using :before to add an icon and a link

Don’t know why I didn’t think of this before…. I could use a Custom Field.
How would I get the info in the Custom Field to replace the meta info in the Blog Post element on a specific page?

I’ll have a play about but if someone comes up with an answer please post it :()

Thanks

TJ

Hi,
Which php template is responsible for the blog post element? More specifically where is the php loop that controls the meta info? Currently it looks for post count and date of a post. I can tweak that to show a Custom field instead once I know where it is.

Thanks

TJ

EDIT.

I have found that loop-index.php can be tweaked to replace meta info on a single post page.
Still can’t find which php file outputs the blog post element.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by tjswarbs78.

Hi Mike.

Does that create the look on the live page or just the look and function of the element on the AviaBuilder canvas?

For example in the loop-index.php you can change the code

echo $title;
				
                echo "<span class='post-meta-infos'>";
                
                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>";
                    }

to remove or add things to the meta info. That only seems to work on the single post page though. I can’t find anything similar in the blog.php mentioned.

Thanks

TJ

Hi,

I’m currently using css to hide the meta info (see first post).
What I then want to do is add in some info from a custom field, hence wanting to get at the php.

I’m using the blog post element, rather than the team member section as I prefer the functionality. In the backend staff is a custom post type that the blog post element then pulls to the live page and displays in the grid layout. I have added a custom field to each “staff” which I then want to display in place of the meta info.

Thanks

TJ

Boom!! Exactly what I needed :)

Thanks

TJ

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Hi all,

I’ve only just got back to this after 7 months and I need some help.

I know from Dude’s reply I’m in the right place and I’ve found the code that I need to tweak. This has been confirmed by sticking some text in there that does show in blog grid meta.

Code to tweak

if($show_meta && !empty($excerpt))
					{
						$meta  = "<div class='slide-meta'>";
						if ( $commentCount != "0" || comments_open($the_id) && $entry->post_type != 'portfolio')
						{
							$link_add = $commentCount === "0" ? "#respond" : "#comments";
							$text_add = $commentCount === "1" ? __('Comment', 'avia_framework' ) : __('Comments', 'avia_framework' );
							$meta .= "<div class='slide-meta-comments'><a href='{$link}{$link_add}'>{$commentCount} {$text_add}</a><p>TEST</p></div><div class='slide-meta-del'>/</div>";
						}
                        $markup = avia_markup_helper(array('context' => 'entry_time','echo'=>false, 'id'=>$the_id, 'custom_markup'=>$custom_markup));
						$meta .= "<time class='slide-meta-time updated' $markup>" .get_the_time(get_option('date_format'), $the_id)."</time>";
						$meta .= "</div>";
						
						if( strpos($blogstyle, 'elegant-blog') === false )
						{
							$output .= $meta;
							$meta = "";
						}

Result

Nice one, stage one complete.

Stage two is to get the custom field data to show where TEST is and this is where I’m coming unstuck.
No matter which code I use the custom field data doens’t show. I’ve tried various formats of the code and none work.
See examples below….

  if($show_meta && !empty($excerpt))
					{
						$meta  = "<div class='slide-meta'>";
						if ( $commentCount != "0" || comments_open($the_id) && $entry->post_type != 'portfolio')
						{
							$link_add = $commentCount === "0" ? "#respond" : "#comments";
							$text_add = $commentCount === "1" ? __('Comment', 'avia_framework' ) : __('Comments', 'avia_framework' );
							$cptlink = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'linkedinurl', true);
							$meta .= "<div class='slide-meta-comments'><a href='{$link}{$link_add}'>{$commentCount} {$text_add} {$cptlink}</a></div><div class='slide-meta-del'>/</div>";
						}

 if($show_meta && !empty($excerpt))
					{
						$meta  = "<div class='slide-meta'>";
						if ( $commentCount != "0" || comments_open($the_id) && $entry->post_type != 'portfolio')
						{
							$link_add = $commentCount === "0" ? "#respond" : "#comments";
							$text_add = $commentCount === "1" ? __('Comment', 'avia_framework' ) : __('Comments', 'avia_framework' );
							$cptlink = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'linkedinurl', true);
							$meta .= "<div class='slide-meta-comments'><a href='{$link}{$link_add}'>{$commentCount} {$text_add} {$cptlink}</a></div><div class='slide-meta-del'>/</div>";
						}

 if($show_meta && !empty($excerpt))
					{
						$meta  = "<div class='slide-meta'>";
						if ( $commentCount != "0" || comments_open($the_id) && $entry->post_type != 'portfolio')
						{
							$link_add = $commentCount === "0" ? "#respond" : "#comments";
							$text_add = $commentCount === "1" ? __('Comment', 'avia_framework' ) : __('Comments', 'avia_framework' );
							$meta .= "<div class='slide-meta-comments'><a href='{$link}{$link_add}'>{$commentCount} {$text_add} </a><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'linkedinurl', true); ?></div><div class='slide-meta-del'>/</div>";
						}

So the question is how can I get data from the custom field called ‘linkedinurl’ to show?
The custom field is on a custom post type does that matter? A little help pointing me in the right direction would be super :)

Thanks

Tim

Hi,

The post has both an excerpt and content, I just removed it for the purpose of the image. I can change the code and get some plain text showing but any php changes just echo the code to the page rather than pulling the customer field info. I’ll try $the_id and see what happens with that.

The info is against a customer post type called staff rather than a standard post / page does that matter?

Thanks

TJ

I photoshopped it out so no one on here could read it. The issue isn’t because of the excerpt or content. I know what i want is possible because like i said i can get plain text to appear where i want. The problem is if i paste various pieces of code the out put breaks, so I must not be using the correct code.

To add a CF in standard wordpress theme you use
<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Mood', true); ?>

Pasting that into the postslider.php just returns errors

Notice: Undefined variable: post in /config-templatebuilder/avia-shortcodes/postslider.php on line 575

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in config-templatebuilder/avia-shortcodes/postslider.php on line 575

I’m not sure how to translate that first bit of code so it outputs the CF.

Thanks

TJ

Hi Ismael,

That’s the same code i originally tried but didn’t work…

$cptlink = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'linkedinurl', true);
$meta .= "<div class='slide-meta-comments'><a href='{$link}{$link_add}'>{$commentCount} {$text_add} {$cptlink}</a></div><div class='slide-meta-del'>/</div>";

The code you supplied does work but they look identical to me! The CF pulls through correctly.
As always you’ve done first class support. 5 stars mate

Thanks

TJ

Hi,

One more quesion and then it can be closed.

Can /config-templatebuilder/avia-shortcodes/postslider.php be placed inside the child theme rather than editing the main theme file?

Thanks

Tim