Terms not shown for custom post type

Hi George,

Not exactly sure why it’s occurring.

It’s likely how the CPT is set up.

I’ve made a quick demo for you here – https://dev-generate-press.pantheonsite.io/swords-wpsp/ – which shows “swords” cpt. You can see that there’s a title and date displaying which means its not empty.

Are you using a plugin for the CPT creation? You may want to consider asking its support or referring to its documentation on how to set things up properly. 😀

When you open the CPT’s default archive page, does the term meta appear?

WPSP’s code for the terms is pretty straightforward. It gets whatever is associated with the post, it’s here – https://github.com/tomusborne/wp-show-posts/blob/35e410d7800273fc66f211c0f80d553e95d17f83/inc/functions.php#L103-L105

Try adding this PHP snippet:

add_filter( 'wpsp_terms_output', function( $output, $settings ){ 
	$output = sprintf( '<span class="wp-show-posts-terms wp-show-posts-meta">%1$s</span>',
				get_the_term_list( get_the_ID(), $settings[ 'taxonomy' ], '', apply_filters( 'wpsp_term_separator', ', ' ) )
			); 
	
	return $output;
},15,2);

Let us know how it goes.

Can you check if the filter has been used before within the site on any of its code snippets?

That filter, if already been used before, may be messing things up.

Let us know.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by Elvin.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by Elvin.

I code my snippets straight to my child theme’s functions.php. Even if I remove all other snippets (they are not a lot) this code still created the error. In fact, it also throws a critical error on the page’s backend where the shortcode is present as well.

You sure, you are sending me the right code?

I test on my sandbox site before posting and it works.

Can you check if there are multiple usages of the same filter?

Normally, we don’t need to use this on any CPT as it should be working as it is. But it can get messed up if the filter is already in use prior to me suggesting it. 😀

Say, for example, you’ve used the same filter to display only the tag on one of the WPSP lists –

add_filter( 'wpsp_terms_output', function( $output ){ 
	$output = sprintf( '<span class="wp-show-posts-terms wp-show-posts-meta">%1$s</span>',
				get_the_term_list( get_the_ID(), 'post_tag', '', apply_filters( 'wpsp_term_separator', ', ' ) )
			); 
	
	return $output;
});

This can be an issue because this applies to all WPSP lists.

While this will work for WPSP lists of default post query with posts that have tags, it won’t display any terms on WPSP lists with CPT query without any post tags.

Can you check if this is the case?

We can help you check things out in the backend if want. You can send the details through our official contact page – https://wpshowposts.com/contact/

Let us know. 😀

Do you also include this code in your example?
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/generate-footer-meta-post-types/

From the GP documentation, this needs to be there as well, it shouldn’t display meta for custom post types without it.

That won’t be needed. WPSP is independent from GP Premium settings.

That particular code is so the GP premium customizer settings apply on CPTs as well.

WPSP doesn’t need that as it’s query is pretty straightforward. It gets the post and taxonomy (get_the_term_list) from the WPSP settings on the Post tab and displays whatever it gets.

It’s basically what you see here – https://developer.ww.wp.xz.cn/reference/classes/wp_query/#taxonomy-parameters – in UI.

Glad you got it sorted now. No problem. 😀