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Including a custom post type in the Archives widget
I have a custom post type called "videos" that I want to include in the Archives widget (stock widget in the TwentyTwelve theme). It DOES already appear on the archives page, but just not in the ...
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Creating Multiple Admin Widget Page with Calling One Sidebar
Does anyone know how to create multiple admin widget pages with calling specific sidebars?
In Detail,
I have a custom post type called Groups and I am creating new admin pages in the back end.
I ...
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Custom page sidebar using Template dropdown box
i am wondering how i go about making a Template for some of my pages to use a different sidebar? I have created the widget like this:
register_sidebar(array(
'id' => 'ourPat-sidebar',
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Where to put my code: plugin or functions.php?
Is there an easy to understand scheme to decide what kind of code belongs to a plugin or the theme’s functions.php?
There are many cases and many debates about that topic, mostly because there are ...
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fetch meta fields inside a widget
I'm trying to fetch a (date) meta field from a custom post type in a sidebar widget here: http://www.oransje.com/utvikling/ngnf/kurs/
Somehow the date doesn't show correctly inside the widget ...
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Want to be able to sign up subscribers as authors
I want to be able to select a subscriber an author of a post in the admin so it displays their name as having written the post, but I do not want to give them any additional privileges (if they login ...
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the_post_thumbnail call removing li in code
Need some help here. I've been working on a widget to display a list of featured posts (custom post type) and want to display the featured image for each post so I was using the_post_thumbnail call ...
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Random image from tag/custom type on sidebar
How would I pull a single random image from custom post type "athletes" and the custom image field "athletethumbnail" to be displayed in my sidebar? (I have PHP enabled for my text widget on sidebar.)
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Radom post image/link based on custom taxonomy
How would I make a widget to display a random post's image and permalink? I would like it to pull from a specific custom content type and only posts have set the custom field of "featured" to "yes".
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empty dashboard for custom role
I setup a custom post type employee with an agent role that mimics an author role for this particular post type, and so far everything is working fine, except that when I created a test user and ...
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Populated Combo Box not displaying saved value [closed]
On the widget settings for a slider plugin I'm writing I have a combo box that is populated with registered post types (allowing the user to select which post type they want to display images from), a ...
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Register widget only page is a singular of custom post type
I've made a custom post type, with a few accompanying widgets, and I was wondering if it is possible to show (some of) these widgets only if you're on a specific page.
Currently I've got
function ...
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Widget: Custom Post Type Post Listing Dropdown on Admin Side
Widget: I'm making a custom widget with the following functionality on the admin side.
3 text fields
2 dropdown menus to select posts by title (both from a single custom post type)
Right now, ...
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Truncate custom post type content
I am customizing a widget used for displaying testimonials. The widget is working fine, except it shows all content and i want to limit the text/characters so the footer of the website looks balance. ...
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How to exclude categories from a sidebar with active widgets in it?
Is there a way to exclude certain categories from a widgetised sidebar? I've got categories that are associated with custom post types and ones associated with my blog - I don't want to display the ...
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Include custom post types in categories widget
So I got a fairly simple setup, one CPT with the default category and post_tag as taxonomies.
Say I have 1 post and 1 CPT entry assigned to the same category. I need this to be reflected inside the ...
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Code in custom widget queries all posts, when it should only query the current post
I have a query in a custom widget (my first one!) which, if it's of custom post type book, retrieves the post ID. This then gets used in a WP_QUERY to retrieve data about the page.
This works ...
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Add custom post types stats to a custom dashboard widget
I have a lot of custom post types and I have them showing in my "Right Now" Dashboard but it's gotten pretty long so I want to separate them to a custom widget within the dash.
See example below:
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Post_type doesn't work for widgets?
I've found almost the same question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4796165/multiple-loops-in-wordpress-second-loop-not-resetting but the answer doesn't work for me.
I have "portfolio" post type, ...
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How to embed form data within the 'Add new post'
I want users to be able to use a car template in new posts. The template will include items such as a photograph of a car, make, model, number of doors, colour of car, etc.
Users will not want to use ...
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Including Custom Post Types in “Recent Posts” Widget
I'm able to easily include my custom post types into my main loop by making small adjustments with query_posts(), but I'm not sure how I would go about including custom post types in the "Recent ...
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Custom Post Type Data in Sidebar widgets?
(note: this question was originally about Custom Fields, but @MikeSchinkel had a better solution involving Custom Post Types)
On my site I have several pages which I want to show the same data in the ...
