Display Categories and Featured Listings only

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(@chrishpz)

Hi there. Through the help of the developers of this plugin, I was able to implement a change in how categories and their listings are displayed. What I would like to ultimately do is show Categories and only featured listings in each category. Is this possible? One thing that could help is to know how to specifically target “featured listings” A representation of what we’re trying to do is as follows:

Category Name:
Featured Listing
Don’t display non-featured listings

The code I have is below.

<?php
    $categories = get_terms(  WPBDP_CATEGORY_TAX, 'hide_empty=0' );
    ?>

<ul>
            <?php
            foreach ( $categories as $category ):
                    $listings = get_posts( array( 'post_type' => WPBDP_POST_TYPE,
                                                                              'tax_query' => array( array(
                                                                                    'taxonomy' => WPBDP_CATEGORY_TAX,
                                                                                    'field' => 'id',
                                                                                    'terms' => $category->term_id  )  ) ) );
            ?>

<li>
                    <!-- Category title & link -->
                    <a>"><?php echo $category->name; ?></a>

                    <!-- Listings under category (only listing title & link) -->
                    <ul class="listings">
                    <?php foreach ( $listings as $listing ): ?>
                            </li>
<li><a>ID ); ?>"><?php echo $listing->post_title; ?></a></li>
                    <?php endforeach; ?>
                    </ul>
            <?php endforeach; ?>

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Plugin Author Business Directory Plugin
(@businessdirectoryplugin)

10 years, 6 months ago

Hi ChrisHPZ,

Since we already do something like this in the featured listing widget, you might try leveraging the code in there, filtering by category as well as the featured flag.

Have you checked that example out yet?

Thread Starter ChrisHPZ
(@chrishpz)

10 years, 6 months ago

Well I do use the Featured Listings widget in the main directory page but it only shows the listings, not the categories. I suppose I could alter the featured listings function though. Would you be so kind as to point out the files I should look at?
Plugin Author Business Directory Plugin
(@businessdirectoryplugin)

10 years, 6 months ago
Hi Chris,

My developer said to do this:
Featured listings have a metadata key called “_wpbdp[sticky]” set to “sticky”. That’s how he can obtain them using get_posts just as he’s already doing. Something like the following should work:
```
 
$listings = get_posts( array( 
 'post_type' => WPBDP_POST_TYPE, 
 'tax_query' => array( array( 
 'taxonomy' => WPBDP_CATEGORY_TAX, 
 'field' => 'id', 
 'terms' => $category->term_id ) ), 
 'meta_query' => array( array( 
 'key' => '_wpbdp[sticky]', 
 'value' => 'sticky' ) ) 
) ); 
```
The Featured Listings widget does exactly that (with no category specified).

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