Adding dynamic content to a plugin CPT

  • Resolved webtent

    (@webtent)


    11 years, 1 month ago

    Not getting any replies to past posts, please let me know if I’m not posting in the correct forum. I am a decent PHP programmer, but new to WordPress development. I did get my feet wet with one site we recently did and love the power of WP shortcodes, however, I am not able to place shortcodes in the pages of a CPT that I need dynamic content.

    I need to add dynamic code to pages produced by a CPT created by a plugin. The code should only generate on the pages for this certain CPT. Depending on values of the CPT categories or custom fields, the code will either include a player in the page for playing an audio playlist or a form with one date field to post back to itself and download an audio file based on that date.

    Could someone suggest the best approach for making this work?

    Thanks, Robert

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  • Lucas Karpiuk

    (@karpstrucking)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Hi Robert,

    I don’t think shortcodes are what you want to use here.

    If I understand correctly, you want to dynamically add HTML to the page output to the single view of your custom post type, depending on the category and/or value of one or more custom post meta fields.

    Depending on where you need the code to appear, you can use action hooks like the_head, the_footer, or the_content

    In your action function you can check if the single view is in use with the is_single() function. You can get the post object of the current post with global $post; etc.

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