[Support request] Post Meta for Custom Taxonomy Archives and Category Archive

[qpaq]

Hi,

I have a custom taxonomy called content-type and regular post categories.

On category archive pages, I’d like to display the custom taxonomy (content-type) name underneath the posts with a different icon as categories of each post are displayed.

[Tom]

Hi there,

We can add custom post meta items like this:

add_action( 'generate_post_meta_items', function( $item ) {
    if ( 'content-type' === $item ) {
        $types = get_the_term_list( get_the_ID(), 'content-type', '', ', ' );

        if ( $types ) {
            printf(
                '<span class="content-type-links">%1$s%2$s</span>',
                apply_filters( 'generate_inside_post_meta_item_output', '', 'content-type' ),
                $types
            );
        }
    }
} );

add_filter( 'generate_footer_entry_meta_items', function( $items ) {
    return array(
        'categories',
        'content-type',
        'tags',
        'comments-link',
        'post-navigation',
    );
} );

add_filter( 'generate_svg_icon_element', function( $output, $icon ) {
    if ( 'content-type' === $icon ) {
        $output = '<svg>..</svg>';
    }

    return $output;
} );

add_filter( 'generate_inside_post_meta_item_output', function( $output, $item ) {
    if ( 'content-type' === $item ) {
        generate_do_svg_icon( 'content-type' );
    }
}, 10, 2 );

Hope this helps!

[qpaq]

Thanks Tom, however it broke the site, downsizing the width of the page and gives the following error:

Recoverable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /home/customer/www/sitename.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/code-snippets/php/snippet-ops.php(446) : eval()’d code on line 9

[Tom]

Strange, I just tried it out on my localhost and it’s working fine.

Can you confirm that content-type is the correct taxonomy name?

[qpaq]

My mistake, sorry Tom. content-type should have been content_type

How do we insert an icon to echo ‘YOUR ICON HERE’;

and how do we get rid of the commas in between?

[Tom]

That depends on the icon – is it inline SVG?

To remove the commas, replace this:

$types = get_the_term_list( get_the_ID(), 'content_type', '', ', ' );

With this:

$types = get_the_term_list( get_the_ID(), 'content_type' );

[qpaq]

Thanks Tom, we don’t have commas in between now. The icon should be inline SVG.

[Tom]

I’ve updated the code above to include an example of adding your own SVG to our SVG function: https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/post-meta-for-custom-taxonomy-archives-and-category-archive/#post-1525707

[qpaq]

Hi Tom,

the updated code generates an error.

The code snippet you are trying to save produced a fatal error on line 35:
syntax error, unexpected ”content-type ); ‘ (T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE)

[Tom]

Sorry about that! Should be good to go now.

[Author]

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