[Plugin: Posts 2 Posts] shortcode, template, the_content()

Francois Lamotte
(@francoislamotte)

13 years, 11 months ago
Hello Scribu,

I’m working with the shortcode templates. (latest version of your plugin)

With the templates, I could reach every fields of a connected post/page except the_content();

Everything else is displayed like :
```
the_title();
the_permalink();
the_meta();
```
But the_content(); creates a loop.

I’ve tried some turnaround but as I not a dev, I’m not working in a proper way.

Do you have any suggestion for me?

Thank you,

François

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

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Plugin Author scribu
(@scribu)

13 years, 11 months ago

Please post the relevant code (P2P filter + template file) in a http://pastebin.com
Thread Starter Francois Lamotte
(@francoislamotte)

13 years, 11 months ago
Hi Scribu,

Thank you for your answer.
- The static page (output for the final design)
- The current dynamic version (simple listing of p2p shortcodes)
Plugin Author scribu
(@scribu)

13 years, 11 months ago

You didn’t post the relevant code, i.e. the code that takes a list of connected posts and loops through them.

Also, I don’t understand how P2P shortcodes are routed to templates. I assume the WP-Views plugin can only generate standard shortcodes, which implies that the code from P2P isn’t used at all.

Edit: what I’m asking for is your version of the code shown here:

https://github.com/scribu/wp-posts-to-posts/wiki/Actions-and-filters

Thread Starter Francois Lamotte
(@francoislamotte)

13 years, 11 months ago

In my functions.php, I’ve copied the shortcode handler from your wiki

And in WP-VIEWS, my template is that one.

From there, p2p shortcodes are calling the bunch of p2p-list-… .php templates that are rendered on that page.

I don’t know if this method is appropriate.

Another question related to this logic, is that I’m interested to retrieve an URL value in a connected custom field, and to inject it into an other shortcode (for a video player). I retrieve the value but I don’t understand yet how I will use it … (the value is just under the picture (below VIDEO title).

I’m sorry if i’m doing dumb stuff … 😛

F
Thread Starter Francois Lamotte
(@francoislamotte)

13 years, 11 months ago
I’ve seen different kind of connexion like
```
$connected = get_posts( array(
  'connected_items' => $zone_posts,
  'connected_type' => array( 'CONNECTION_TYPE1', 'CONNECTION_TYPE2', ... ),
  'connected_direction' => 'any',
  'post_type' => 'any',
  'suppress_filters' => false
) );
```
But i don’t know how to handle that with the shortcode logic. I’m sure that could help to reduce the number of queries.

And after that as for each connexion I need to extract different fields, … I am a little bit lost 🙂

F
Plugin Author scribu
(@scribu)

13 years, 11 months ago

Don’t query multiple connection types unless you plan to show them together. The lower query count isn’t worth the extra complexity.

Back on topic: using the_content() works fine for me, since the $post global is changed before each template load.

The only situation that I could imagine where this wouldn’t work would be if you have a post connected to itself.
Thread Starter Francois Lamotte
(@francoislamotte)

13 years, 11 months ago
For the topic the_content(), I understand that it works for you but I don’t know how to handle it in my case.

In the “master template”, I need to place different shortcodes on multiple places. And each places has different elements to render.
```
| p2p_cp_video_url | current_post_title + current_post_excerpt |
| p2p_cp_sales_arg_content | p2p_cp_free_training_content |
| p2p_cp_testimonial_title + excerpt | xxxx |
```
So maybe I don’t get the concept of templates for shortcodes, but I can’t figure how to handle different pieces through one connexion and where to place that piece of code.
Thread Starter Francois Lamotte
(@francoislamotte)

13 years, 11 months ago

or maybe the idea to use shortcodes for that kind of template is not a good one?

going straight to standard templates will simplify the process?

Plugin Author scribu
(@scribu)

13 years, 11 months ago

going straight to standard templates will simplify the process?

It might. Just don’t start using p2p_list_posts(). 🙂

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