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  • January 22, 2021 at 4:22 pm #1274780
    connect4consulting

    Love the theme.
    I need to add a custom field that can include a link to the span class=”post-meta-infos” line within blog posts.

    What’s the best way to do this? I need to be able to enter this information at the blog post editor. This custom field we can call “outlet” should be the first item, as follows:

    Outlet / Date / Categories / Author

    Site link and info in private content.

    Thanks!

    January 25, 2021 at 7:59 am #1275194
    Ismael

    Hey connect4consulting,

    Thank you for the inquiry.

    You should be able to use the get_post_meta function to get the custom field and render it in the enfold\includes\loop-index.php file around line 375 where the post meta info container is located.

    // https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_meta/

    Best regards,
    Ismael

    January 25, 2021 at 12:31 pm #1275242
    Guenni007

    and “Outlet” it is just a text input ?

    Just the Admin Area Part so far:

    you will then have a meta box input field where author or excerpt is placed.
    If you like you can have the meta box field at the side

    and

    All comes to child-theme functions.php:
    if you like to have the meta_box at the side – replace “normal” with “side”

    function add_custom_meta_box(){
    add_meta_box("Outlet", "Outlet Meta Box", "outlet_meta_box_markup", "post", "normal", "default", null);
}
add_action("add_meta_boxes", "add_custom_meta_box");

//markup for metabox
function outlet_meta_box_markup($object){
    wp_nonce_field(basename(__FILE__), "meta-box-nonce");
    ?>
        <div>
            <label for="outlet">Text</label>
            <input name="outlet" type="text" value="<?php echo get_post_meta($object->ID, "outlet", true); ?>">
        </div>
    <?php  
}

// storing the data
function save_outlet_meta_box($post_id, $post, $update){
    if (!isset($_POST["meta-box-nonce"]) || !wp_verify_nonce($_POST["meta-box-nonce"], basename(__FILE__)))
        return $post_id;
    if(!current_user_can("edit_post", $post_id))
        return $post_id;
    if(defined("DOING_AUTOSAVE") && DOING_AUTOSAVE)
        return $post_id;
    $slug = "post";
    if($slug != $post->post_type)
        return $post_id;
    $meta_box_text_value = "";
    if(isset($_POST["outlet"])){
        $meta_box_text_value = $_POST["outlet"];
    }   
    update_post_meta($post_id, "outlet", $meta_box_text_value);
}
add_action("save_post", "save_outlet_meta_box", 10, 3);

function add_new_columns($columns) {
    $post_type = get_post_type();
    if ( $post_type == 'post' ) {
        $new_columns = array(
            'outlet' => esc_html__( 'Outlet', 'text_domain' ),
        );
        return array_merge($columns, $new_columns);
    }
}
add_filter( 'manage_posts_columns',  'add_new_columns' );

function my_show_columns($name) {
    global $post;
    switch ($name) {
        case 'outlet':
        $outlet = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'outlet', true);
        echo $outlet;
    }
}
add_action('manage_posts_custom_column',  'my_show_columns');

// sort columns to your needs - do not list columns in the array if you do not want them (f.e. comments)
function my_outlet_columns_definition( $columns ) {
  $customOrder = array('cb', 'title', 'outlet', 'date', 'author', 'categories', 'tags', 'comments');
  foreach ($customOrder as $colname)
    $new[$colname] = $columns[$colname];    
  return $new;
}
add_filter( 'manage_posts_columns', 'my_outlet_columns_definition' ) ;

    next could be to have the option of sortable in list-view.
    And to put this meta into quick edit field.

    For the frontend you could follow Ismael’s advice

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by Guenni007.
    January 25, 2021 at 4:12 pm #1275291
    connect4consulting

    Ismael and Guenni007,

    Can you walk me through the steps a bit more? I have installed Advanced Custom Fields. On the backend, within the post editor, I’ve created the field group “Outlet” with Publication URL and Publication. I want this to go in post-meta between the Published Date and the Blog Post Categories.

    What exactly do I do?

    Many thanks for your help!

