I am creating a plugin in Wordpress with a custom post type and custom fields. I have enabled the default Wordpress custom fields metabox for my post type, but I would like to customize some of the output:
Limit the Custom Field Name select list to only include fields that have been added to my custom post type (Don't include custom fields added to other post types).
Exclude custom fields added to only my custom post type from all other post types (Don't include them in the Custom Field Name select box for other post types).
Change the Custom Fields metabox title ("Custom Fields"), label ("Add New Custom Field"), button ("Add Custom Field"), and description ("Custom fields can be used to add extra metadata...")
Basically, I am trying to leverage the Wordpress unlimited custom fields functionality for my custom post type, but I want to customize it to the needs of one specific custom post type.
Can this be done? (I do not want to use Advanced Custom Fields for this.)
A good alternative to Advanced Custom Fields is Simple Fields:
http://simple-fields.com/
It allows you to make field groups and then use Post Connecters to link them to certain post types. This will allow you to link only desired fields to your custom post types (point 1), and therefore not show the fields on other post types (point 2).
You can also title the field group and labels however you like (point 3).
Related
I've creating a custom post type and added some custom fields (Eg: Names (dropdown)) into it using ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) plugin,
Now I have a REST API which gives list of names,
What I want is to show the list of those names into Names Field which is a dropdown (select field).
Is it possible to do? If yes then please tell me how to do it.
I have a custom post type called STORIES.
When a user adds a new STORY, I need them to be able to assign a category (or multiple categories) to the post so I can sort them later by category.
To do this, I only want specific categories I assign to the STORY posts to show - NOT all of the wordpress categories attached to every post type.
For example the default Wordpress category is 'Uncategorized'. How do I remove this category (and any othersI don't want) to ONLY show the ones I select via the custom post type editor?
Is there any way I can make this happen?
I am using custom Post Types UI with Advanced Custom Fields.
You can do that with Post Types UI, You will need to create a new taxonomy.
Here is the screenshot explaining that
https://s.w.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/screenshot-4.png?r=1180724
Just fill the text boxes with appropriate names, and check STORY under
"Attach to Post Type" option.
After that you will have custom taxonomy like "Story Category" to use for stories only.
How can I define default custom fields list in wordpress?
I want to give users ability to choose custom fields from list when they create or edit post in admin. On that coustom fields I will base design and make different styles when users choose "youtube" or "image". It's impossible to find any solution for that simple problem in web.
WordPress takes existing custom fields and presents them in a select box. So, once you've created a custom field once on one page it will be available on all pages in the WP Admin. Just click "Enter New" about the Custom Field select box and it will allow you to enter in a new meta key.
More Technical
Custom Fields are stored in your Metadata database table, whereas the custom field name is the meta_key and the custom field value is the meta_value.
When an edit page loads it take a grouping of all custom fields (minus fields that are used for internal use) and presents them in the select drop down.
Retrieving
Retrieving a custom field would be as follows:
$custom_field = get_post_meta($post->ID,"CUSTOM FIELD NAME",true);
Predefined Custom Fields
WordPress offers a popular plugin Advanced Custom Fields that allows you to create different types of custom fields with preset values. This helps content editors to choose the appropriate value attached with the appropriate custom field.
I've created a custom post type for a client (gravesite), and it has several custom fields to fill out ('bcva_branch_text', 'bcva_rank', 'bcva_start_serve', 'bcva_end_serve', 'bcva_dob', 'bcva_dod', 'bcva_cemetary', 'bcva_latitude', 'bcva_longitude').
The client wants these fields to be searchable, but I'm having trouble finding a way to do it. The WordPress Search will search the custom post type's title and 'editor' fields, but how do I get WP to search the added custom fields as well?
Thanks!
The Custom Fields Search plugin looks like it will do what you need. It seems to let you choose which custom fields will be included in search.
I know how to create a custom template for a specific wordpress page. However, I would like to create a template for a specific custom post type. Is that possible and if it is possible, how can I do that?
To add a custom template for custom post types you can use single-{posttype}.php template. You can look at the template hierarchy diagram for more details.
For example if your post type is called books, your filename for the template should be single-books.php
If you have created a custom post type
If you have created a custom post type then you need to create a template who's name will be smiler to the custom post type for example if you have created a custom post type "product" then you will create a template with name product.php in your theme directory and to display a particulate post of your custom post type you will create another template with name single-product.phpthis template will be used to display your custom post and remember whatever custom post you create same name will be used to name your custom post type template and do not forget to add single in the beginning.
Template for a particulate post or a post of particulate category
And to display particular post in different template and to use different template to display post of particular category you can follow this link.