custom post type

Template plugin for custom post type with sidebar

June 19, 2018 By David Wang Leave a Comment

I often want to create a custom post type with an accompanying sidebar. For example, a Lessons sidebar that only displays on Lessons and Programs (a related taxonomy). Here is a simple plugin that does just that, or provides a basis for customization. You can also copy the code into your functions.php file directly.

View plugin code, or download plugin.

A couple of points to note:

The plugin some Genesis features to the Lessons post type. Comment out the features you don’t need, or simply delete this block:

add_action( 'genesis_init', 'child_lessons_theme_supports' );
/*
 * Add theme supports to Lessons
 */
function child_lessons_theme_supports() {
	add_post_type_support( 'lesson', array(
		'genesis-cpt-archives-settings',  // Archive settings
		'genesis-layouts',    // In-post layout settings
		'genesis-seo',        // In-post SEO settings
		'genesis-scripts',    // In-post script options
	) );
}

The plugin also removes the post meta and post info by default. If you want these, delete this block of code:

add_action( 'genesis_before', 'child_remove_lesson_meta', 11 );
/*
 * Remove post info and meta for Lessons
 */
function child_remove_lesson_meta() {
	// Remove post info
	remove_post_type_support( 'lesson', 'genesis-entry-meta-before-content' );
	// Remove post meta
	remove_post_type_support( 'lesson', 'genesis-entry-meta-after-content' );
}

Hope you find it useful 🙂

Enable Genesis Layout and SEO settings for custom post types

October 29, 2015 By David Wang Leave a Comment

If you have a custom post type and want to enable the Genesis Layout and SEO settings on the Add New / Edit screens for it, use this snippet:

 
add_post_type_support( 'post_type_id', // e.g. product or portfolio 
	array( 
		'genesis-layouts', 
		'genesis-seo' 
	) 
);

Or, you can also declare support for these features when registering a custom post type (hat tip to Chuck Smith in the comments).

 
add_action( 'init', 'codex_book_init' );
/**
* Register a book post type.
*
* @link http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type
*/
function codex_book_init() {

	$labels = array(
	...
	);
	
	$args = array(
	'labels' => $labels,
	'description' => __( 'Description.', 'your-plugin-textdomain' ),
	'supports' => array( 
		'title', 
		'editor', 
		'comments', 
		'genesis-seo',
		'genesis-layouts',
		'genesis-simple-sidebars',
		'genesis-cpt-archives-settings' 
		),
	);
	register_post_type( 'book', $args );

}

Display a custom sidebar on a custom post type

December 28, 2012 By David Wang

Here’s how to replace the primary sidebar on a custom post type. First, register your sidebar. Next, use this code to swap the primary sidebar with the new one you just registered:

// Swap sidebars on CPT pages
add_action('get_header','child_change_genesis_sidebar');
function child_change_genesis_sidebar() {
	if ( is_singular('post_type')) { // change 'post_type' to your CPT slug
		remove_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'genesis_do_sidebar' ); //remove the default genesis sidebar
		add_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'child_do_cpt_sidebar' ); //add an action hook to call the function for my custom sidebar
	}
}
 
// Output sidebar with the id 'sidebar-custom'
function child_do_cpt_sidebar() {
	genesis_widget_area( 'sidebar-custom' );
}

If you want to display the sidebar on both the single post page and archive page for your custom post type, modify the if statement in child_change_genesis_sidebar() function to include

if ( is_singular('post_type') || is_post_type_archive('post_type') ) {

Credit: Carrie Dils & Travis Smith from How to Use a Custom Sidebar on a Custom Post Type

Remove Genesis layout settings for a Custom Post Type

July 29, 2012 By David Wang

If you’ve forced a layout for a custom post type, there’s no need to display the Layout Settings metabox in the edit screen. Here’s a code snippet that removes the layout options for a product custom post type.

/** Remove Genesis inpost layouts from 'product' post_type */
add_action( 'init', 'child_remove_post_type_support' );
function child_remove_post_type_support() {
	remove_post_type_support( 'product', 'genesis-layouts' );
}

Replace product with the custom post type you want this to work for.

Credit: Ade Walker, gleaned from his article How to use Genesis Connect for WooCommerce.

Want to remove the default layout metabox in the Genesis Theme Settings page instead? Use this snippet: Remove unused theme settings metaboxes