    January 25, 2021 at 5:05 pm #1275304
    connect4consulting

    I can tell I’m doing something right because I see the text separator in the blog post but still can’t see the field group I added. Please help. The post link is: https://greatfamilyvacations.com/whether-to-cruise-or-not/

    I added the loop-index.php file to my child theme and have edited the following section of it:

    if ($blog_style !== ‘bloglist-compact’) :

    echo “<span class=’post-meta-infos’>”;

    // add Publication to post-meta-info section of blog

    echo “<time class=’date-container minor-meta updated’ >”.get_post_meta( $post_id, $key = ‘group_600ae1c0bda45′, $single = false ).”</time>”;
    echo “<span class=’text-sep text-sep-date’>/</span>”;

    echo “<time class=’date-container minor-meta updated’ >”.get_the_time(get_option(‘date_format’)).”</time>”;
    echo “<span class=’text-sep text-sep-date’>/</span>”;

    if ( get_comments_number() != “0” || comments_open() ){

    echo “<span class=’comment-container minor-meta’>”;
    comments_popup_link( “0 “.__(‘Comments’,’avia_framework’),
    “1 “.__(‘Comment’ ,’avia_framework’),
    “% “.__(‘Comments’,’avia_framework’),’comments-link’,
    “”.__(‘Comments Disabled’,’avia_framework’));
    echo “</span>”;
    echo “<span class=’text-sep text-sep-comment’>/</span>”;
    }

    if(!empty($cats))
    {
    echo ‘<span class=”blog-categories minor-meta”>’.__(‘in’,’avia_framework’).” “;
    echo $cats;
    echo ‘</span><span class=”text-sep text-sep-cat”>/</span>’;
    }

    echo ‘<span class=”blog-author minor-meta”>’.__(‘by’,’avia_framework’).” “;
    echo ‘<span class=”entry-author-link” >’;
    echo ‘<span class=”vcard author”><span class=”fn”>’;
    the_author_posts_link();
    echo ‘</span></span>’;
    echo ‘</span>’;
    echo ‘</span>’;

    January 25, 2021 at 7:01 pm #1275319
    Guenni007

    First of all: if you want to post code – please use the code tags here. It’s much easier to inspect and check if a code will work or not.

    Sorry didn’t saw that you want to achieve this only by custom fields. My way offers a real meta box. A meta box has different advantages.

    you then can use the meta box for your f.e. loop-index.php
    you see the post-meta-info starts from 373

    f.e. if you like to show the saved “Outlet” after categories
    look for:

    if( ! empty( $cats ) )
{
	echo '<span class="blog-categories minor-meta">' . __( 'in','avia_framework' ) . ' ';
	echo	$cats;
	echo '</span><span class="text-sep text-sep-cat">/</span>';
}

    and insert after that:

    $outlet = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'outlet', true);
if(!empty($outlet))
{
	echo '<span class="outlets minor-meta">'. __( 'Outlet:','avia_framework' ) . ' ';
	echo $outlet;
	echo '</span><span class="text-sep text-sep-cat">/</span>';
}

    it will show then as:

    January 26, 2021 at 7:01 pm #1275544
    connect4consulting

    That didn’t work. When I inserted it, the blog post disappeared entirely. Was your instruction for using Advanced Custom Fields or for your meta box?
    Any other suggestions?

    January 26, 2021 at 7:44 pm #1275554
    connect4consulting

    moved to https://pastebin.com/bWjPa9aX

    January 28, 2021 at 4:13 am #1275929
    Ismael

    Hi,

    Thank you for the update.

    You may need to replace all instances of $post->ID and $post_id with $the_id so..

    $outlet = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'outlet', true);

    .. should be.

    $outlet = get_post_meta($the_id, 'outlet', true);

    Best regards,
    Ismael

    January 29, 2021 at 12:43 am #1276196
    connect4consulting
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    January 29, 2021 at 9:56 pm #1276443
    connect4consulting

    I finally figured this out and wanted to report back on my findings.

    To reiterate, my goal was to create an advanced custom field called Outlet to show where a post was originally published. I wanted the order of the post-meta-infos line to be as follows:

    Line 1 – Date / Outlet / Author
    Line 2 – Categories

    The solution was to create a folder within my child theme called “includes”, copy the loop-index.php file into the “includes” folder in the child theme.

    Then I moved the code around starting at Line 341.

    The key code is as follows:

    $outlet = get_field('publication_name', $the_id, true);
						if(!empty($outlet))
						{
						echo '<span class="outlets minor-meta">Outlet: </span>';
						echo $outlet;
						echo '<span class="text-sep text-sep-cat">|</span>';	
						}
    February 1, 2021 at 3:54 am #1276649
    Ismael

    Hi,

    Awesome! Glad to know. Please do not hesitate to open a new thread if you need anything else.

    Have a nice day.

    Best regards,
    Ismael

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