[Plugin: Posts 2 Posts] shortcode, filters and templates

Hi Scribu,

With the new logic of filters, I was wondering how it was possible to manage different templates for the same connexion.

Maybe my following suggestion is out of scope and already working. As I’m not a dev, pardon my lack of knowledge on the way to code it.

Current Shortcodes

[p2p_connected type=posts_to_pages]

[p2p_related type=contacts_to_societes mode=ol]

Following my context, I need different display:

1. Same view but different display
2. Different elements extracted from the linked posts

1. Same view : different display

• List unordered
• List ordered
• Table
• Grid
• …

If we took the mode= attribute we could point to template

p2p-list-posts_to_pages.php

• p2p-list-posts_to_pages-ol.php
• p2p-list-posts_to_pages-ul.php
• p2p-list-posts_to_pages-table.php
• p2p-list-posts_to_pages-grid.php

maybe more efficient with a conditional logic inside the same template 🙂

2. Different elements extracted from the linked posts

Sometimes, you need only a Title+Link, but elsewhere you want Title+Link+Excerpt+Thumbnail, …

Same query but different elements to display.

Or another more complex query

Post = p2p link >> Pages = p2p link >> Custom Posts

Example of display :

Page #1 (title+link)
— Custom-Post #1.1 (title+link+thumbnail) // Display in a table
— CP #1.2
Page #2
— CP #2.1
— CP # 2.2
— CP # 2.3

Here maybe we would need to point to different templates … but how to point them i the shortcode

[p2p_connected type=posts_to_pages template=p2p-list-posts_to_pages-view_2]

Once again, thank you for your guidance.

http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/posts-to-posts/