Conditional output based on post relationships
When you have post types connected through a relationship you can set up conditional output based on the values coming from related posts. You can use this in Views, Content Templates, and WordPress Archives. This allows you to create conditionals based on values that come from posts other than the currently displayed one. To display […]
Display index numbers for posts listed with Views
When listing posts with Toolset Views, you can display index numbers for listed items. This is especially handy when displaying your list of posts as a table. If your list is split across several pages you can start index of items from scratch at each page or have continuous indexing across all pages. When you […]
How to create a WordPress thumbnail slider in minutes
A WordPress thumbnail slider is a great way to display your content in a dynamic, animated way to attract users to your website. A thumbnail slider contains a series of images on a slider which you can click through to view. Below is a set of thumbnails of all of the available images. If you […]
Filtering Views Query by Sticky Posts
You can filter Views Queries by whether posts are sticky or not. Standard WordPress posts can be marked as sticky, meaning they are shown before other posts on the posts archive (or a blog) page. You can add a Query Filter to a View which makes the standard WordPress loop to return only sticky posts, […]
Filtering Views Query by Post Parent
You can filter Views Queries of hierarchical post types by Post Parent. WordPress has an inbuilt post hierarchy concept which allows you to set individual posts as parents of other posts of the same type. The native pages post type is an example of this, and when you register new post type with Types you […]
Allowing visitors to sort the front-end results
Toolset allows you to add front-end sorting controls to any View or WordPress Archive. This allows your site’s visitors to sort the results based on a variety of options, besides the default order setting. How to Enable front-end sorting Sorting controls need to be inserted in the Search and Pagination, similarly to custom search filters, […]
Adding lists of contents
Adding a View to a layout allows you to list any type of contents and also users. You can add pagination with AJAX loading and even add elaborate custom searches to your designs. You can use all of the Views features right from the Layouts drag-and-drop editor. To add Views to your layouts, you simply […]
Using Views Grids inside pages created with Layouts
Any page builder allows you to create grids and insert text and images within the grids. Layouts and Views plugins allow you to create dynamically generated grids that display content from posts. In this tutorial, we demonstrate the use of the View cell in a layout to display responsive content-driven grids. Posts that we want […]
Advanced Settings for Custom Search
When you setup a custom search, you normally would use one of the pre-defined setting modes. This page explains your options when selecting Let me choose individual settings manually in for Custom Search Settings. Limiting Filter Inputs According to Available Results By default, the custom search View will automatically limit filter results according to the […]
Theme Support for Content Templates
Content Templates modify the content when called from the WordPress’ built-in the_content function. Some themes do not use the_content function, but define their own function. In this case, Content Templates are not applied to selected posts on the front-end. To solve this, you can enter the name of the function your theme uses on the Toolset->Settings […]