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1. solidariti
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Can anyone help me fix this loop I just want it to display only the posts from the mlinks category including the image and content. But it's not working as expected can someone please end my 1 week of frustration!

   Attached is the code thats powering the links at the bottom in the grey box:

   http://propono.co.uk/clients/curo/medical-reimbursement

   Whatever I try I can't get it to pull out the images and the content.

   I have categories called mlinks, llinks and plinks, and will need to do this on three different pages.

   So I'm trying to produce:

   image 1 post 1 | image 4 post 6
   image 2 post 2 | image 5 post 6
   image 3 post 3 | image 6 post 6

   <div id="link-box">
   
     <p id="linkbox-top">Medical Reimbursement Links</p>
   
   <?php query_posts('category_name=mlinks&showposts=3'); ?>
   
   <?php $posts = get_posts('numberposts=3&offset=0'); foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
   
   <?php static $count1 = 0; if ($count1 == "3") { break; } else { ?>
   
   <div class="linkgroup"><!-- FIRST LOOP: display posts 1 thru 3 -->
   
   	<div class="small-boxes">
   
           <div id="img"><img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'medical', true); ?>" alt="slide<?php the_ID(); ?>" width="84" height="55"/></div>
   
           <div id="txt">
   
           <h5 class="txt1"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h5>
   
           <?php echo content(); ?>
   
           </div>
   
     	</div>
   
   </div>
   
   <?php $count1++; } ?>
   
   <?php endforeach; ?>
   
   <?php query_posts('category_name=mlinks&showposts=3'); ?>
   
   <?php $posts = get_posts('numberposts=3&offset=3'); foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
   
   <?php static $count2 = 0; if ($count2 == "3") { break; } else { ?>
   
   <div class="linkgroup"><!-- SECOND LOOP: display posts 1 thru 3 -->
   	<div class="small-boxes">
           <div id="img"><img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'medical', true); ?>" alt="slide<?php the_ID(); ?>" width="84" height="55"/></div>
           <div id="txt">
           <h5 class="txt1"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h5>
           <?php echo content(30); ?>
           </div>
     	</div>
   </div>
   <?php $count2++; } ?>
   <?php endforeach; ?>
   </div>

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 2 years ago #

   the error message comes because you did not include a parameter for the content function in the first loop:
   <?php echo content(); ?>
   as compared to the second loop.

   for your desired layout, you would need to wrap each loop into a div (fixed width, floated left).

3. solidariti
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   thank you alchymyth for your reply, I missed that one, I have fixed that so there is no error.

   The layout is fine and works how I want, as you'll see now that the you told me about that error.

   But the images and the content does not show up. Do you know how I can get it to show up?

   Thank you.

4. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 2 years ago #

   are the custom fields defined and filled in?
   what is the value of the custom fields?

   what does the function 'content(30)' do?
   is this function working in other files?

   have you tried to use 'setup_postdata($post);' in your code?
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts

5. solidariti
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Yes the custom fields are defined:

   name: medical
   value: links/medlink6.jpg

   echo content(30) limits the content to just 30 words using this code from the functions.php:

   function content($limit) {
     $content = explode(' ', get_the_content(), $limit);
     if (count($content)>=$limit) {
       array_pop($content);
       $content = implode(" ",$content).'...';
     } else {
       $content = implode(" ",$content);
     }
     $content = preg_replace('/\[.+\]/','', $content);
     $content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);
     $content = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $content);
     return $content;
   }

   No yet I'll take a look.

6. solidariti
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I used this http://bavotasan.com/tutorials/limiting-the-number-of-words-in-your-excerpt-or-content-in-wordpress/.

   But now it isn't working.

   On my localhost it just display a white page.

7. solidariti
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Ok so now I have managed to get the content in by dropping the echo content function. But for some reason the images are being pulled in.

   <?php $posts = get_posts('category_name=mlinks&numberposts=6&offset=0&order=ASC'); foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
   <?php static $count1 = 0; if ($count1 == "3") { break; } else { ?>
   <div class="linkgroup"><!-- FIRST LOOP: display posts 1 thru 3 -->
   <div class="small-boxes">
   <div id="img"><img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'medical', true); ?>" alt="slide<?php the_ID(); ?>" width="84" height="55"/></div>
   <div id="txt">
   <h5 class="txt1">" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></h5>
   <?php the_content(); ?>
   </div>
   </div>
   </div>

   <?php $count1++; } ?>
   <?php endforeach; ?>

   <?php $posts = get_posts('category_name=mlinks&numberposts=6&offset=3&order=ASC'); foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
   <?php static $count2 = 0; if ($count2 == "3") { break; } else { ?>

   <div class="linkgroup"><!-- FIRST LOOP: display posts 1 thru 3 -->
   <div class="small-boxes">
   <div id="img"><img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'medical', true); ?>" alt="slide<?php the_ID(); ?>" width="84" height="55"/></div>
   <div id="txt">
   <h5 class="txt1">" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></h5>
   <?php the_content(); ?>
   </div>
   </div>
   </div>

   <?php $count2++; } ?>
   <?php endforeach; ?>

8. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 2 years ago #

   it seems that $post->ID is not defined where you call the custom fields.

   to checks this, try and add <?php echo $post->ID; ?> before this line:
   

   <div id="img"><img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'medical', true); ?>" alt="slide<?php the_ID(); ?>" width="84" height="55"/></div>

   or try to use get_the_ID() instead of $post->ID

9. solidariti
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   For some reason it only displays one image I'm using the get_the_ID() at http://propono.co.uk/clients/curo/medical-reimbursement. Why would it display only one image. I'm also echoing get_the_ID() before the image tag as you mentioned.

10. alchymyth
    The Sweeper
    Posted 2 years ago #

    double check if each post has the custom field filled in;

    sometimes a plugin interferes with the wordpress template tags:
    deactivate all plugins;
    if that solves the problem, re-activate one plugin at the time, and see if the error reoccurs.

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