Portfolio post types and Chaplin

Okay so I worked out how to make the custom post templates available for portfolio posts.

I edited the individual template files within the Chaplin theme. For example, for the Chaplin: Cover Template Page Template (template-cover.php), I added ‘portfolio’ to the list of post types at the top of the file:

/*
Template Name: Cover Template
Template Post Type: post, page, portfolio
*/

And repeated for the other post templates.

So that’s great, but I am still not sure how to add custom metadata for the portfolio posts. Is there a specific template part where I can do that?

Thanks in advance …

David

You really do not want to be editing the Chaplin theme, your changes will be lost when it is updated. This is the reason to do mods as a child theme.

I’m doing this for a project where I have one custom post type and three custom taxonomies. It takes some code lifting to do! I am not sure I can get everything in. If you look in functions.php you will find the meta data constructor function chaplin_get_post_meta. It looks like he has hooks in where you could add in a child theme functions.php functions to add post_meta data:

// Allow output of additional meta items to be added by child themes and plugins
do_action( 'chaplin_start_of_post_meta_list', $post_meta, $post_id );

I ended up copying the entire chaplin_get_post_meta function to my functions.php and changed it to be toolkit_get_post_meta, and from there I added my own extra code for doing my metadata, e,g,

// Module Taxonomy
if ( in_array( 'module', $post_meta ) && has_term( '', 'module', $post_id ) ) : 
	$has_meta = true;
	?>
	<li class="post-jetpack-portfolio-type meta-wrapper">
		<span class="meta-icon">
			<span class="screen-reader-text"><?php esc_html_e( 'Modules', 'chaplin' ); ?></span>
			<?php chaplin_the_theme_svg( 'bookmark' ); ?>
		</span>
		<span class="meta-text">
			<?php the_terms( $post_id, 'module', __( 'Module: ', 'chaplin' ) . ' ', ', ' ); ?>
		</span>
	</li>
	<?php
endif;

This means in my templates that I made a copy of content.php changed to content-tool.php for my CPT, and call me own metadata function from there

toolkit_the_post_meta( $post->ID, 'single-top' );

It took even more legwork to get the archives working… You might go with JetPack since there is built in support for that, but I loathe the JetPack stuff.

Hi @cogdog and thanks for your reply. I can see from your other post that you’ve been wrestling with similar issues!

You are right regarding the child theme, I actually went and created one shortly after writing my original post.

Thanks also for sharing your code for a custom post-meta function … I will give it a go and see if it works!

I agree re Jetpack, am trying everything possible to avoid using it. But I guess for others it might be a useful option.