What I'm trying to do is generate a new Custom Post Type called report, add a taxonomy, query the reports, and then generate a shortcode in the format of [report_listing category="general"] to display the reports in the category General.
Right now, on report/index.twig, I get a listing of all reports using the shortcode [report_listing], and the error No reports available when using [report_listing category="general"].
I am using Advanced Custom Fields, but that doesn't appear to be an issue with this or the rest of the site. The categories are being generated and associated with the posts, since this is a sample {{ dump }} output on /index.twig for one report when using [report_listing] and all reports are displayed:
["report_category"]=> array(1) { [0]=> object(Timber\Term)#2131 (15)
{ ["PostClass"]=> string(11) "Timber\Post" ["TermClass"]=> string(4) "Term"
["object_type"]=> string(4) "term" ["_children"]=> NULL ["name"]=> string(7)
"General" ["taxonomy"]=> string(15) "report_category" ["id"]=> int(89) ["ID"]=> int(89)
["term_id"]=> int(89) ["slug"]=> string(7) "general" ["term_group"]=> int(0)
["term_taxonomy_id"]=> int(89) ["parent"]=> int(0) ["count"]=> int(0) ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } }
I looked at ACF Querying custom post types with taxonomies , but I am using tax_query parameters. There are no php errors on the debug log.
The loop on index.twig:
{% if reports %}
{% for report in reports %}
(html)
{% endfor %}
{% else %}
No reports available.
{% endif %}
Full code in the plugin that generates the custom post type and generates the shortcode:
// Add a standard Custom Post Type called report
function add_report_post_type() {
register_post_type('report',
array(
'labels' => array(
'name' => __('Reports'),
'singular_name' => __('Report'),
'add_new' => __('Add New'),
'add_new_item' => __('Add Report'),
'edit' => __('Edit'),
'edit_item' => __('Edit Report'),
'new_item' => __('New Report'),
'view' => __('View Report'),
'view_item' => __('View Report'),
'search_items' => __('Search Reports'),
'not_found' => __('No reports found'),
'not_found_in_trash' => __('No reports found in Trash')
),
'public' => true,
'hierarchical' => true,
'has_archive' => false,
'supports' => array(
'title',
'revisions'
),
'can_export' => true,
'menu_position' => 5,
'menu_icon' => 'dashicons-clipboard',
'rewrite' => array(
'slug' => 'report',
'with_front' => false,
'hierarchical' => true
),
)
);
}
add_action('init', 'add_report_post_type');
// Add categories
function reports_taxonomy() {
$labels = array(
'name' => _x( 'Report Categories', 'Taxonomy General Name', 'text_domain' ),
'singular_name' => _x( 'Report Categories', 'Taxonomy Singular Name', 'text_domain' ),
'menu_name' => __( 'Categories', 'text_domain' ),
'all_items' => __( 'All Items', 'text_domain' ),
'parent_item' => __( 'Parent Item', 'text_domain' ),
'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Item:', 'text_domain' ),
'new_item_name' => __( 'New Item Name', 'text_domain' ),
'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Item', 'text_domain' ),
'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Item', 'text_domain' ),
'update_item' => __( 'Update Item', 'text_domain' ),
'view_item' => __( 'View Item', 'text_domain' ),
'separate_items_with_commas' => __( 'Separate items with commas', 'text_domain' ),
'add_or_remove_items' => __( 'Add or remove items', 'text_domain' ),
'choose_from_most_used' => __( 'Choose from the most used', 'text_domain' ),
'popular_items' => __( 'Popular Items', 'text_domain' ),
'search_items' => __( 'Search Items', 'text_domain' ),
'not_found' => __( 'Not Found', 'text_domain' ),
'no_terms' => __( 'No items', 'text_domain' ),
'items_list' => __( 'Items list', 'text_domain' ),
'items_list_navigation' => __( 'Items list navigation', 'text_domain' ),
);
}
function create_report_taxonomy () {
register_taxonomy(
'report_category', 'report',
array(
'hierarchical' => true,
'public' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'show_admin_column' => true,
'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
'show_tagcloud' => true,
'meta_box_cb' => false,
)
);
}
add_action( 'init', 'create_report_taxonomy', 2 );
// Query all reports and create shortcode
function report_get_listing($params) {
$reports = [];
$context = Timber::get_context();
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'report',
'orderby' => [
'weight' => 'ASC',
'post_date' => 'DESC'
],
'post_status' => 'publish',
'meta_query' => [
'weight' => [
'key' => 'weight',
'compare' => 'EXISTS',
'type' => 'NUMERIC'
],
],
);
// Check for a report category in the query
if (!empty($params['category'])) {
$args['tax_query'] = array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'report_category',
'terms' => explode(',', $params['category']),
'field' => 'slug',
'operator' => 'IN',
),
);
}
query_posts($args);
$report_listing = Timber::get_posts($args);
foreach ($report_listing as $p) {
$reports[] = get_single_report($p);
}
$context['reports'] = $reports;
return Timber::compile('report/index.twig', $context);
}
// Build all the reports for the shortcode
function get_single_report($post) {
$report = [
'id' => $post->ID,
'link' => $post->link,
'title' => $post->title(),
'date' => $post->post_date,
'summary' => $post->get_field('summary'),
'report_category' => $post->get_field('report_category'),
'document' => $post->get_field('document'),
'image' => $post->get_field('image'),
'url' => $post->get_field('url')
];
return $report;
}
add_shortcode('report_listing', 'report_get_listing');
The issue turned out to be a weird plugin conflict :( . I found that using a query monitor. The above example code in my question works fine.