I want to let my random quote generator users choose which quote category they want to see a quote from when they automatically post the quote to their Facebook page. I want to show my quote categories, which are a custom taxonomy (quote_categories), on my custom post type (quote). Here is the code I use: […]
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I am writing a post about my quote generator and want to show the custom quote tag cloud in my post. I found that I could use the wp_tag_cloud() function to generate a tag cloud, but that would generate the regular tag cloud for all my WordPress posts. After a little more digging in the
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My archive page for my quote generator shows the post meta data for each quote. It clutters my listings. I’d rather it only show the quote title and the quote. I found this article which shows me how to delete the post meta from a single page for a custom post type which is close
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In order for me to choose how many quotes I want to display with my random quote generator, I need to be able to pass a variable to the shortcode I built in my last post. I may need 2 or 3 quotes instead of just one quote depending on where my shortcode is used.
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I’d like to show you how to choose a random quote from the quotes custom post type I showed you how to create in this post. In my last post, I showed you how to create a basic WordPress Shortcode. We must first query the database for the custom post type: I add that code
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In my last post, I showed you how I created a custom post type for my quote generator. I wanted to add a couple of custom fields to my custom post type. I wanted to add a custom field for the quote author which I will call ‘By’ and a custom field for the source
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I’m working on a random quote generator for one of my sites. I decided to create a custom post type called ‘quote’. I wanted to create a custom taxonomy for quote categories and another for quote tags since I want these categories and tags to be separate from the other categories and tags on the
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