Doodlebee

Well, when testing, I used a number (instead of a passed value) and it still didn’t function.

I found a workaround, but it required me basically to rewrite the function in another area. Works fine when I do that. So I have no idea what’s up. When I printed out the end result, it was exactly what it should be. I had it narrowed down to the fact that *before* the “while”, it was doing what it was supposed to be doing, but after the “while” part, it was not. i.e. if I printed out what was being pulled immediately after the “if(have_posts()): ” part, it was exactly what I wanted, but if I printed after “the_post():” it was just pulling the one item. so somewhere between “if(have_posts())” and “the_post()” something is doing the funky dance.

Very weird. I’ve chalked it up to a ghost in the machine. I hate that I had to rewrite it in a secondary spot (that’s the point of writing a function – to reuse it), but it’s working fine in the second spot. Makes no sense to me, but I’m letting it go!

Just a note – increasing my memory_limit via wp-config.php did work.

Okay, I got it. Apparently, I needed to pop this all into a function and call on init.

// add the goodies
add_action('template_redirect', 'quotes_redirect');
add_action('init', 'create_quotes_management');

function create_quotes_management() {
  // create the post type
  register_post_type('quotes', array(
    'labels' => array (
	  'name' => __('Quotes'),
	  'singular_name' => __('Quotes Management'),
	  'add_new' => _x('Add Quote', 'quotes'),
	  'add_new_item' => __('Add Quote'),
	  'edit' => _x('Edit Quotes', 'quotes'),
	  'edit_item' => __('Edit Quote'),
	  'new_item' => __('New Quote'),
	  'view' => _x('View Quote', 'quotes'),
	  'view_item' => __('View Quote'),
	  'search_items' => __('Search Quotes'),
	  'not_found' => __('No Quotes Found'),
	  'not_found_in_trash' => __('No Quotes found in trash.')
	),
    'public' => true,
	'show_ui' => true,
	'capability_type' => 'post',
	'_builtin' => false,
	'hierarchical' => false,
	'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'quotes'),
	'query_var' => false,
	'supports' => array('title', 'editor', 'excerpt'),
	'taxonomies' => array('post_tag')
    )
  );
}

// Template selection
function quotes_redirect() {
	global $wp, $wp_query;
	if ($wp->query_vars["post_type"] == "quotes") {
		// Let's look for the property.php template file in the current theme
		if (have_posts()) {
			include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/quotes.php');
			die();
		} else {
			$wp_query->is_404 = true;
		}
	}
}

Now it’s working fine! (However, I still cannot fathom why this mysterious “Slug” thing has shown up under my Excerpt area – really weird. i can’t even find it in the database anywhere to see if I can delete it that way…)

Ha! figured it out. Turns out I was using an “AND” statement (to call in meta keys) in my query that I didn’t need, and was screwing things up. Works fine now!