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March 18, 2014 at 8:53 pm #239608

FotografieDuo
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I’ve created a custom post type which uses “Category” as a taxonomy. When I select “News” as a category in the Latest News widget, no items are displayed. Probably because these items are from another post type. Is there a way to fix this?

March 19, 2014 at 10:52 am #239987
Dude
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Hey FotografieDuo!

You can define a new widget based on the existing newsbox widget. Insert this code:
```
add_action('after_setup_theme','avia_load_additional_widget');
function avia_load_additional_widget()
{
	if (!class_exists('avia_customcptbox'))
	{
		class avia_customcptbox extends avia_newsbox
		{
			function avia_customcptbox()
			{
				$this->avia_term = 'portfolio_entries';
				$this->avia_post_type = 'portfolio';
				$this->avia_new_query = ''; //set a custom query here
				$widget_ops = array('classname' => 'newsbox', 'description' => 'A Sidebar widget to display latest cpt entries in your sidebar' );

				$this->WP_Widget( 'customcptbox', THEMENAME.' Latest CPT', $widget_ops );
			}
		}

		register_widget( 'avia_customcptbox' );
	}
}
```
into your child theme functions.php or into enfold/functions.php and replace “portfolio_entries” with your custom taxonomy, “portfolio” with your custom post type, “Latest CPT” with your widget title/name.

Best regards,
Peter
March 19, 2014 at 12:48 pm #240042
pharefm
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Is it possible to do something similar with avia-shortcodes ?

Say add a custom avia-shortcode in the template builder based on let’s say “Portfolio Grid” but using a different CPT ?

Right now we’ve edited and created custom php files loading them using
```
add_filter('avia_load_shortcodes', 'avia_include_shortcode_template', 15, 1);
function avia_include_shortcode_template($paths)
{
$template_url = get_stylesheet_directory();
array_unshift($paths, $template_url.'/shortcodes/');

return $paths;
}
```
But they don’t benefit from the features you keep adding unless we edit our files manually.
March 19, 2014 at 2:42 pm #240067

FotografieDuo
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I’ve copied this code and pasted it in functions.php, but no new widget shows up in the widget area…

March 20, 2014 at 10:35 am #240615

Dude
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Hey!

Strange because it works on my test server. Please create me an admin account and I’ll check why the code doesn’t work.

Cheers!
Peter

March 21, 2014 at 11:49 am #241110

FotografieDuo
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March 24, 2014 at 7:07 pm #242263

Dude
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Hi!

I created a child theme with the code. You can edit the widget code here: http://test.fotografieduo.com/wp-admin/theme-editor.php?file=functions.php&theme=enfold-child

I couldn’t get it to work with the parent theme though – I’m not sure why but maybe it’s because the child theme functions.php loads before the parent theme files.

Best regards,
Peter

March 24, 2014 at 7:46 pm #242292

FotografieDuo
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Thanks Peter,

Maybe I found the anwser why I doesn’t work with the parent theme. Another customization I did, didn’t work the day before yesterday.
But yesterday it did, so somehow Ii suspect some files are cached (?). So I’ll have a good look at your code add it to the parent theme and wait a day so to see wheter or not the new widget shows up….

I’ll keep you posted!

Best regards,
Arjan
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