[wp-hackers] Custom Post Type

[Otto]

What's your filter look like?  Did you return $where ? If you messed
up the return line, then you'd get all the posts and pages and
everything back even if the replacement works correctly.

Also, for a simple text replace without regex, you should use
str_replace. Faster.


On Jan 27, 2008 4:45 PM, Dan Larkin <nitephire at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, that fixes one problem but creates another.  I created a simple test
> plug-in to run the following code in a function applied by the posts_where
> hook:
>
> if ( !is_admin() ) $where = eregi_replace ("post_type = 'page'", "(
> post_type = 'page' OR post_type = 'group' )", $where);
>
> This does make it so that WP will display.  However, I think basically it
> eliminates distinctions.  Under both 'Manage Pages' and 'Manage Posts' all
> records of the posts table are returned.  Any idea why that would happen?
>
> On 1/27/08, Austin Matzko <if.website at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
>
> > On Jan 27, 2008 4:51 PM, Dan Larkin <nitephire at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I do not want these special pages to show up under Manage Pages or
> > Manage
> > Posts.  I do want them to show up when one navigates to the pages'
> > permalinks.
> > [snip]
> > > Again, correct me if I'm wrong, but it
> > > seems like using set_query_var() will return only those posts which are
> > of
> > > the special value when used in a separate query.  This isn't what I want
> > to
> > > do at all.  I want the main query that handles usual post and page
> > display
> > > to simply get a little extra code functionality to display posts with
> > other
> > > 'post_type' values.
> >
> > So you want posts of both post_type "post" and post_type "group" to be
> > included together? Then I would use the 'posts_where' filter to call
> > back a function where a regular expression replaces post_type = 'post'
> > with (post_type = 'post' OR post_type = 'group').
> >
> > To keep the admin area from being affected, just test with
> > "is_admin()" before applying the filter.
> > _______________________________________________
> > wp-hackers mailing list
> > wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers
> >
> _______________________________________________
> wp-hackers mailing list
> wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers
>