Categories not working

Hi jakzodiac,

I’m not sure why this isn’t working for you, to be honest this kind of thing is difficult to debug without being able to sit down on your computer myself ??

I’d recommend trying out the beta code for the new version, which has quite a few updates: https://github.com/ewels/cpt-bootstrap-carousel

I really must get around to releasing this soon. Let me know if it helps..

Phil

That one doesn’t seem to do it either. I have a dev site setup. If you wouldn’t mind emailing me I will send you the details. You can email me at [email protected].

That would be a huge help. Nothing looks wrong with the code. It actually makes perfect sense. No idea why the beta isn’t working though.

Resolved by e-mail.

Hi Phil Ewels,

We’re getting the same issue “I am having issues displaying different category sliders on different pages. It seems to always default to all of them.”

Page is here – https://hallsgb.com/fine-art/

I noticed you guys resolved it via email. Please can you take a look and let me know how to solve the issue? My email is [email protected]

Many thanks,
Andy

Hi Andy,

The poster above managed to resolve the issue himself in the end:

Resolved. It was the loop that generated the menu that was an issue. It was forcing the slider to use the very last page title as a category.

Does that help at all? I’m not able to replicate the problem, so there’s a good chance that it could be something to do with other WordPress loops elsewhere in your theme.. If you’re able to replicate the problem in another setting (eg. the Unite theme), let me know.

Phil

I managed to resolve this for @factorysketcher by updating line 43 in the file cptbc-frontend.php to this:

$args['tax_query'][] = array(
	"taxonomy" 	=> "carousel_category",
	"field"		=> "slug",
	"terms" 	=> $atts['category'],
	"operator"	=> "IN"
);

You’ll find it’s currently $args['carousel_category'] = $atts['category']; which apparently stopped working in WordPress version 3.9.2.

Hope that helps!

Hi @rigorousrich,

Thanks for this! Any ideas why the current code works in my testing environment then? I just had another look, it’s definitely still working for both shortcode attributes and settings page configuration. I’m using WordPress v4.2-alpha-31427..

Anyway, I’ve added it as an issue so that I remember to update to your code in a future release.

Phil

Hey Phil,
Honestly, I’ve no idea! Maybe it is actually specific to the 3.9.2 release? That would seem a little odd though; I don’t think many changes happen to that class these days…

Thanks for opening an issue; very kind of you! Totally see your point though; I’m sure I’ve got client sites using that code with no issues. Very strange.

Rich