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

Actually, I think I might have confused myself in getting WP Show Posts. Right now it’s live on my main page.

https://magic.facetofacegames.com

But now I’m starting to think that I can probably just style the homepage without it. Used the in-built WordPress latest posts. Or am I missing an advantage?

Hello,

I found the snippet provided hereabove by Elvin works well to show posts on a category archive page using WPSP: https://gist.github.com/ejcabquina/60f052a3667da05d479749cb3be3daad

How would I have to change this snippet for it to work with a custom taxonomy?

Another point: add_filter( 'generate_has_default_loop', '__return_false' ); works well on my GPP theme to remove the default post loop query, but it is not the case if I add conditionals, for example if(is_archive()){ add_filter( 'generate_has_default_loop', '__return_false' );} so I am confused.

Thanks for your help

• This reply was modified 6 days, 21 hours ago by Nicolas.

Thank you Elvin,

I am not sure I understand. I use the following code:

add_action( 'generate_before_main_content', function(){
	if( is_archive() ){
		$cat = get_category( get_query_var( 'cat' ) );
		$cat_slug = $cat->slug;
		if ( function_exists( 'wpsp_display' ) ) 
		   wpsp_display( 77992, 'tax_term="' . $cat_slug . '"' 
		);
	}
});

It correctly uses the 77992 WPSP list on the archive page of categories as seen here: https://hautlescours.fr/racinetest10/category/cours-danse/classique-contemporaine-modern/

But if I go to a custom taxonomy archive page (for example the taxonomy ‘pratiques’) I get the message “Sorry, no posts were found.”: http://hautlescours.fr/racinetest10/pratiques/barre-au-sol/ (but under this message I still see the regular archive posts list as generated by the theme).

I was under the impression that $cat = get_category( get_query_var( 'cat' ) ); refers only to categories and would necessarily have to be changed for it to work with custom taxonomies.

Best.

Sorry it doesn’t work.

But ‘pratiques’ is not a custom post type, it is a custom taxonomy.

I registered it this way:

add_action( 'init', 'create_pratiques_taxonomy' );
function create_pratiques_taxonomy() {
	register_taxonomy(
		'pratiques', 'post',
		array(
			'label' => 'Activités',
			'hierarchical' => true,
			'public' => true,
			'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
			'show_tagcloud' => true,
			'show_admin_column' => true,
			'show_in_rest' => true,
		)
	);
}

Thank you very much Elvin,

I could make the code work changing ‘category’ to ‘pratiques’ and adding foreach( $terms as $term ){ before $settings:

add_action( 'generate_before_main_content', function(){
if( is_tax('pratiques') ){    
    $terms = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'pratiques' );
    foreach( $terms as $term ){
    $settings = array(
        'taxonomy' => 'pratiques',
        'tax_term' => array( $term->slug ),
    );
	}
    if ( function_exists( 'wpsp_display' ) ) {
        wpsp_display( 77992, $settings );
    }	   
}
}
);