Akram Taghavi-Burris

After some trial and error I discovered my problem was in the way I was query the taxonomy for the lesson. Also I had be using the category name, which I should have be query the category slug.

In the end I used the following query to retrieve the correct lessons by category for each course:

<?php
			 	$lesson = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'lessons', false); //get the lesson custom field values as an array

			 	foreach($lesson as $lesson) {
			 	//for each lesson (array)
			 ?>		

					<tr>
						<th>

						<?php
							$lesson_name = get_term_by( 'slug', $lesson, 'category');
							echo $lesson_name->name;
								//echo lesson name
							 ?>
						</th>
					</tr>
					<?php

/* Lesson query */
                    $args = array(
                        'post_type' => 'lessons',
                        'orderby'=> 'date',
					  'orderby'=> 'date',
                        'order' => 'ASC',
                        'tax_query' => array(
        					array(
          						'taxonomy' => 'lesson_category',
          						'field' => 'slug',
          						'terms' => $lesson
        					)
						)

                );
                    //get the taxonomy (cat) for the lesson value

						$mylessons = get_posts( $args);
						//query the lesson category
						foreach ( $mylessons as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
					<tr>
						<td>
		                  <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
						</td>
					</tr>
					<?php endforeach;
/*end lesson query*/
				}
			?>

That it! I can’t believe I didn’t notice that.
Thanks for your help, it works great now.

Thank you for the help!

echo paginate_links($args);

Seemed to fix the function problem. However after viewing the page I don’t get page numbers. The only thing that is displayed is the word Array

Does anyone have an idea why this could be happening?

Does no one have answer????

Thanks for your quick response.
When you asked about adding a text widget, I did, and it didn’t work. So then I just added some text and that still didn’t show.

This lead me to believe there was something wrong in my theme. There was!
It turns out I had a an if logged in condition right before the widget that hadn’t been closed.

Sorry to bother you with this.

I’ve fixed it now.

Thanks again for your swift reply.

Thanks!
I checked out the blog post you mentioned and it did the trick. I now have paragraph tags in the content of my rss feed.

I did notice though that some readers still don’t show the formatting, for example the Sage extension in Firefox, but in Safari it seems to be just fine. It may just depend on the reader then, because the XML appears to be correct.

This might also be attributed to the individual reader, but the captions to my images in the rss typically show up fine, while say for example in Sage extention for Firefox it displays with the caption tag around it like so:

[caption id="attachment_1895" align="aligncenter" width="599"] Caption Text Here [/caption]

Any ideas why this would happen?

Oh, and I also notice in the XML there is an unmatched paragraph tag before the content, I just wonder where it is coming from. We’ll at least the main paragraph issue is resolved.

This is what I ended up putting in my functions.php

/*FORMAT get_the_content WITH PARAGRAPHS*/
function get_the_content_with_formatting ($more_link_text = '(more...)', $stripteaser = 0, $more_file = '') {
	$content = get_the_content($more_link_text, $stripteaser, $more_file);
	$content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);
	$content = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $content);
	return $content;
}

/* THUMBNAIL IN RSS FEED */
function rss_post_thumbnail($content) {
	global $post;

	if(has_post_thumbnail($post->ID)) {
		$content = '<p>' . get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID) .
		'</p>' . get_the_content_with_formatting();
	}

	return $content;
}

add_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'rss_post_thumbnail');
add_filter('the_content_feed', 'rss_post_thumbnail');

Thanks, that helped