[Plugin: Featured Articles Lite] choose custom post type

Hey!!! Nice work. This is exactly what I was looking for. I couldn’t find a way to post images into a slider from using the Custom Post Types UI.

This worked great. Thanks so much for this contribution.

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Nicely Done.

Hot! You just made one of my favorite plug-ins even better, just what I needed tonight to meet a new demand. Many, many thanks! Gotta love super clear directions ??

Since this sort of coding is a stretch for me , any ideas on how to get it to recognize a custom taxonomy structure for a CPT as well?

Hi there, GREAT way of adding custom posts type support to this great plugin.
In my case I couldn’t find the <td><input type=”text” name=”allowed_tags”… (maybe the plugin is updated already and it’s different now.

So the thing is that I’m getting the custom post types listed on it’s settings but after setting my custom post type, the regular posts are still shown on the page.

Any ideas of where the problem could be?

Thanks!!

Thanks A Lot… !!!!!
This works for me… Saved my 1 day….

@jpisanu If you are using this plugin new version this trick not work….

Replace this whole function.

function FA_get_content( $slider_id ){
	$options = FA_slider_options( $slider_id, '_fa_lite_content' );

	$args = array();
	$args['post_type'] = $options['post_type'];
	$args['numberposts'] = $options['num_articles'];
	$args['order'] = 'DESC';

	if( $options['displayed_content'] == 2 ){
		if( isset($options['display_pages'][0]) )
			$args['include'] = implode(',', $options['display_pages']);
	}else{
		if( isset($options['display_from_category'][0]) )
			$args['category'] = implode(',',$options['display_from_category']);
	}

	/* get posts depending on what order was chosen ( by date, by comment count or by meta key ) */
	switch ( $options['display_order'] ){
		case 1: default:
			$args['orderby'] = 'post_date';
		break;
		case 2:
			$args['meta_query'] = array(array(
				'key'=>'_fa_featured',
				'value'=>'"'.$slider_id.'"',
				'compare'=>'LIKE'
			));
			$args['orderby'] = 'post_date';
			//$args['meta_key'] = '_fa_featured';
			//$args['meta_value'] = 1;
		break;
		case 3:
			$args['orderby'] = 'comment_count post_date';
		break;
		case 4:
			$args['orderby'] = 'rand';
		break;
	}	

	if( $options['displayed_content'] == 1 ){
		$postslist = get_posts($args);
	}else{
		$args['sort_order'] = $options['display_order'] == 4 ? 'RAND()' : 'DESC';
		if( $options['display_order'] == 3 ){
			$args['sort_column'] = 'comment_count DESC, post_date';
		}else if( $options['display_order'] == 4 ){
			$args['sort_column'] = '';
		}else{
			$args['sort_column'] = $args['orderby'];
		}
		$postslist = get_pages($args);
	}
	// remove captions and unwanted HTML tags
	$aspect_opt = FA_slider_options( $slider_id, '_fa_lite_aspect' );
	foreach($postslist as $k=>$v){
		$content = $v->post_content;
		// remove shortcodes from content
	    $string = strip_shortcodes( $content );
	    // remove all HTML tags except links
	    $string = strip_tags($string,$aspect_opt['allowed_tags']);
	    //store the slider stripped text into a different variable
		$postslist[$k]->FA_post_content = $string;
	}

	return $postslist;
}

@ajay – which function would i have to replace to get it working with the new version?

i cannot understand why the developer would omit such a crucial piece…

It’s not omitted it just isn’t a Lite feature. PRO version of the plugin has custom posts and taxonomies capabilities.
The above modification should be done in file includes/common.php.