Visual Composer – Post Grid problem

Ok! What would be a solution to this problem? Because I need CPT UI posts to be shown in VC and all other plugins where you can specify category to display posts.

Thank you for your time!

I don’t have a solution for this, and the solutions are going to have to come from these plugins themselves, as they’re the ones who are trying to utilize available post types.

This is going to be the case for any plugin/theme the registers their own post types, not something exclusive to CPTUI.

They’re going to have to accommodate and make it possible to specify multiple post types to query for, and in cases where taxonomy terms are involved, also make sure it’s querying for the appropriate term ID for the terms associated with each post type.

Until then, best I can suggest for you would be multiple grids/timelines, one for each post type, unless you want to dig into their code and check for possible WP filters to tap into.

FYI, I have the same problem, more or less, with the Types plugin from OnTheGoSystems and with Visual Composer. VC used to show the custom type(s) define in Types in the Post Grid source dropdown, but no longer does. As you say, VC folks sent me to the Types people, who offered a suggestion to increase the init priority. I had the same results as you.

I think this is a VC bug.

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Kheira13, that sounds like an issue related to post content and not something that’s going to stem from CPTUI itself. Not something I’m going to be able to help with, I’m afraid.

Had the same problem, and finally fixed it with this code in my child theme functions file:

add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'easj_remove_parent_theme_stuff', 0 );

function easj_remove_parent_theme_stuff() {
	remove_action( 'init', 'cptui_create_custom_post_types', 10 );
}

add_action( 'init', 'cptui_create_custom_post_types', 1 );

Yep, nature of the beast…a damn high priority to have it work with Visual Composer.

Hi Michael

I am facing few problems with VC post grid and also with grid builder. First, I am trying to make a custom grid through grid builder, after doing everything alright when I try to see the preview it is not showing me hover over effects.

Secondly, when I have selected the grid element template through post grid settings (Item design), It is not showing any hover over effects and other effects of selected template on the posts.

This is how it looks https://www.zaza.tychomarketing.com/blog/

Pls help.

Thanks

param9755, those are issues you’re going to want to bring up with Visual Composer support, to be honest. As long as the post types were available as a setting for these spots, then CPTUI’s job was complete at the time of use. We have nothing in CPTUI that should be interfering with these details otherwise.

Hey Michael et al., I figured out a potential time-saver for anyone like me who’s trying to make CPTUI and VC play nice. I hope this is an ok place to post this tip (since many of the older support threads on this topic are closed).

This answer works, as of WP 4.5.3 and VC 4.10 (bundled with Salient 7. Haven’t tested on other VC versions).

BUT

There’s an important caveat that took me all day to figure out.

In your CPTUI settings, Public must be set to TRUE.

If you set Public to FALSE, no amount of priority-shuffling will make your CPT show up in VC’s Post types list.

Hope that helps.

Valid detail is valid. Thanks for the pointer TJ