Jan Koester

The problem you describe is actually a problem of mesoclumn.
To display the featured category blocks on the homepage they create custom queries. These queries only look for standard posts. These queries are defined in lib/templates/home-feat-cat.php

If you replace the default my_query1 by eg

$my_query1 = new WP_Query(array(
		'cat'=> $featcat1,
		'showposts' => $featcat1_count,
		'post_type' => array(
				'post',
				'rpr_recipe'
				),
		 ));

both recipes and posts will be queried and displayed. Please ask the developer of mesocolumn to make the use of custom post types in thes queries possible. The easiest way might be to add an options field for this.

Just installed bbpress and found the following:

– recipes are accessible as you described
– /forums shows the forums created. I did not further check wether posting etc works.

I kindly ask you to wait for release 0.7.3 and recheck.

Well ok, then I know now that MesoColumn is causing the problem by handling excerpts differently. I’ll try to investigate this closer once I can find the time.

Recipes do not have a “content” field like posts and I don’t see any reason to include a picture or video into the description (aka excerpt) of a recipe. That’s why there is no media button.

I don’t really get your problem. I’ve installed the MesoCoulumn theme on my developing system and it works fine.

So there are two possibilities:
either I’ve (accidentally) fixed the problem in the upcoming release 0.7.3. Then you only have to wait a few days until this version will be released.

The other possibility is that there is a bug affecting only your version of PHP. In this cas I will need the output of the error log of your server.

Hi Lyn,

The behaviour you describe is really strange and I can’t explain it. I tried to reproduce it on my testing system but it worked es expected. When I click on ‘edit’ on the recipes overview page the recipe edit page opens also for a recipe embedded i a ‘normal’ post. So I’ can’t really tell you what the problem is. Are you sure the recipe ID is right?

An easier way to obtain the recipe id is to use the recipe overview in wp-admin, hover the recipe you want to embed. In most browsers the link address will be displayed at the bottom and you can take the id from there.

I’m currently working on a button for the wp editor to make using shortcodes a lot easier.

Regards Jan

Within your theme you can create a file rpr_recipe.php that will take care of displaying single posts. You cann use all template tags that are also used in the files in the templates folder of the plugin.
However if also want to change the appearence of excerpts you will either have to create an own template folder within recipepress-reloaded or do a lot of work on the archive pages of your template. Please not that changes in the plugin folder will get lost with each update. I currently have no better solution however. If you have an idea, let me know.