Custom Post type and Visual Composer grid block

I loathe Visual Composer because they require custom post types to have such a high priority. Last I checked, CPTUI is doing post types on priority 9, and taxonomies on 10, with 10 being the default priority for ALL hooks in WordPress.

I have never managed to get priorities able to be set via a filter, so I have no great way to get this customized for those who need it because of Visual Composer’s needs. The only way I know of that could handle it is editing our plugin yourself, and that’s going to need to be re-done any time an update comes out.

That said, they’re reversed in their logic. 1 is NOT a low priority here. 1 is utmost TOP priority. The lower the number, the higher the priority with hooks. 99 is a low priority.

Michael. I just started using your fine plugin and ultra disappointed myself that VC is not available. You may not like it but it has made my web design experience quite fulfilling. I do understand your answer but I would appreciate it if you could figure out a work around. Thanks for the nice plugin.

Mark

So I tend to overthink things at times, and forgot it is possible to remove callbacks.

Try this in your theme’s functions.php file

remove_action( 'init', 'cptui_create_custom_post_types', 10 );
add_action( 'init', 'cptui_create_custom_post_types', 42 );

Change the “42” value to whatever priority Visual Composer suggests, and let me know if that takes care of the issue, please.

You know more than i do about this stuff and I appreciate your thoughts and time. Will stick it in my child theme and will report back in a few days. Thanks again!

Mark, Miami, FL

Hello Michael. Sorry for all the trouble. I just made an error. I wanted to see the VC editor along with my custom post creation. I just had to go in and tick the box under VC settings and than the VC editor showed up in the add new custom post. I have not tried the grid element part though. Here is what WP Bakery says:
The issue that plugin author is referring to is allowing the added post type into the grid elements which can be done by changing the priority to 1.

Thanks for a great plugin!
Mark

For anyone following along, a priority of 1 on an action/filter hook is extremely high, and not low like I am perceiving the Visual Composer people to believe.

Hey Michael,

How Mark resolved his problem didn’t work for me.
I already have it checked and i tried to past
`remove_action( ‘init’, ‘cptui_create_custom_post_types’, 10 );
add_action( ‘init’, ‘cptui_create_custom_post_types’, 42 );`
in the theme functions but that didn’t work no matter what priority i gave it.

Do you have any idea how to do it?

If i make a new post type with out the plugin it does work. But then i get another problem that is difficult to resolve

please help

regards Marc

Nope. I don’t have any solution to get around VC’s stuff, and I don’t have a copy of it available.

I have just sorted this problem using the information above and guidance from the VC people.

I added the following to my child theme functions.php:

<?php
# Empty functions.php file for your childtheme
# The parents functions.php contents will be loaded.
# Add any additional or overwriting functions here.

remove_action( ‘init’, ‘cptui_create_custom_post_types’, 10 );
add_action( ‘init’, ‘cptui_create_custom_post_types’, 1 );

The cpt I need appears in the vc media grid and I can also choose the categories associated with it.

Thanks for your help on this Michael and great plugin, keep up the top work.

It will forever irk me that they need the priority that high.

Concept to implement lite grid composer to WordPress
https://github.com/dadmor/Results/wiki/WP-Results-grid-concept

Hi,

I like your pluging but I am all day trying ??

I crated music, movie etc custom post type. i can see on visual composer such as music. But dont show so you mean that its not working with Visual composer.

If i create normal post category and if i use just taxonomy label, will it work? Such as post category music, taxonomy label music type (pop or latin)

Thanks

I don’t know anything about debugging to get post types and taxonomies to work in Visual Composer. That’s up to their support to handle, to be honest. I don’t have any copy of Visual Composer available to test anything in either. I would recommend talking to them.

I had the same issue with the CPT-onomies WordPress plugin….
The code above mentioned by @michael Beckwith has worked for me but with a slight change for CPT-onomies plugin..

The code I used is given below

#Open cpt-onomies/manager.php through your WordPress dashboard (Plugins > Editor > cpt-onomies/manager.php )

now search for below lines

// register custom post types and taxonomies
		add_action( 'init', array( &$this, 'register_custom_post_types_and_taxonomies' ), 100 );

change last parameter 100 to 1 in the above code and then save the file.

now you can also see your custom post types categories in all the VC blocks that you want to use in your pages and posts

Hope this helps for people who use CTP-onomies and VC plugins together

I would advise against editing their plugin, if at all possible, because you’ll lose the edit the next time they update their plugin.

If you can un-register and then re-register the same method on a higher priority in a place that won’t be overwritten by updates, that’d be the best route to go.

That said, it is good to know there are ways to get things playing in harmony.