[Resolved] Custom Post Type – can't get columns to work

[Simon]

Hi Generate Press Team,

Big fan of your theme. I have a problem that I hope you can help with.

I have a site that is using a Custom Post Type (boats).

I am trying to get the Custom Post Type to appear in columns on the archive page for that post type, in the same way that the ‘normal’ post types do.

I have ‘normal’ posts set to columns-2 and that works fine. But the custom post type (boats) still shows as one column.

I have found the filter that you supply to fix this, but I can’t get it to work. I am using the Code Snippets plugin as you recommend.

I am using the following snippet of PHP to get the custom post type (boats) to ‘show’ on the website. This worked fine.

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function namespace_add_custom_types( $query ) {
if( is_category() || is_tag() && empty( $query->query_vars[‘suppress_filters’] ) ) {
$query->set( ‘post_type’, array(
‘post’, ‘nav_menu_item’, ‘boats’
));
return $query;
}
}
add_filter( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘namespace_add_custom_types’ );

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I have also added the following filter from the Generate Press website. With a few changes so that it refers to my custom post type. But it doesn’t generate columns.

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add_filter( ‘generate_blog_columns’,’sf_boats_columns’ );
function sf_boats_columns( $columns ) {
if ( is_post_type_archive( ‘boats’ ) ) {
return true;
}

return $columns;
}

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I have de-activated all plugins and tried switching theme, still doesn’t work.

The site is being developed locally so I cannot share a url.

Thank you for any help with this.

PS. Just had a thought. The archive pages I am trying to get to display in Columns are all actually Category archives within a Custom Post Type. Rather than just the archive of the parent Custom Post Type.

eg: Custom Post Type = ‘boats’. Categories within ‘boats’ = ‘bluewater-cruiser’, ‘centreboard’ etc.
It is the category archive page that I am trying to target with the make columns filter. So I need ‘bluewater-cruiser’ archive to be in columns. I hope that is clear. Thanks again for any help.

[Tom]

Hi there,

Your code looks good:

add_filter( 'generate_blog_columns', function( $columns ) {
    if ( is_post_type_archive( 'boats' ) ) {
        return true;
    }

    return $columns;
} );

I would need to actually see the site in order to figure out what’s going on. Any chance you can put it up on a temp live server quickly?

[Simon]

Thank you for your swift reply Tom. I will see if I can ‘make it live’ briefly and get back to you.

[Simon]

Hi Tom, I have put the site up on a subdomain. How do I supply you with url, username and password? Thank you again for this. GeneratePress rocks!

[David]

Hi there,

you can send the URL and login info via the Account Issue form:

https://generatepress.com/contact/

Please add the URL for this topic to the form so we can track.

[Tom]

It seems you need to target categories and tags, instead of a cpt archive.

Let’s try this:

add_filter( 'generate_blog_columns', function( $columns ) {
    $targets = array(
        'bluewater-cruiser',
        'centreboard',
    );

    if ( is_archive( $targets ) ) {
        return true;
    }

    return $columns;
} );

You just need to add more items to the $targets array.

Let me know if you need more info 🙂

[Simon]

Thank you Tom.
Works perfectly.
You have made my day.

[Tom]

Glad I could help! 🙂

[Author]

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