Rose

My wordpress blog is hosted by someone else and I do not have direct access to the database via phpAdmin or anything like that. Will such a php script still work?

If I want the display to work the way I want it, the second loop is probably necessary. No one has suggested an alternative.

My markup is essentially like this:

<div class="col1">
[featured image post 1]
[featured image post 4]
[featured image post 7]
</div>
<div class="col2">
[featured image post 2]
[featured image post 5]
[featured image post 8]
</div>
<div class="col3">
[featured image post 3]
[featured image post 6]
[featured image post 9]
</div>

If I fool around with the CSS so that the three divs do not display as side-by-side columns in mobile view, the posts will still be out of order, which does matter to me.

But the text would still be in three columns, which I don’t want.

Nevermind. I’ve found an alternative way to achieve the desired results. 🙂

I found the solution to my second problem as well!

<?php $terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID , 'series' );
if($terms) {
	foreach( $terms as $term ) {
		if ( $term->description !== '' )  {
			echo '(' . $term->description . ') ';
		}
	}
}
?>

This will display the term description if a term description exists.

For those of you interested, I created the following function to display my downloads without a shortcode:

if(!function_exists('download')){
	function download(){
		global $post;
		global $wpdb;
		if(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'mp3_id', true)) {
			$mp3_id = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'mp3_id', true);
			$format = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT meta_value FROM wp_download_monitor_file_meta WHERE meta_name = 'format' AND download_id = $mp3_id ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 0 , 1");
			$filesize = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT meta_value FROM wp_download_monitor_file_meta WHERE meta_name = 'filesize' AND download_id = $mp3_id ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 0 , 1");
			$duration = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT meta_value FROM wp_download_monitor_file_meta WHERE meta_name = 'duration' AND download_id = $mp3_id ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 0 , 1");

			return '<li><a href="http://mywebsite.com/download/' . $mp3_id . '">' . $format . '</a> | <b>Size:</b> ' . $filesize . ' | <b>Duration:</b> ' . $duration . '</li>' . "\n";
		}
	}
}

This takes the Download ID that I’ve included in the custom fields of various posts and displays the download in my post template wherever I insert <?php echo download(); ?>.

JournalPress doesn’t spit this code back out at me like it does shortcodes! It’s too bad I can’t determine how to include the assigned permalink as a variable, but I’ve been using id-based links all along, so it works out fine for me. If anyone does figure out how to snag the Download Monitor permalink without shortcodes, please let me know!

I tried do_shortcode the results were odd. I’m still getting the desired results on single.php (that is, the link is printing as commanded) and my crossposting plugin doesn’t choke, but all that’s crossposted is [download id="681" format="6"] rather than the download link. I feel like maybe I’m getting closer…

if(!function_exists('dw13')){
	function dw13(){
		global $post;
		if(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'mp3_id', true)) {
			if (intval(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'mp3_id', true)) > 0) {
				$mp3_display = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'mp3_id', true);
				return do_shortcode('[download id="'.$mp3_display.'" format="6"]');
			}
		}
	}
}