[Resolved] Styling Related Custom Posts

[Dee]

I created a related custom post using WP Show Posts and an element hook.
I need to know how to style the output.
I am using the Dispatch site as a basis, and would like to apply the following classes (wpsp-card, zero-padding, no-background) similar to the standard sidebar from dispatch.

I created a list based on my custom post type and taxomony in WP SHow Posts.
I then created a related event query using a, Element hook which displays the WPSP list just above the right sidebar.

Where do I reference/apply the classes I want to style the related sidebar posts? DO I need to create a shortcut to apply them?

Here is my coding from the Related-Event Element:

<?php
if ( is_singular(‘event’) ) {
$cats = get_the_terms($post->ID, ‘event_category’);
$cat = $cats[0];
} else {
$cat = get_the_terms( $post->ID, ‘event_category’, get_query_var( ‘event_category’ ) );
}

$cat_slug = $cat->slug;
$list = get_page_by_title( ‘eventrelated’, ‘OBJECT’, ‘wp_show_posts’ );
wpsp_display( $list->ID, ‘tax_term=”‘ . $cat_slug . ‘”‘ );

?>

Thanks for your help.

[Tom]

Hi there,

If you’re using the latest beta of WP Show Posts Pro, there’s a custom class field you can add classes to in the More Settings tab.

Let me know 🙂

[Dee]

OK, you can have my money. I am upgrading to pro.

[Tom]

Ah sorry – I assumed you had pro. There are likely ways to do it without pro if you’d prefer 🙂

[Dee]

That is OK, I like to keep the paid options as few as possible, so not to nickle and dime myself to death.
There are a number of other things I was looking at as well. The pro version simplifies things for me so I can move on to other areas of the website.

I saw a post on how to use custom archive pages and use your plugin to display the posts.

Will I need to create a separate page for EVERY category, or can I for some, and the others default to the standard archive page?

[Tom]

It’s not easy to replace default archives with WPSP at the moment, unfortunately.

You could tweak the theme templates to use a WPSP list in the archive.php file, but we haven’t tested it much yet, so we don’t have solid instructions on how to do it.

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