Custom Post Type as Featured content

  • I’m working on a filter to pull in pages and custom post types as replacement for posts for the featured content.

    I’ve hit a little blocker in terms of the CPT tag taxonomy – the custom taxonomy will not work unless it is of the post_tag type.

    My question is, is there anyway to override the set post_tag and use any custom registered taxonomy? I can setup a dropdown select option for all available types but as mentioned only the post_tag will work.

    Appreciate any help anyone can give on this.

    Zulf

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  • Thread Starter Brian Harris

    (@zgani)

    Resolved this by way of a 3rd party plugin: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/taxonomy-tools/ – it simply re-maps the custom taxonomies to post_tag.

    It would be helpful if you could explain how you did it, I am also looking for a way to show pages as featured content.
    Thank you!

    Thread Starter Brian Harris

    (@zgani)

    I’m actually working this option in to the Fourteen Extended plugin and it will be available soon for all Twenty Fourteen users.

    The basics are…

    1: Enable tags for pages via a function – something like

    if( ! function_exists('fourteenxt_register_taxonomy') ){

    function fourteenxt_register_taxonomy() {
        register_taxonomy_for_object_type('post_tag', 'page');
    }
    add_action('admin_init', 'fourteenxt_register_taxonomy');
}

    Then I set up options in the Customizer to set the number of posts, the content type i.e posts, pages or custom post type via $post_types = get_post_types(); – the values are then passed to a twentyfourteen_get_featured_posts filter via a function callback.

    2: The rest of the code is a bit long and involved to paste here – you can grab the Beta version of the plugin here: Fourteen Extended Beta and have a look at the code. You can either use the plugin or pull out what you need and use it ??

    If you are going to incorporate the code in to a child theme then take a look at how I’ve done it in Ridizain: https://www.ads-software.com/themes/ridizain/developers/ – you’ll want to grab the version 1.0.19 for the code.

    3: Most custom post types don’t use the standard WordPress post_tag for their taxonomies – this is where the Taxonomy Tools plugin comes in handy.

    Once everything is set up you’ll be able to use pages or custom post types as featured content.

    EDIT: Not sure if its permissible to post the zip link in the thread – if Mods object please remove it ??

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