I am trying to show the amount of posts each users on my WP site has posted.
Currently the code I have is:
<?php
$author_id = the_author_meta('ID');
echo count_user_posts('$author_id');
?>
As you can see I am storing the author ID in $author_id and running that in the count_user_posts() echo.
When I run the to strings separately it works however when, I combine them as above it doesn't.
Any ideas?
Regards,
You should use get_the_author_meta for this kind of purposes.
$author_id = get_the_author_meta('ID');
echo count_user_posts($author_id);
the_author_meta should be used only for echoing stuff.
Try to use it like this :
<?php
$author_id = the_author_meta('ID');
echo count_user_posts($author_id); // remove quotes
?>
Hope it works for you now.
I found you need to add your post, page or your_custom_post_type for it to work successfully.
<?php echo 'Posts made: ' .(count_user_posts(get_the_author_meta('ID'),'your_custom_post_type') ); ?>
// or multiple post types
<?php echo 'Posts made: ' . count_user_posts( get_the_author_meta('ID'),['job', 'featured_job', 'free_job'] ); ?>
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Is it possible to only show the code below if there's a category description?
<h2>About <?php $cat = get_the_category(); echo $cat[0]->cat_name; ?></h2>
<?php $catID = get_the_category(); echo category_description ( $catID[0] ); ?>
I have these codes on my single posts in Wordpress but sometimes, I forgot to add descriptions on a new category that I added. So when a user visits the post, they will just see the word About Category and no description at all, making it looks like an incomplete article.
I'm not a developer and I'm also not familiar with PHP. I only added that code on the single.php to show the description. But I want it not to show when there's no description available.
Hope someone can give me the exact code to make it work.
Thanks!
Good practice to assign your values into variables at the top of your script before entering into HTML whenever possible. This will help prevent you making redundant calls and to debug your code better. Once you have your assigned values, you'll want to check if the value is empty. I am assuming the code you presented will always return some kind of value for index 0.
<?php
$cat = get_the_category();
$cat_0 = $cat[0];
$cat_0_name = $cat_0->cat_name;
$cat_0_desc = category_description($cat_0);
?>
<?php if(!empty($cat_0_desc)): ?>
<h2>About <?php echo $cat_0_name; ?></h2>
<?php echo $cat_0_desc; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
I should like to point out that I am choosing to use an alternative syntax for control structures versus the traditional brace control. This will make your code more readable and easily debugged when mixed in with HTML.
If your code is still throwing you errors, I would suggest you check your error logs as something would be happining during the get_the_cateory() call or that it's not returning any values resulting in error with $cat[0].
<?php if ($cat = get_the_category() && count($cat)>0) { ?>
<!-- <?php echo print_r($cat,1); ?> -->
<h2>About <?php echo $cat[0]->cat_name;?></h2>
<?php echo category_description ($cat[0]->cat_id); ?>
<?php } ?>
I'm trying to do something that seems really simple but I can't figure it out.
In my category template, I have this shortcode:
<?php echo do_shortcode( '[jobs categories="manufacturing"]' ); ?>
I also have this to show the title of the category:
<?php single_cat_title(); ?>
I would like to put them both together so I can pass the category into the shortcode so it fetches the correct job category listings. So I created this:
<?php $category = single_cat_title(); ?>
<?php echo do_shortcode('[jobs categories=' . $category . ']'); ?>
but it doesn't seem to work properly - Am I doing something wrong? Is this even possible?
Many thanks!!
If you look at the documentation for the single_cat_title() function, you'll see that it can either display or return the value, and it accepts two parameters $prefix and $display with default values of '' and true respectively.
What this means, is that just using single_cat_title(); will print Category Title to the document.
If you want to use it as a variable (without printing it to the document), you'll need to set the second parameter to false:
$category = single_cat_title( '', false );
This will define the $category variable for you, without printing anything, and you can then pass it to your shortcode (also note, that typically you'll want quotes around your attribute values in shortcodes):
echo do_shortcode( '[jobs categories="' . $category . '"]' );
You can make it a bit more succinct as well:
<?php
$category = single_cat_title( '', false );
echo do_shortcode( "[jobs categories='$category']" );
?>
I want to use the shortcode below to add a review box to posts in my wordpress template:
<?php echo do_shortcode('[rwp-review id="X"]'); ?>
Where X is the Review ID of the review box for each post.
To get the Review ID, I have the code below but it is not working. $postid gets the current post ID. $box result returns array values for the review box one of which is the Review ID. If I echo $reviewid, I get the Review ID which can be 0, 1, 2, 3 and upwards.
I then tried to use $reviewid in the final shortcode but It is not working. I have very little PHP knowledge so I think I inserted the code the wrong way.
<?php
$postid = get_the_ID();
$box = RWP_API::get_post_reviews_boxes( $postid, false );
$reviewid = $box[0]['review_id'];
?>
<?php echo do_shortcode('[rwp-review id=". $reviewid . "]'); ?>
Can anyone suggest the best approach to this?
Try:
<?php echo do_shortcode('[rwp-review id="'. $reviewid . '"]'); ?>
or
<?php echo do_shortcode("[rwp-review id='{$reviewid}']"); ?>
I'm not very familiar with PHP and have been trying my hardest to figure out how to create this URL. So far, this is working:
<?php echo site_url($p->post_title) ?>
Where post title is defined by the Mapify.it Wordpress plugin. The result is:
http://siteurl.com/post_title
What I'd like to do is add a string before it, ideally ?s= or /search/, but when I try to add this before $p->post_title I'm still generating the above URL. Variations such as:
<?php echo site_url('?s=', $p->post_title) ?>
<?php echo site_url('/search/', $p->post_title) ?>
produce http://siteurl.com/?s= and ignore the variable. Nothing seems to do what I want.
What am I doing wrong?
Hope you need the following url format,
http://siteurl.com/?s=Here come the post title
So,
<?php echo site_url("?s=".$p->post_title) ?>
OR
<?php echo site_url("/search/".$p->post_title) ?>
should work.
Found it!
<?php echo site_url('?s='), $p->post_title ?>
Instead of adding custom URL Parameters directly, I'd suggest you to use WordPress built-in function add_query_arg(), it's more cleaner.
Here is an usage example:
$url = get_site_url();
$params = array(
's' => $p->post_title
);
echo add_query_arg($params, $url);
You can specify multiple parameters this way.
For ref: Check add_query_arg()
I'm currently using a wordpress function in order to display posts from a specific category. A simplified example is shown below:
<?php query('cat_name=cat1&posts=1') ?>
Essentially this gets 1 post from the category cat1.
However I have a variable saved which gets the current category (this is on category pages):
<?php $thiscat = get_the_category(); ?>
Current Category: <?php echo $thiscat ?>
How can I now echo the variable $thiscat into the arguments of my query above so that the category name is filled in for me? This function is applied on different category pages so having it automatically passed to the arguments of my query saves a lot of hassle.
Thanks in advance for any help.
You only echo something when you want to output it to the browser, here we concatenate the query string with the variable:
<?php $thiscat = get_the_category(); ?>
<?php query('cat_name=' . $thiscat . '&posts=1') ?>
Not sure I understand the question, but it sounds like you want to use $thiscat in your query. This should do it:
<?php
$thiscat = get_the_category();
query("cat_name=$thiscat&posts=1")
?>
Note the double quotes, which are necessary. If you use single quotes, the variable will not get expanded.