Custom Digest

Resolved wouterdoorn
(@wouterdoorn)

3 years, 9 months ago

Hi,

First of all, thanks for the plugin.

I was wondering if there is a way to change the post digest list output generated by [[post_digest style=list]] for an automated emaill campaign that displays the news posts each month.

Specifically I would like to change the author output since I am using a guest author plugin and the standard author in wordpress is incorrect. It would also be nice If I could change the excerpt length and add a “read more” button under each post. Creating a custom template would not be an issue, but I couldn’t find a way to control the list output in your documentation.

Hope you can help.

Best,

Wouter

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Plugin Author Noptin Newsletter Team
(@picocodes)

3 years, 9 months ago

Hi @wouterdoorn,

You’re welcome. Copy the following file into yourtheme/noptin/post-digests/email-posts-list.php and edit accordingly.

https://github.com/hizzle-co/noptin/blob/d331b7d3346df10e1e9e6c468481b8acf3c43254/templates/post-digests/email-posts-list.php

No need to create a custom template. Let me know if you need anything else.

Thread Starter wouterdoorn
(@wouterdoorn)

3 years, 9 months ago

Thanks for the quick reply and link, that does help a lot. I got a long way in styling the list according to my wishes, but I can’t get the right author name and link to work. For reference, I use the premium version of the Guest Author Plugin, here is the dev info https://www.plugins.shooflysolutions.com/guest-author-name/knowledge-base/developer-support.

I normally display the guest-author name with a shortcode:

<?php echo do_shortcode(‘[display_post_author_name]’) ?>

and the link by using a function that uses the post ID:

<?php echo get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta(‘ID’) ); ?>

Both keeps displaying the samee author (me as I superadmin) when I preview the campaign, instead of the guest authors. Any ideas?

Plugin Author Noptin Newsletter Team
(@picocodes)

3 years, 9 months ago

Do any of the shortcodes accept a post ID? If yes, then pass the post ID by calling $campaign_post->ID.

If not, try adding lines 74-77 in the following link to the PHP file that you copied.

https://github.com/hizzle-co/noptin/blob/master/templates/post-digests/email-posts-list.php#L74

If that still doesn’t work, try adding the following code to the same place you added the above lines and check the campaign preview to see if the output includes a guest name and link.

noptin_dump( gap_get_guest_author_by_post( $campaign_post->ID ) );

I’m not able to test the above as I do not have a copy of the plugin, but I believe at least one of them will work for your set-up.

Thread Starter wouterdoorn
(@wouterdoorn)

3 years, 9 months ago

Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much.

Thread Starter wouterdoorn
(@wouterdoorn)

3 years, 8 months ago

Everything is working fine so far! I do have a follow-up question for the post-digest however. I would like to change the email-posts-list.php so that I can display different custom posts types under different headers. Is there a way to load custom post types into the email-posts-list?

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