[Support request] Use WP Show Posts to Replace Blog Archive Page

Elvin, actually as I try to do this again, I wonder… Is it just better to try to CSS style the archives instead of trying to mess with any archive.php?

`<div id=”primary” <?php generate_do_element_classes( ‘content’ ); ?>>
<main id=”main” <?php generate_do_element_classes( ‘main’ ); ?>>
<?php
/**
* generate_before_main_content hook.
*
* @since 0.1
*/
do_action( ‘generate_before_main_content’ );

$cat = get_category( get_query_var( ‘cat’ ) );
$cat_slug = $cat->slug;
if ( function_exists( ‘wpsp_display’ ) )
wpsp_display( 46456, ‘tax_term=”‘ . $cat_slug . ‘”‘
);

/**
* generate_after_main_content hook.
*
* @since 0.1
*/
do_action( ‘generate_after_main_content’ );
?>
</main>
</div>`

I put this in my child theme but then my author archive disappeared so I imagine that needs a different modication?

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Hi Nicolas,

the snippet provided should’ve worked on CPT archive pages as the scope of the condition is broad using is_archive().

But to be sure, you can be more specific and try is_post_type_archive()

Example:

if( is_post_type_archive('your_CPT') ){
//do something.
}

Note: any snippet won’t work if the CPT setting doesn’t have CPT archive enabled. (I believe CPT UI can an option to disable/enable archive. Make sure it’s enabled)

What happens if you change this part of code?

Change if( is_archive() ) to if( is_archive() || is_post_type_archive() )

Let us know how it goes.

ah that makes sense then why it wasn’t working.

That code will definitely not work because you were getting the terms under the taxonomy ‘category’ while pratique is a taxonomy of its own. (and I assume it has its own terms)

I believe the query args for that should be different.

You can set a separate query for that. Example:

if( is_tax('pratiques') ){    
    $terms = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'category' );

    $settings = array(
        'taxonomy' => 'pratiques',
        'tax_term' => array( $term->slug ),
    );
    if ( function_exists( 'wpsp_display' ) ) {
        wpsp_display( 77992, $settings );
    }	   
}

Sorry Elvin, I get back to you as my code does not work:

add_action( 'generate_before_main_content', function(){
if( is_tax('lieu') ){    
    $terms = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'lieu' );
    foreach( $terms as $term ){
    $settings = array(
        'taxonomy' => 'lieu',
        'tax_term' => array( $term->slug ),
    );
	}
    if ( function_exists( 'wpsp_display' ) ) {
        wpsp_display( 78685, $settings );
    }	   
}
}
);

I think adding foreach( $terms as $term ) as I tried it was not a good idea.

Here is what happens, let’s say I go to the archive page for the term “__Normandie” of the taxonomy “Lieu”: https://hautlescours.fr/lieu/__normandie/. There is only one post with the term “__Normandie” on this page (the last one in the list). This post also has the term “Paris lieu variable” from the taxonomy “Lieu”. What seems to happen is that this archive page will give me the list of all the posts with “Paris lieu variable” posts and not those with “__Normandie”.

Would you have any idea on how to make this work? (my goal is to use WPSP on archive pages of custom taxonomies).

Thanks,

Nicolas

Thank you Elvin,

Your code doesn’t seem to work as is but it produces something if I replace 'tax_term' => $term, with 'tax_term' => array( $term->slug )

The result is a bit better (now on my staging site): https://hautlescours.fr/racinetest10/lieu/__normandie/

It displays two WPSP lists (and the regular archive list at the bottom). The first one (a small thumbnail due to CSS settings) works well, this is the only post with “__normandie” term which is what I want.

The second WPSP list is the faulty one displaying posts with “Paris lieu variable” term.

And the third list is the regular archives results produced by the theme (one post as expected).

So this is getting closer, except for the fact that the code generates two wpsp lists.

Best.

Thank you Elvin but we are back at the situation of reply 32434.

Here is what happens:

• If the first post of the archive page has only one term for the taxonomy ‘lieu’ (the slug of the archive page, for example paris-05) there is no problem. For example https://hautlescours.fr/racinetest10/lieu/paris-05/, WPSP and the theme archive module give the same result
• If the first post of the archive has several terms for the taxonomy ‘lieu’ but that the term of the archive page is the last term of the post for this taxonomy, it also works: for example https://hautlescours.fr/racinetest10/lieu/paris-07/
• But if there are several terms for the first post, WPSP is going to display posts having the last term of the first post: https://hautlescours.fr/racinetest10/lieu/paris-06/. For example here, the post « L’improvisation, c’est du théâtre ! » has ‘paris-06’ as a term and ‘paris-13’ as a last one so WPSP displays ‘paris-13’ posts, and not ‘paris-06’ as expected.