I wonder if I could ask a Wordpress / RSS question I could't find an answer for around here,
Trying to syndicate posts via RSS in Wordpress using the FeedWordpress plugin as an RSS aggregator, each post in the original blog includes five custom fields that are important for its Theme functionality (the original and syndicating / receiving blog using the same theme).
The original RSS2 feed doesn't include these custom fields apart from one, being enclosure, that is defined in the default rss feed template (function in WP rss_enclosure).
This is written in the original feed such as:
<enclosure url="http://www.samplevideourl.flv" length="18554755" type="video/x-flv" />
Tried to add the rest of the custom fields modifying the rss2-feed.php template so they show at the end of each segment in the current RSS2 feed, now they are included as for example:
...
<ratings_average>0</ratings_average>
<views>5</views>
</item>
However, if I update the syndicated posts, or delete the posts and fetch the modified feed again with feedwordpress, none of these show in the syndicated posts.
Is there a way to include these custom fields so they are recognized by feedwordpress?
Basically need to syndicate the same format of the post as the original including all its custom fields.
Many Thanks
Carlos
There is a thread that covers this: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/3801/add-custom-fields-to-custom-post-type-rss
I've condensed the answers there to reflect the later improvements (thanks MikeSchinkel, prettyboymp and Acts7).
Add this to your theme's functions.php:
/* IN ORDER TO VALIDATE you must add namespace */
add_action('rss2_ns', 'my_rss2_ns');
function my_rss2_ns(){
echo 'xmlns:mycustomfields="'. get_bloginfo('wpurl').'"'."\n";
}
add_action('rss2_item', 'yoursite_rss2_item');
function yoursite_rss2_item() {
if (get_post_type()=='my_custom_post_type') {
$fields = array( 'field1', 'field2', 'field3' );
$post_id = get_the_ID();
foreach($fields as $field)
if ($value = get_post_meta($post_id,$field,true))
echo "<mycustomfields:{$field}>{$value}</mycustomfields:{$field}>\n";
}
}
This will add all custom field names and values to the site's main feed.
Note, for custom fields with more than one value, a modification is necessary as the above will only work for single value fields, not arrays.
So,
On your Master site (where you are syndicating FROM) you add the above function.
On the Slave site (where you are syndicating TO), assuming you have FeedWordPress installed, go to "SYNDICATION" ->
Click on the name of the RSS feed
Go to Custom Feed Settings and plug in the pieces
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I am new to wordpress and woocommerce development and I am just wondering, how to manipulate an admin-screen in a clean, updateable way.
For example, I want to add a custom field to a product edit page (see screen):
I know, that I have to write a custom extension, but is it possible, to manipulate admin-screens of other extensions? I couldn't find any suitable tutorial? Maybe someone has a hint, where to start?
The feature of creating custom fields for products is baked right into WooCommerce, whether to implement it directly in functions.php or do the same via a plugin is left to one's sole discretion.
Remi Corson has written an excellent article detailing the same.
Here's the gist :
1.Create the fields using the woocommerce_product_options_general_product_data hook
add_action( 'woocommerce_product_options_general_product_data', 'woo_add_custom_general_fields' );
function woo_add_custom_general_fields() {
// Define your fields here.
// You can create text, textarea, select, checkbox and custom fields
}
2.When product is saved save the value entered in your custom field using woocommerce_process_product_meta hook
add_action( 'woocommerce_process_product_meta', 'woo_add_custom_general_fields_save' );
function woo_add_custom_general_fields_save( $_post_id ) {
//save field values
}
WooCommerce is a WordPress plugin that will help you to turn your website into an eCommerce store.
Yes, you can write an Extension ( or ADD-On) for this plugin, in fact there are already hundreds of Extension ( free and Paid ) have been made for it.
In order to create an Extension ( or ADD-ON ) for this plugin, you need to understand 2 things:
WooCommerce API
http://docs.woothemes.com/document/create-a-plugin/
WordPress API https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin
I want to have ability to choose for each page what post should appear in a sidebar, from multiple posts type. So I understand that I need a meta box with a dropdown list of all posts, but I don't know how to build this in functions.
I only found this solution which is quite similar to what I want, but this doesn't help me to much, because I can only choose from a single post type and display only in post pages.
There is a free plugin that will solve all of your woes. It's called ACF or Advanced Custom Fields. It has the ability to add a list of posts to a field and attach that field to pages. Here's how you'd do it:
First install the plugin and navigate to the custom fields screen. Setup your field exactly like this:
Then in the options below that section you need to select these options:
That will tell ACF to put the field only on pages. After you have set that up you will get a little sidebar block like this:
You can then select each post for the page and it will return that object on the frontend. You do need to use a little code to get the frontend to spit out the posts you need. Here is the code to get a frontend option from ACF. Inside of the sidebar.php file you need to add this code:
global $post; // Get the global post object
$sidebar_posts = get_field('posts', $post->ID); // Get the field using the post ID
foreach($sidebar_posts as $sidebar_post){ // Loop through posts
echo $sidebar_post->post_title; // Echo the post title
}
This will simply loop through the posts you select and echo out the title. You can do more with this by adding some other Wordpress post functions using setup_postdata(). This will allow you to do things like the_title() and the_content().
Hope this helps!
How can I create my own custom post formats?
Or how can make my custom post type make work with a function like
get_post_format();
For example i have a custom-post type with the type of "accordion" and i like to be able to use it with as content element in the loop, but only if it exists...
get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() );
So i am looking for a function like
get_custom_post_format();
which does not exists in Wordpress.
