[Resolved] Changing image and excerpt source to use meta for some lists

Hi there,

How would the lists use this data, exactly?

It might be possible if Yoast has a function we can use to get that data. You might want to see if their support can provide whether that’s possible/what the post meta names are. If we have that info, we can likely use hooks to output it in each post.

I took a quick look through their documentation but couldn’t find any info on getting that data.

Those are filters, which isn’t quite what we’re looking for.

The meta name should be in the wp_postmeta table in your database under your specific post.

Awesome.

So on those lists, set your content type to “None”.

Then, do this:

add_action( 'wpsp_before_content', function( $settings ) {
    $targets = array(
        '12345', 
        '34567', 
        '56789',
    );

    $content = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), '_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description', true );

    if ( in_array( $settings['list_id'], $targets ) && $content ) {
        echo $content;
    }
} );

So that should do the content.

For the featured images – do existing featured images exist?

That actually makes it easier:

add_action( 'wpsp_before_header', function() {
    if ( ! has_post_thumbnail() && get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), '_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image', true ) ) {
        printf(
            '<div class="wp-show-posts-image">
                <a href="%1$s">
                    <img src="%2$s" alt="" />
                </a>
             </div>',
             get_permalink(),
             get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), '_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image', true )
        );
    }
} );

Let me know 🙂

You’re welcome 🙂