How can I integrate some custom fields info in a post as a box?

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This topic contains 3 replies, has 2 voices.

Last updated by Martin 7 years, 3 months ago.

Assisted by: Luo Yang.

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August 14, 2017 at 5:11 pm #559638

Martin

Hi,

can anyone give me a hint how I can integrate a box with the data of some custom post fields to a post? What I want to achieve is:

I want to have posts with reviews on books. I added a few custom post fields with the most important data about a book (like cover image, isbn, price and publishing company).

Now I want to display this info in a nicely designed info box in the post, best after the second paragraph. How can this be achieved? Can I use something like a shortcode in the post to define where the information box should be included? Any other options?

Thanks,
Martin

August 15, 2017 at 7:04 am #559834

Luo Yang

Dear Martin,

I suggest you setup the location of "info box" manually, for example:
1) Create a content template, for example "info-box-content", display those content:
like cover image, isbn, price and publishing company

2) Edit the post, find the location you want, put the content template shortcode into the post content, for example:
[wpv-post-body view_template="info-box-content"]

More help:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#wpv-post-body
Outputs the content of the current post or renders a content template

August 15, 2017 at 1:59 pm #559966

Martin

Great, this are the hints I was looking for - and super how Toolset works! One question: I have created a view template like you wrote, saw once the right result.

Then I added some html to the view (and stripped it again as the following happened) - but now: the post body text does not show up anymore as long as I have the line

[wpv-post-body view_template="CB TPL Buchdetails"]

in it.

Any idea about that?

Martin

August 16, 2017 at 4:16 am #560183

Luo Yang

Please check these:
Edit the content template "CB TPL Buchdetails", make sure you did not put the shortocde in it:
[wpv-post-body view_template="none"]

If there is, please remove it and test again, it will conduct a infinite loop problem.

If there isn't, please try this:
deactivate other plugins and switch to wordpress default theme, and test again

If the problem still persists, please provide a database dump file(ZIP file) of your website in below private detail box, also point out the problem page URL, view URL, content template URL, where and how I can see the problem:
the post body text does not show up anymore as long as I have the line

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