Anybody tried something similar?
I'm not sure if you're asking how to create custom post formats or custom post types so I've provided the answer to both.
If you're asking whether you can create custom post formats...
...then the answer is no. See the quote below from Post Formats on the WordPress codex:
The Post Formats feature provides a standardized list of formats that are available to all themes that support the feature. Themes are not required to support every format on the list. New formats cannot be introduced by themes or even plugins. The standardization of this list provides both compatibility between numerous themes and an avenue for external blogging tools to access this feature in a consistent fashion.
If you're asking how to create a custom post type:
The most basic example of creating (registering) your own custom post type is to add the following code to your functions.php file inside your theme.
function register_recipes_post_type() {
$args = array( 'public' => true, 'label' => 'Recipes' );
register_post_type( 'recipe', $args );
}
add_action( 'init', 'register_recipes_post_type' );
The above code hooks our register_recipes_post_type function to be executed when the init action is triggered by WordPress core.
Once you've added this code, if you go to your wp-admin you'll see a new menu on the left called 'Recipes', that's your new custom post type. If you add a new recipe, give it a title and some content, publish it and then try to preview it, you'll notice that you get a 404 error. After creating a new custom post type you need to go to your Settings > Permalinks in your wp-admin, just visiting that page will fix your permalinks to include the new custom post type so if you now go back and refresh the preview of the recipe you just created you'll see that it now works rather than 404s.
Now if you create a new file called single-recipe.php and put some code inside it, just put 'test' now for the purpose of seeing that it works and once you have, refresh the preview of the recipe you just created once again and you should see that it just displays the word 'test'. Using that file you can create a completely custom template to be displayed for showing single entries (posts) of that custom post type, or you could use content-recipe.php if your single.php includes a get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); as you said in your original post.
Obviously your custom post type probably won't be for recipes but just update instances of recipe and recipes to whatever you want it to be.
There are also other post type specific templates you can create too for your archive of the post type etc. The above should be enough to get you started though.
There are also other arguments you can pass when registering your post type, you can see the full list here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type
I hope this helps. Good luck! =)
Creating New post format is not allowed currently by WordPress. you can’t define any post format apart from what WordPress allows.
Reference:
1. http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/proof-using-post-formats/
The Wordpress site I'm working on has a section for "News" (which is the regular blog/posts) which will be used for any news the company has to write about. Then I have a custom post type for Promotions, which has it's own page.
I want the client to be able to add his promotion content through the custom post type, which is going on the Promotions page, however I'd like this content to also be "cross posted" into the blog/news without forcing the client to write it up twice.
Is there a way to do this? Thanks.
Just a note: The reason I have the promotions as a custom type on it's own instead of just having them do it all from the blog is because I needed custom fields that would be unnecessary for any other kind of blog post.
Two options:
1) Use the Shortcode API
And in your cross-post you'd add the shortcode [crosspost id="POST-ID"]. Where POST-ID corresponds to the numeric ID of the other post (post type). Instead of ID, the title could be used, see the function get_page_by_title.
Create your own plugin for this. Add a sample shortcode from the Codex and use the function get_post to get the contents of the cross-post.
2) Use Advanced Custom Fields plugin
With it, adding meta boxes with custom fields is a breeze. And it has a Post Object field that's basically a Cross Post functionality.
You could do it a lot more simply by adding a filter to wp_insert_data(). For example, in your theme's functions.php file add the following:
add_filter('wp_insert_post_data', 'post_to_other', 99, 2);
That filter will then run anytime you add a new post. In the function post_to_other(), you look to see what type of post is being submitted. If it's a promotion, then insert a second copy as a News item.
function post_to_other($post_id, $post){
/** check $post to see what type it is, if it's a promotion */
if($post->post_type == 'promotion'){
$second_post = array(
'post_type'=> 'post',
'post_title'=> $post->post_title,
'post_name' =>$post->post_name,
'post_content'=> $post->post_content,
'post_author'=> $post->post_author,
'post_status'=> 'publish',
'tax_input'=> array('taxonomy_name'=>array('news'))
);
wp_insert_post($second_post);
}
}
I'm running out the door so I don't have time to double check the exact code but that's the basic structure of it. The tax_input bit is optional, lets you specify a category if you want. You'll probably need to tweak it a bit but that's the basics.
I am interested in showing content from my custom wordpress tables which includes various fields into wordpress Standard RSS Feed.
I have so far managed to display custom post type into standard feeds, however, this doesn't do my job as the content I want to display resides in a different custom tables. Content I will be pulling is about title, url, short_description, date etc
Code I have so far is:
add_filter('request', 'myfeed_request');
function myfeed_request($qv) {
if (isset($qv['feed']))
$qv['post_type'] = array('ipc_project_update');
return $qv;
}
Above code pulls content for post type 'ipc_project_update', however, I want to change it so it pulls content from my custom tables. Any help please on how I can achieve this?
Okay I guess I answer my own question.
The way I have accomplished it is using by following the workflow as:
Create a custom template file for rss feed which contains all queries to pull your required content and rss code.
Then cope the following code inside your theme's functions.php
Code:
remove_all_actions( "do_feed_rss2" );
add_action( 'do_feed_rss2', 'ipc_project_feed_rss2', 10, 1 );
function ipc_project_feed_rss2( ) {
if(file_exists(TEMPLATEPATH . '/ipc_rss_feed_template.php'))
load_template( TEMPLATEPATH . '/ipc_rss_feed_template.php');
else
die("RSS Feed not found..");
}
The code above will override your standard feed so it uses your new custom template file for RSS Feeds