Custom post type template identical to blog layout + categories layout

[adriendemonta]

Dear Team,

I’m a total newbie with CPT and have created today my first one. I’m trying to build up a review site based on GP Prime template.

I’ve used the plugin CPT UI and created the CPT “review” and the Taxonomy “ranking”. I would like everything to look exactly like the blog so I have copy-pasted into my GP child Theme both files (single.php and archive.php) that I’ve renamed:

single-review.php
archive-review.php

However, I’m now facing two issues:

1/ When I access to the post category “Top 20” (you can find it on my site main menu), the styling does not look like the category layout of my blog (https://www…./category/cbd-guides/) – two-column, etc…

2/ When I access to both post and Top20 category, I still see all the categories of my blog. I’d like to only show the categories (taxonomies) of my CPT review.

I would really appreciate a little help. Best, Adrien

[Tom]

Hi there,

For columns, this should help: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/using-columns-in-the-blog/#adding-columns-to-your-custom-post-type

For entry meta, these should help:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/generate_entry_meta_post_types/
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/generate-footer-meta-post-types/

Let me know 🙂

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[adriendemonta]

Thank you, Tom! Unfortunately, I tried pasting this into my functions.php but it did not work:

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

return $columns;
}

add_filter( ‘generate_entry_meta_post_types’, function( $types ) {
$types[] = ‘my-post-type’;
$types[] = ‘review’;

return $types;
} );

add_filter( ‘generate_footer_meta_post_types’, function( $types ) {
$types[] = ‘my-post-type’;
$types[] = ‘review’;

return $types;
} );

[Leo]

Did you replace portfolio my-post-type and review with the name of the actual post types you’ve created?

Those are just examples.

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[adriendemonta]

Thanks a lot Leo! Following to your reply, I have replaced these 3 with my CPT which is “review” but it still does not work.

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

return $columns;
}

add_filter( ‘generate_entry_meta_post_types’, function( $types ) {
$types[] = ‘review’;
$types[] = ‘review’;

return $types;
} );

add_filter( ‘generate_footer_meta_post_types’, function( $types ) {
$types[] = ‘review’;
$types[] = ‘review’;

return $types;
} );

[Tom]

Let’s try the columns one first.

So it looks like the page you linked to is the ranking taxonomy page.

add_filter( 'generate_blog_columns', function( $columns ) {
    if ( is_tax( 'ranking' ) ) {
        return true;
    }

    return $columns;
} );

Does that add the columns to it?

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[adriendemonta]

Hello Tom. It worked perfectly!!! I would have never found how to code that. I spent like 3 hours on it. I’m so thankful and excited to read how I can achieve the next step.
Thanks a lot. Adrien

[Tom]

Awesome, glad I could help! 🙂

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[adriendemonta]

Dear tom, Can you help me for point 2)?

[David]

Hi there,

the WP core widgets are not developer friendly, they sort of do one thing – you may want to look for advanced related posts and category widgets in the WP Repo.

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[adriendemonta]

Dear David. Thank you so much. I’m now in touch with a dev who’s going to take over following all your good recommandations.
Really appreciated your help there.
Best, Adrien

[David]

Glad we could be of help

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