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Problem: When I display a post with my Content Template applied, the post contents are not displayed. The page appears empty except for the main site header and footer and an "edit post link" I added to the Content Template.
Solution: Anything you want to display in the main post area should be added to the Content Template, since the post contents and other fields are not automatically displayed here. You can use a Single Field block to display the post contents with the dynamic sources feature.
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https://toolset.com/course-lesson/creating-templates-to-display-custom-posts/
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Last updated by 4 years, 6 months ago.
Assisted by: Christian Cox.
Hi Christian,
thanks a lot. I thought thats the reason. So I've tried it with the Standard field source - Current Course - Post Content (body) but the result you see here hidden link
In the Template the content is displayed correct - only the text. That's why I stopped it and asked.
I haven't tried it but body means also display all block an author has created if I give him the permission to use Gutenberg for Course creation?
Thanks,
Wolfgang
In the Template the content is displayed correct - only the text. That's why I stopped it and asked.
It is unusual to see the main site's header and footer repeated like this when a Content Template is used. What happens if you activate the parent theme instead of the child theme - is the header repeated? I suspect something unusual in your child theme's PHP template is responsible for this replication, but I could be wrong. I am attaching a screenshot here showing single-book.php, a basic single post PHP template file for a custom post type "Book". You can see that the template calls get_header() to render the main site header, and calls get_footer() to render the main site footer. It also sets up a standard loop using while( have_posts() ), then calls the_post() and the_content() inside that while loop. That's basically all you need in the template. Everything normally displayed by the_content() will be replaced with the Content Template I have applied to the Book custom post type.
My supsicion is that your PHP template handles things a bit differently, and that's why there are repeated elements like the header and footer. Can you zip up your single Course PHP template and post it to Dropbox or Drive? Include a download link in your next reply. All URLs you share in the forum are hidden from public view for your security. I will take a look and see if there are any obvious problems in the template.
I haven't tried it but body means also display all block an author has created if I give him the permission to use Gutenberg for Course creation?
In a standard custom post, any blocks inside the main post editor will be output by the Single Field block in the Content Template when you use Dynamic Sources to display the Post Content (Body). I'm not completely sure how that applies to custom posts created by the LearnDash system (like Courses) and the permissions associated with those posts, but I suspect that it works similarly.
Hi Christian,
thanks a lot for your time and your feedback. Sometimes a night of good sleep helps 🙂
I found a simple but very effective solution. I've took the shortcode and placed it in a text-widget in the sidebar. And voila, it works perfect. See pictures.
Thanks a lot. Should I resolve the threat?
Yours,
Wolfgang
