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[Bastian A]

Hi there,

I’m trying to hide the date for each post in my portfolio section, but instead I want it to show the category I specified for that post.

My Idea: copy the php template file responsible for that to my child-theme and modify it. But I’m a bit confused which to take and where to edit, as there are ‘template_layout_portfolio.php’, ‘wp-single-x-portfolio.php’, ‘_portfolio.php’ and ‘content_portfolio.php’.

Thanks in advance!

[Rupok]

Hi there,

It seems you are referring the “Recent Posts” element with post type ‘portfolio’ not the portfolio item. Would you point us that with URL?

Cheers!

[Bastian A]

Oh, you are right!
That’s the recent-post element from cornerstone.
I used one of your demo contents and was mislead.

Here is the url:
http://www.schimmel.kruell-architekten.de/wordpress/

[Rupok]

Hi there,

In that case you need to modify the Cornerstone element using functions. Unfortunately it would be out of our support scope. But you can follow this thread – https://community.theme.co/forums/topic/add-excerpt-to-recent-posts-shortcode/#post-66964

That’s the code you need to modify if you want to achieve this. The example was to add excerpt and you need to add category, that’s the difference.

Cheers!

[Bastian A]

Thanks Rupok,

I understand that this is out of support-scope. But maybe you can clarify a bit.
The thread you provided suggests to modify the shortcodes’ functionality.
So can I just add an attribute like so:

function x_shortcode_recent_posts_v2code( $atts ) {
  extract( shortcode_atts( array(
    'id'          => '',
    'class'       => '',
    [...],
    'enable_category' => ''
  ), $atts ) );

set its values

$enable_category = ( $enable_excerpt == 'true'      ) ? true : false;

and include it in the $output ?

$output .= '<a href...>'
  [...] 
  .( $enable_category ? '<span class="x-recent-posts-category">' . strip_tags( get_the_category() ) . '</span>' : '' )
  . '</a>';

I hope I got this right. Please correct me if not.

[Rupok]

Hi there,

Let’s try that. Yes you need to add the category to the output. Let’s see if it throws any error or work.

Cheers!

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