully this will help you out, might be a bit late though :( Thanks soju for recommending the custom post types!