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  • louisstephens

    (@louisstephens)


    13 years, 3 months ago

    Alright.. I have wordpress set up (only using pages), and I have a sidebar-lef.php and sidebar-right.php. The page structure is sidebar left | content(page content) | sidebar right … I was trying to pull in CPT into my left sidebar. However, when I do, it appears in the content section totally overriding the page content I entered in. I have this in my functions.php:

    <?php
// Creates Movies post type
register_post_type('movies', array(
'label' => 'Movies',
'public' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'hierarchical' => false,
'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'movies'),
'query_var' => true,
'supports' => array(
'title',
'editor',
'excerpt',
'page-attributes',)
) );
?>

    And I have this in my sidebar-left.php:

    <div id="sidebar-left">
<?php query_posts(array('post_type' => array('post', 'movies'))); ?>
</div>

    Any clue what I am doing wrong

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  • vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    You are not using the results of the query in the sidebar. You probably should use a new WP_Query object and loop through displaying the results. Something like this:

    <div id=”sidebar-left”>
    <?php $movies = new WP_Query(array(‘post_type’ => array(‘post’, ‘movies’)));
    if ($movies->have_posts()) {
    while ($movies->have_posts()) {
    $movies->the_post();
    // display whatever you want from each post
    }
    }
    ?>
    </div>`

    Thread Starter louisstephens

    (@louisstephens)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    Oh ok.. So correct me if I am wrong..

    where you have “display whatever you want”, I could simply put <?php the_title(); ?>
    ?

    I am pretty new to manipulating the post data.

    vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    That is close: you do not need the opening and closing php tags for that particular line.

    Thread Starter louisstephens

    (@louisstephens)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks vtxyzzy!

    It did work. However, I tried adding

    <h5>the_title();</h5
<p>the_content();</p>

    and it broke entirely. It seems the only thing I got working was just

    the_title(); which displayed everything in the post..

    vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    You are mixing HTML and PHP. PHP needs to be enclosed in php tags – HTML cannot be enclosed. So, you have to watch where you use the tags.

    <div id="sidebar-left">
<?php $movies = new WP_Query(array('post_type' => array('post', 'movies')));
if ($movies->have_posts()) {
   while ($movies->have_posts()) {
      $movies->the_post(); ?>
      <h5><?php the_title(); ?></h5>
      <p><?php the_content(); ?></p>
   }
}
?>
</div>
    Thread Starter louisstephens

    (@louisstephens)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    Ah.. That was a big mess up on my behalf.. Thanks vtxyzzy.. . I appreciate the help and your patience with me.

    With your code 

    <div id="sidebar-left">
<?php $vids = new WP_Query(array('post_type' => array('post', 'vids')));
if ($vids->have_posts()) {
while ($vids->have_posts()) {
$vids->the_post();?>
<h1> <?php the_title(); ?></h1>
the_content();
}
}
?>
</div>

    I noticed that the last closing ?> is not getting picked up. Well, in coda the color highlighting is not seeing it as a closing tag and wordpress is breaking again. I understand what you are saying though by having to encapsulate the_content(); in php tags.

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