[Support request] Custom fields template howto

[David]

Hello!!
I have been studying the posts about the implementation of advanced custom types and custom fields in Generatepress templates. I don’t know if I have it figured out. Before I start testing in code I would like you to confirm if the following is correct:

I have created two ACT: ‘ong’ and ‘causa’ and their custom fields.
As I have read here in the support forum the steps to show the page of each of these ACT are the following:
1º Copy page.php and rename it with the name of each ACT: ong.php and causa.php
2º Move this files to child folder.
3º Copy content-page.php in child folder and rename it with the name of content-ong.php and content-causa.php
4º In the code of ong.php and causa.php replace the line generate_do_template_part(‘page’) with both
get_template_part(‘content’,’ong’);
get_template_part(‘content’,’cause’);

If everything is ok I need to know in which files do I have to put the HTML and the values of the custom fields of each ACT to design the custom page?
Thank you very much in advance.

[David]

Hi there,

question before diving into rebuilding those templates. Have you looked at whether Hooking in the custom fields would be a viable solution?

https://docs.generatepress.com/article/hooks-element-overview/

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

[David]

Excuse me, it sounds very interesting about the elements but I have looked at it and I think it needs time to learn how to use it.
Can you solve my doubt based on what I have proposed? Later I will dedicate more time to Elements because it seems to be very practical.
Thank you very much.

[David]

Your proposed method is correct.

It is to these files that you would make the edits to include your custom fields:

3º Copy content-page.php in child folder and rename it with the name of content-ong.php and content-causa.php

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

[David]

Sorry again, but this is not working. I think that the theme is not getting the new templates of the ong and causa.
Would you take a look please and tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thank you very much!

[Tom]

I don’t believe you’ve named your post type files correctly.

Post types have two parts – archives and single posts. There are different templates for both, as shown here: https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/custom-post-type-template-files/

So the archive would be named archive-{post-type}.php and the single posts would be single-{post-type}.php.

Then, when you do this:

get_template_part( 'content', 'cause' );

WordPress looks for a file like this: content-cause.php to insert into that area.

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/
Ongoing Development: https://generatepress.com/ongoing-development

[David]

Hi Tom, thanks for your answer. So I dont have to copy page.php and rename it to causa.php? simply copy single.php and rename it to single-causa.php? Also with archive.php.

And into the single-causa.php do I have to change anything?
There is a line with: generate_do_template_part(‘single’);
I have changed (‘single’) for (‘causa’) and (‘single’,’causa’ ) and returns nothing. How I said to WordPress that the CPT causa has a different template with its custom fields? because I think that it is loading the main file single.php without the custom fields.
I am very lost with this issue…
Thanks in advance!!

[Tom]

Correct. You can replace this:

generate_do_template_part( 'single' );

With this:

get_template_part( 'content', 'causa' );

And that will load your content-causa.php file in that location.

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/
Ongoing Development: https://generatepress.com/ongoing-development

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