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Necessary changes for custom post type (archive and single)
5 replies · Started by David on December 12, 2016
Hello, I'm using GeneratePress for our chess club's website, and we have one custom post type (called 'results', for showing the results from chess tournaments). I was wondering what changes I would need to make in order to do two things (I have created generatepress-child for doing this);
1) Change the default archive page so that more post results are shown per archive page. At the moment each tournament page/results entry looks very big on the archive page. I know that I can copy the archive.php to archive-results.php and override it, but I'm not sure what to actually change in that file.
2) Create a custom results page for particular posts (i.e., single-results.php). I have the PHP/HTML code that prints out the relevant parts of the custom post type, but I'm not sure how to set up the single-results.php file to make it work.
My PHP/HTML skills are quite limited, but given enough examples I can usually sort things out. I had these two things working on a previous template, but I can't seem to work it out for GeneratePress.
Thanks!
Hi David,
1. Typically this is set in "Settings > Reading", however I'm assuming you you need a different value set just for this post type?
2. I think if you need a different template for a specific (single) post, you would need to use page/post templates: https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/page-templates/#creating-page-templates-for-specific-post-types
Let me know if you need more info :)
I'm not sure I explained that very well :) The view of the archive page looks like this, and I was wondering if I could change the visual output of the post listing (and also change the "Archives" heading)? I thought I had to do that in a file called archive-results.php (specific to the custom post type "results").
The second part is related, but in this case I can't find where to change the content in single.php (which I would copy to single-results.php). I'll post the normal GeneratePress single.php code here;
<?php
/**
* The Template for displaying all single posts.
*
* @package GeneratePress
*/
// No direct access, please
if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) exit;
get_header(); ?>
<div id="primary" <?php generate_content_class();?>>
<main id="main" <?php generate_main_class(); ?>>
<?php do_action('generate_before_main_content'); ?>
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php get_template_part( 'content', 'single' ); ?>
<?php
// If comments are open or we have at least one comment, load up the comment template
if ( comments_open() || '0' != get_comments_number() ) : ?>
<div class="comments-area">
<?php comments_template(); ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>
<?php do_action('generate_after_main_content'); ?>
</main><!-- #main -->
</div><!-- #primary -->
<?php
do_action('generate_sidebars');
get_footer();Where in that code would I make changes to alter the body content of posts? For example, on this page it shows that I added; <h2>Tournament results are currently being fixed; back soon.</h2> to single-results.php, but it doesn't appear in the post body; instead it's outside that. So I'm not sure how to edit the template body content of custom "results" pages.
Ah, I understand.
You're right, you should be able to just copy archive.php, add it to your child theme and then name it: https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Type_Templates
As for the content, look at this line: <?php get_template_part( 'content', 'single' ); ?>
It's looking for a file named: content-single.php.
So you could do: <?php get_template_part( 'content', 'results' ); ?>
The copy content-single.php, name it content-results.php and make your changes.
Hopefully this makes more sense :)
That's exactly the part that I couldn't work out, but it's sorted now, thank you!
You're welcome :)
