I am trying to:
I have several sidebar widgets that display related essays to the main displayed essay. All of these are slightly different, but I can't seem to create a new one. I have custom post types: Essays and Gatherings. Gatherings are a curated group of essays. In the main Essay posts I would like a sidebar widget that appears if the displayed essay appears in a gathering. So a heading that reads "other essays in [name of Gathering with link to Gathering page]" followed by a list of 3-5 essays in that Gathering.
I am doing something similar with Authors and Threads (like categories).
Link to a page where the issue can be seen:
essays: hidden link
gatherings: hidden link
I expected to see:
something like "other essays by author" and "other essays in thread"
Instead, I got:
empty widget
Hi Will,
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Regards,
Waqar
Hi Will,
Thank you for your permission and for waiting with us.
During troubleshooting, I noticed a few items that needed to be adjusted, in order to show the list of essays belonging to the same gathering.
1. In your view "get-related-gathering-essay-widget", "shortname" field was called in the loop item template. As this field is connected to essays and not gatherings, it won't return any value and I've commented it out.
Since here the loop is returning the gathering item(s), I've placed the heading in this loop item template, which works:
<h6 class="related-essays">other essays in [wpv-post-link]</h6>
Note: this heading was placed in the child view "display-gathering-related-essay-widget", where the loop contained information about essays and not gatherings, which is why no data was being returned. This way, you also don't need to call in a third view "Gathering Title", just for this title.
2. In your other view "display-gathering-related-essay-widget", the query filter was set to "thread_essay " relationship and not "essay_gathering" relationship.
I've updated that and the whole widget now works as expected on the single essay pages.
( e.g. hidden link )
I hope these findings will help! Please let us know if you need any further assistance.
regards,
Waqar
Thanks for your help. It is exactly what I wanted.
