Linsey Perry

Hi there,

I saw the email update for another comment which doesn’t seem to be showing in the thread above. You mentioned there that my approach wasn’t possible, but as it was working up until recently with the free version of ACF, I’m unsure on why this functionality has dropped off.

Linsey

Sorry, I’m not sure what you mean?

I have built a custom template to display my downloads, and would like the ‘[SHORTCODE FOR CUSTOM FIELD]’ to be replaced with something that will display a custom field created using Pods.

I hope this makes sense. Please let me know if this is possible.

Thanks
Linsey

Thanks,

Sorry if I wasn’t clear… I’m looking for the specific shortcode to use in the template itself.

e.g. ‘[SHORTCODE FOR CUSTOM FIELD HERE]’ in the below

<div class=”on-page-download”>
<p>[featured_image]</p>
<h4>[title]</h4>
<p>[SHORTCODE FOR CUSTOM FIELD HERE]</p>

Thanks
Linsey

Thanks, that works.

Hi Nayeem,

Because I already have my custom taxonomies set up to work for other purposes, I haven’t tried that yet, but I will take a look into it.

Thanks for the help!
Linsey

Hi Nayeem,

As an update, it looks like the shortcode is not recognising the custom taxonomy slugs in “id” — when I tested replacing the categories with just the custom taxonomy slugs, no packages are displayed.

e.g
[wpdm_category id="tax1,tax2" template="templateid" order_by="title" order="asc" cols=3 colspad=2 colsphone=1 download_link=1]

Is there another parameter that can be added to further filter the packages? Or is there an alternative shortcode that will work?

Thanks
Linsey

Hi Nayeem,

I do have a longer string with various parameters added, but I was trying to simplify the problem I’m trying to fix.

[wpdm_category id="cat1,cat2,cat3" template="templateid" order_by="title" order="asc" cols=3 colspad=2 colsphone=1 download_link=1]

The above obviously shows me all all of the packages that fit into cat1, cat2 and cat3.

I need to additional filtering that only shows the packages from the above that also include tax1.

Is this possible?

Thanks
Linsey

• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by Linsey Perry.

I did see that link, but it doesn’t seem to cover what I need. Apologies, I should have been more clear…

To illustrate I have the following categories…

cat1
cat2
cat3
cat4

And the following custom taxonomy terms…

tax1
tax2
tax3
tax4

I need to be able to show any of the downloads in cat1, cat2 OR cat4 (not cat3) that have tax1 (not tax2, tax 3 or tax 4).

So the commas and plus symbol in one doesn’t seem work as it needs to filter any of those categories with just one of the custom taxonomies.

Side note: I need to be able to repeat this for various combinations of the categories and custom taxonomy slugs.

Hope that helps.

Cheers
Linsey

Hi there,

I’ve managed to fix this by changing from [thumb_WxH] to use [preview].

<div class="knowledge-base-download"><a href="[download_url]"><img src="[preview]"></a>
<br style="clear:both"><b><a href="[download_url]" class="knowledge-base-download-heading" style="text-decoration: none;">[title]</a></b></br></div>

Seems to be working OK so far…

Cheers!
Linsey

Hi there,

FYI, I’ve managed to fix this. It looks like I wasn’t closing off the links in my template… d’oh! A couple of s later and all is working.

Thanks
Linsey

Hi Nayeem,

I’m not able to switch the theme off on my live site, no. There are a handful of plugins I’m able to turn off temporarily but they are functional for the website to work as required.

Do you have an idea which of the plugins would be likely to conflict with WPDM?

It seems very odd that the WPDM templates can’t locate the featured images on Downloads in WPDM?

Is there anything that I can adjust in the template? Perhaps a different shortcode?

Thanks
Linsey