Tag in cool cloud finds nothing

  • Resolved Dave

    (@dnuttall)


    5 years, 9 months ago

    While experimenting with CTC, I must have done something to mess it up.

    I click on a CTC tag in the sidebar widget, but it always results in a “nothing found” page.

    I completely removed CTC and then reinstalled, but still the same result.

    I’ve tried several themes and the same result, so it would SEEM to be something in the database, but it’s not clear to me where to look or what to look for.

    Tips/ideas will be greatly appreciated!
    Dave

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  • Plugin Author WPKube

    (@wpkube)

    Hi Dave,

    The plugin does not make any changes to the tags system, it just uses a WordPress function to display them. So I’m not quite sure what could have happened to break the tags functionality.

    Can you try going to WP admin > Settings > Permalinks and save ( don’t make changes ). That makes WordPress refresh the permalinks and the htaccess file.

    Thread Starter Dave

    (@dnuttall)

    I’m pretty sure the issue for me is that almost all of the tags are linked to custom post types.

    If the value in the wp_posts:post_type field is “post”, the tag finds and lists as expected. If the value is = to one of my custom post types, it fails.

    In this case, I have a custom post type that is slugged: “external” vs. “post”.

    I tried adding “external” on line 65 after “page” and “post”, but didn’t make any difference.

    Hopeful, but stymied!

    Plugin Author WPKube

    (@wpkube)

    Hi,

    Give this a check, I think it’s related https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/how-to-display-exclusively-custom-post-type-associated-tags/

    Thread Starter Dave

    (@dnuttall)

    It’s the same problem, just two threads.

    Plugin Author WPKube

    (@wpkube)

    Yeah, there’s some solutions mentioned in there, for making it work on custom post types and for custom taxonomies. Try them out, if it works out we’ll add some filters in there so then you can just add a few lines of code in your theme instead of making the changes directly to the plugin code ( would overwrite on update ).

    Thread Starter Dave

    (@dnuttall)

    So back to basics and problem is RESOLVED by using suggested code from the “CPTUI” plugin support pages:

    Code to add to theme FUNCTIONS.PHP

    It works with either the default WP tag cloud widget or Cool Cloud.

    I’m inclined to stay with the default WP widget because you can have more than one instance which allows me to have a cloud for posts/pages/custom-posts and a separate cloud for Yannick’s “Link Library” plugin’s tags.

    THANKS.
    Dave

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