Hoping someone can help me with this, what I would like to do is keep my WordPress page name/title as it is but then create a custom field called for example "Printable Title"
Then have my page print this on the actual page template for the heading instead of the standard page title which will be used elsewhere.
Is this achievable with toolset?
I am thinking (without editing the theme files as I am using a theme that updates) I need to write some kind of function for functions.php to achieve this?
Right OK I don't really want to modify the theme files.
What I am thinking now is look at this the opposite way round.
So modifying the title in wordpress this is then output on the page itself = fine.
Then having a custom field for the alternate page title, this one is actually only printed within toolset content templates, so this is where toolset might be able to help.
To explain further we have a custom taxonomy let's call them A, B, C for this example. I now set the title for A to 1 instead so it prints 1 on the heading of the page. However, on the content template where the custom taxonomy for a post displays instead of it printing 1 if it belongs to the custom taxonomy it prints the custom field as A instead. I still want it to link to the page though (1).
The example with letters and numbers is a bit abstract and the way you describe it I don't know if A is a term of the custom taxonomy or a post that has the term 1 assigned to it or... whatever.
Perhaps you could use real examples.
Please make it clear where you are talking about displaying what, e.g. displaying single posts of a particular type and outputting the name of a taxonomy term on that post, or displaying a taxonomy archive (i.e. at site.com/colour/red/ display all posts that have the term red of the colour taxonomy assigned) etc.
Haha yeah I tried to make it simpler but I think I made it more complicated lol.
Ok so the taxonomy is called "country".
Right now some examples are Canada, USA, UK etc of taxonomy names.
What I wanted to do is change these so I might change USA to America, but I still want it to be called USA in content templates. Just the heading of the page says America.
So I have made a new custom field called "Pretty Name" (pretty-name) put USA in here and then was thinking I rename the actual page/taxonomy to America.
However I want to display the pretty name on the content template but this doesn't actually seem to show up when I go to insert a custom field?
Also another issue is how to show multiple if the post belongs to multiple countries. I want to link the country name to the page URL as well.
I'm sort of following you, that you are using a taxonomy where you want to be able to output a display name for the term (e.g. "America") instead of the term name itself (e.g. "USA").
But what I'm not sure about from your description is which you want to display when.
To recap, WordPress can display:
- static pages, e.g. the "Sample Page" on a new installation. Taxonomies don't really apply here, unless you insert a View that displays posts (with the taxonomy), or a View that displays taxonomy terms;
- single posts, e.g. a custom post, which may have the taxonomy assigned. The title displayed is the title of the post, but you may want to output the name of taxonomy terms assigned to the post;
- post archives, i.e. a listing of posts (of which the blog is a special case), where again you may want to display the name of assigned taxonomy terms alongside the post title and summary
- taxonomy archives, which are still listings of posts, but only those posts with a particular taxonomy term assigned, determined by the special URL (e.g. site.com/country/canada), where the page itself would normally have as a title the term name, and where you might, optionally, want to repeat that term name against the individual posts listed on that page
Can you clarify from the above in which places it is you want to output the taxonomy but display a display name instead of the actual taxonomy term name?
Yes of course. So its on a single post (it is in fact a custom post type).
It has the taxonomy country assigned to it.
On the actual taxonomy archive page I want to show the normal default title of the page here (I think its best to show the normal one here).
Then on the actual single post (which is a custom post type) I want to display the taxonomies under countries it belongs to. However instead of printing on the page the default titles for these I want to use the custom field "Pretty Name" for each one.
Fantastic that makes sense. I have set that up and it works - one small issue I am having though is in the content I want to list them comma separated (like they were originally).
I have coded the loop like the following:
<wpv-loop wrap="4" pad="true">
[wpv-item index=1]
[wpv-post-body view_template="Loop item in Country tax view"]
[wpv-item index=other], [wpv-post-body view_template="Loop item in Country tax view"]
[wpv-item index=4], [wpv-post-body view_template="Loop item in Country tax view"]
[wpv-item index=pad]
[wpv-item index=pad-last]
</wpv-loop>
But its displaying them like this:
USA , France , Germany
As opposed to:
USA, France, Germany
Its adding a space before each comma. Is there a better way for me to code this loop?
You don't really need to use an inline Content Template for this, you can add the shortcode for the taxonomy field directly into the Loop Output editor.
I tried outputting just the taxonomy field (the pretty name) for the first loop item, then ", pretty-name" for subsequent iterations, and removed all unnecessary whitespace, so that my Loop Output section looked like this:
That solved my comma issue but one thing I noticed actually when switching from a field insert to the view insert is its adding some formatting causing it to go on a new line when I don't want it to. How can I avoid this? As there isn't any formatting in the view itself.
Coming soon to Views is a raw output mode, but in the meantime all Views output content within a wrapper div.
Divs are block-level elements, i.e. start a new line.
Use your browser dev tools to inspect the source to determine a selector you can use to target this div, and change its display type to inline-block, which means it won't start a new line.
