[Plugin: Press, News, Events] Cannot Create Lists of Posts

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(@kirkward)

I am coding a “tabber” in the sidebar. The tabber has three tabs, one for each custom post type created by the plugin. I cannot get the tabber to list the press and events posts. Here is what one of my advisors gave me …

(1) Added to theme functions

function tj_tabs_news($posts = 5) {
    $news = query_posts( array( 'post_type' => 'news', 'posts_per_page' => $posts ) );
    while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
?>
<li>
     <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
    <div class="clear"></div>
</li>
<?php endwhile;
}

function tj_tabs_press($posts = 5) {
    $news = query_posts( array( 'post_type' => 'press-releases', 'posts_per_page' => $posts ) );
    while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
?>
<li>
     <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
    <div class="clear"></div>
</li>
<?php endwhile;
}

function tj_tabs_events($posts = 5) {
    $news = query_posts( array( 'post_type' => 'events', 'posts_per_page' => $posts ) );
    while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
?>
<li>
     <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
    <div class="clear"></div>
</li>
<?php endwhile;
}

Code in the tabber sidebar …

<?php if (get_theme_mod('tabber') == 'Yes') { ?>
<div class="tabber">
    <ul id="tabs" class="tabs">
        <li><a href="#news" rel="news" class="selected"><?php _e('News', 'themejunkie'); ?></a></li>
        <li><a href="#press" rel="press"><?php _e('Press', 'themejunkie'); ?></a></li>
        <li><a href="#events" rel="events"><?php _e('Events', 'themejunkie'); ?></a></li>
    </ul>
    <div class="clear"></div>
    <ul id="news" class="tabcontent">
    <h2><center><b><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/news/">Click Here To See More About Us In The News!</a></b></center></h2>
    <br />
    <?php tj_tabs_news(); ?>
    </ul>
    <ul id="press" class="tabcontent">
    <h2><center><b><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/press/">Click Here To See What's Coming Up!</a></b></center></h2>
    <br />
    <?php tj_tabs_press(); ?>
    </ul>
    <ul id="events" class="tabcontent">
    <h2><center><b><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/events/">Click Here To See What's Coming Up!</a></b></center></h2>
    <br />
    <?php tj_tabs_events(); ?>
    </ul>
<script type="text/javascript">
    var tabs=new ddtabcontent("tabs")
    tabs.setpersist(false)
    tabs.setselectedClassTarget("link")
    tabs.init()
    </script>
</div> <!--end: tabber-->
<div class="clear"></div>
<?php } ?>

Can you tell us what we did wrong in trying to list the press-releases and events posts?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/press-news-events/

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Thread Starter kirkward
(@kirkward)

11 years, 7 months ago

Solved

The developers of this plugin were inconsistent in their naming. Their slug shows the types all as plural press-releases, news and events. while the actual post type is hidden away inside and the only post type that is plural is news.

Caused a lot of heartache wasting three and a half days trying to figure out why I could not list the posts in all three types. I am a non-coder and only discovered the difference by accident.

Not sure it can be called sloppy coding, but I do know it was frustrating.

rafaelfaria
(@rafaelfaria)

11 years, 5 months ago

I did a quick shortcode to display on my homepage:

in the custom-post-type.php constructor i added:

add_shortcode($this->slug, array($this, 'plugin_shortcode') );

Than i created 2 other functions

function plugin_shortcode($atts) {

$file = get_stylesheet_directory(). “/home/”.$this->slug.”.php”;

if ( !file_exists( $file ) )
return false;

$args = array(
‘post_type’ => $this->slug,
‘post_status’ => ‘publish’,
‘posts_per_page’ => is_numeric($atts[‘count’]) ? $atts[‘count’] : 5,
‘order’ => ‘DESC’
);
$posts = query_posts($args);
wp_reset_query();

$items = Array();
$pne = ‘press-news-events’;

foreach($posts as $k => $item) {

$link = get_permalink($item->ID);

$date = get_post_meta($item->ID, ‘_date’, true);

$item->day = date_i18n(__(‘d’, $pne), $date);
$item->month = date_i18n(__(‘M’, $pne), $date);
$item->year = date_i18n(__(‘Y’, $pne), $date);
$item->title = $item->post_title;
$item->link = (strpos($link, ‘http://’) !== false) ? $link : “http://{$link}”;

$items[$k] = $item;
}

return $this->render_template($file, $items);
}

function render_template($template, $data){

if ( !file_exists( $template ))
return;

ob_start();
include($template);
$html = ob_get_clean();
return $html;
}

than all i had to do was call like:

[news count=10]

or [events count=10]

and it would get the template from a folder called “home” in my themes and display the html. 🙂

hope it helps.

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