Alternate ways to display additional fields (from the add-on)

[Aleksandr Klyashitsky]

I am looking to display the field ‘year visited’ and ‘cottage’ in the header sentence, the one that says ‘Alex from CITY wrote on August 22, 2021 at 7:17 pm’ I would like instead to change it to ‘Alex from CITY stayed in COTTAGE during YEAR wrote’

Can this be achieved? If not, what options do I have with regards to display of alternate fields? Displaying them at the top of the entry or at the bottom, or in the metabox is very limiting.

[Marcel Pol]

Hi Aleksandr,
No problem about asking this. The 3 options for display are the most common ways for displaying. It can be changed and customized, but often that needs custom code for that specific desire/need.

What I did is disable the date fields and also the City/Origin field in the read-settings.
Then this next code can go to a custom plugin, or can be added to the functions.php of your theme.
You might want to check if the slugs of both fields are correct.

function gwolle_gb_author_name_html_add_meta_from_addon( $html, $entry ) {

	if ( ! function_exists( 'gwolle_gb_addon_get_meta_for_preview' ) ) {
		return $html;
	}

	$origin = $entry->get_author_origin();
	if ( strlen(str_replace(' ', '', $origin)) > 0 ) {
		$html .= '
				<span class="gb-author-origin">
					<span class="gb-author-origin-from-text"> ' . /* translators: city or origin */ esc_html__('from', 'gwolle-gb') . '</span>
					<span class="gb-author-origin-text"> ' . gwolle_gb_sanitize_output($origin) . '</span>
				</span>';
	}

	$cottage = gwolle_gb_addon_get_meta_for_preview( $entry->get_id(), 'cottage' );
	if ( ! $cottage ) {
		$cottage = gwolle_gb_addon_get_meta( $entry->get_id(), 'cottage' );
	}
	$year = gwolle_gb_addon_get_meta_for_preview( $entry->get_id(), 'year-visited' );
	if ( ! $year ) {
		$year = gwolle_gb_addon_get_meta( $entry->get_id(), 'year-visited' );
	}

	if ( strlen($cottage) > 0 ) {
		$html .= '<span class="gb-author-cottage-text"> stayed in ' . $cottage . '</span>';
	}
	if ( strlen($year) > 0 ) {
		$html .= '<span class="gb-author-cottage-text"> during ' . $year . ' wrote</span>';
	}

	var_dump($html);

	return $html;

}
add_filter( 'gwolle_gb_author_name_html', 'gwolle_gb_author_name_html_add_meta_from_addon', 10, 2 );

Does it work for you?

[Aleksandr Klyashitsky]

Hi Marcel, thanks a lot for your help. The function works well. All I needed to do was disable the city and datetime display before enabling the function, as well as delete the var_dump($html). Thanks again!

[Marcel Pol]

Ouch, yes, I forgot the var_dump( $html ), sorry about that :)

Good that it works for you.

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