WP-Symposium Blogpost-unable to use it

Hi
Sorry for the late reply, I’m not following this forum as I should…
There’s no need to create a page, and the shortcode you mention doesn’t exist. It’s the WP Symposium profile page which will hold the list of blog posts for a given author, under a dedicated menu item. You then have the ability to display the WPS profile page defaulting to that list of blog posts.
When switching to a horizontal menu, you need to manually add the line “Blog Posts=blogpost” to the profile page menu items, both for “your page” and “other members”, where you can give it your preferred title. For a vertical menu, the item is added automatically, but not for a horizontal one.
Hope everything is clear… Feel free to ask any further question if it isn’t, I’ll do my best to answer ASAP, I promise !…
Thanks for your interrest,
AG

Have a look at developers.txt in the plugin folder (and equally in the zip file). This file describes the hooks of the plugin, which hopefully should make your day…
– The hook ‘symposium_blogpost_query_hook’ allows you to replace the default query with the post_type you want
– The hook ‘symposium_blogpost_row_hook’ allows you to add anything you need to each post row

FYI Next release is planned in the coming weeks, in sync with next release of WP Symposium. Feel free to forward any request and I’ll see what I can arrange in this timeframe.

Eh-eh, and all this has been available since last Summer or so 😉

Don’t forget to turn WP Symposium in debug mode if this doesn’t give you the expected result… Dashboard, WP Symposium > Manage > Settings, bottom of page, and it’ll dump the query at the WPS profile page, blog post menu.

Hi Little Dragon, sorry to read that. For each post, the hook sends both the small bit of HTML that defines the row, and the post ID. You can then either add what you want or replace the row completely.

I’m not too familiar with post thumbnails, but for each post I would get the thumbnail id with get_post_thumbnail_id($post_id) then its URL with wp_get_attachment_image_src($thumb_id). From then I would return to the hook something like $html . < img style=”height;width;” src=”$url” > eventually made clickable. This is untested, but should work…?

Ah, sorry I was too synthetic, assuming you would decode my previous message. If you look at the doc in the Codex for wp_get_attachment_image_src you’ll see it returns an array. So you should put something like:

function symposium_blogpost_row_action ( $html, $post_ID ) {

	$thumb_id = get_post_thumbnail_id($post_id);
	$image_attributes = wp_get_attachment_image_src($thumb_id);
	$html .= '<div class="symposium_blogpost_thumbnail">';
	$html .= '<img src="' . $image_attributes[0] . '" width="' . $image_attributes[1] . '" height="' . $image_attributes[2] . '">';
	$html .= '</div>';

	return $html;
}
add_filter ( 'symposium_blogpost_row_hook', 'symposium_blogpost_row_action', 10, 2 );

Note that I have renamed your class to match its content, but this is strictly up to you. You will also have to play with CSS to align it to the right.

Thanks for your nice words, appreciated.

I can see the added div to each row, it contains img height=”” width=”” src=”” which would indicate that wp_get_attachment_image_src returned an empty array. Isn’t your thumbnail stored as a post attachement ?

Odd… Re-reading the Codex, this seems to corresponds exactly to the functions used above, so it *should* work… But then as I already stressed I’m not an expert regarding thumbnails.

I would, either:
1) Investigate the above by dumping the $thumb_id, with a basic ‘echo $thumb_id;’ right after get_post_thumbnail_id, to check if this actually “Returns the ID of the featured image attached to the post”…?

2) Alternatively, use get_the_post_thumbnail which returns the whole HTML img element:

function symposium_blogpost_row_action ( $html, $post_ID ) {

	$html .= '<div class="symposium_blogpost_thumbnail">';
	$html .= get_the_post_thumbnail($post_ID, 'thumbnail');
	$html .= '</div>';

	return $html;
}
add_filter ( 'symposium_blogpost_row_hook', 'symposium_blogpost_row_action', 10, 2 );

Let me know if any of these allows you to move forward…?