[Resolved] Trying to Add Custom Meta to Blog and Archive Listings

[Samuel]

I’m running into a problem adding a custom entry-meta content. Here’s the situation:

I only want to list my own custom taxonomy rather than WordPress categories.

I added code to output the list of terms associated with a post and registered the generate_after_entry_content hook.

Here’s my two problems:

On the blog page it doesn’t seem to be running that hook at all (I don’t know if this is normal and I should be using another hook instead?). The result is that I see the categories listed at the end of the entry-summary but I don’t see my custom taxonomy terms listed for the post. However, on archive pages it is running the hook.

My second problem is that I only want to display my custom taxonomy not the WordPress categories. If I uncheck the box to show WordPress categories then I get nothing on the blog page listing. On the archive page listing, I lose the categories (which I want) but I also lose my custom taxonomy that’s being input via the hook.

What’s the best way to solve this?

[Tom]

Can you try using the generate_after_content hook instead?

[Samuel]

Thank you, I found the problem. When I disable post categories it turns out GP just hides the html using css rather than not generating category information. Because I had an entry-meta class on my custom taxonomy it was getting hidden by the display: none. I’m not sure how I missed that.

[Tom]

Ah yes – it removes the elements, but can’t remove the empty container so it just hides it.

You can give it a second class like custom and then do this:

.entry-meta.custom {
    display: block;
}

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