[Support request] PODS and display posts

Ok, so you have two custom posts types with posts within them. You’ve created two WPSP lists, one for each custom post type. Do the posts display?

Now each post type post has a collection of custom fields. Where do you want those fields to display within the lists?

Let me know 🙂

Thanks for the video!

WP Show Posts isn’t “smart” enough to detect custom fields for post types, unfortunately.

What you’d need to do is hook those custom fields into the posts.

For example, if you had a custom field with my_custom_field as the name, you could do this:

add_action( 'wpsp_after_title', function( $settings ) {
    if ( 123 === $settings['list_id'] ) {
        $custom_field = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'my_custom_field', true );

        if ( $custom_field ) {
            echo $custom_field;
        }
    }
} );

So this checks for the list ID, and then adds the value from your specified custom field after the title if it exists.

Not overly easy, but quite powerful once you get the functions going.

Let me know if that helps at all 🙂

I’m happy to help if you get stuck. Best thing to do is copy my code above and update the list ID and custom field name, then see what it does. Just be sure that the custom field name is correct and that it has a value for the post it’s supposed to show up inside.

Hi there
Just coming back to this question – am I right in thinking that the Beta release of the most recent version of GeneratePress pro now enables this ability to pull in custom post type fields?
Thank you
Liz

Hi there,

Yes, GP Premium 2.0’s Block Element allows for Dynamic contents taken from custom fields assigned to whatever post type. 🙂