Portfolio Metadata Modification

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#1

Good day Themeco Team,

I want to change the single portfolio metadata. I have two issues I could use your guidance with:

  1. Change the portfolio date to year only -
    I could change this in >Settings>General, but that would also change the blog posts as well, which I don’t want. I have been able to change the entry page date using a child theme and updating the content-portfolio.php file, and that works well using the line:
    <?php echo get_the_date( 'Y' ); ?>. But in the same file, under the is_singular() if statement it uses the more global x_renew_entry_meta() function but I am not sure where to modify this function.

  2. Portfolio single item category links -
    This is likely related to the above, but I want to disable the links for the categories in the single entry page of the portfolio. For this one, I want to disable the category links for both the blog and portfolio.

Maybe there is some CSS that can do all this, since I see the class ‘p-meta’ when I inspect. However, I read elsewhere that modifying this class with CSS also changes the blog posts. I want the blog posts to stay with the full date format of WP, but only change the portfolio date, and disable category links for both.

#2

Hey @GregoryArndt,

We do not provide custom coding support.

I see you’re using Pro so you can have a custom single portfolio template using the Layout Builder. Check out the tutorial here: https://youtu.be/Vkwk9YCexL4

For instance, you can use the Meta Line element as it contains the publishing date Dynamic Content. You can add the format attribute to it to display Year only.

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For the category links, you can set up a Div with Current Post Term Looper Provider and within it, a Text element containing the Term Name Dynamic Content.

I know this requires more work than custom coding, but when you know how to use the tools available in Pro, you can build almost everything. And, custom coding requires development work. We do not provide that.

If you still need custom development guidance, please subscribe to our One Single Platform support. If you want us to do the work, subscribe to our One Total Care support.

#3

Hi @christian,

Thank you for the reply and your guidance is helpful. I appreciate the flexibility and power of creating your own templates with the layout builder, and I have used dynamic content creating my own components. Since I’m not a professional web developer, this seems to be a lot more work than I really need for a single site. Not to mention that the video you provided is a couple years old and a bit dated. For example, many of the >Admin>Pro options no longer exist:
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Don’t get me wrong, following the video I could take the time to create a new layout from scratch (as all the available templates do not come close to the renew stack), but I really like the renew stack template and have spent a lot of time styling it the way I want. I will have to weigh the amount of work versus the requirement of the outcome.

Interestingly, I did find this post in the archives which shows how to create a custom x_renew_entry_meta() function. Pretty much exactly what I needed. What I don’t know yet is how this will affect the blog post versus the portfolio post.

If that doesn’t work, perhaps I’ll try to figure out a custom jquery return like I did for the mouseovers: $(".x-iso-container-posts .entry-wrap a").attr( “title”,“Click to Read More” );, or maybe a filter applied in the functions.php file. Maybe I can, maybe I can’t, but I’ve seen others trying to do the same thing in other forums. Update: Not needed. See below update.

I did however find a simpler way to disable all the links on both the categories and the tags by using the custom CSS: .p-meta { pointer-events: none; } (for categories) and .x-li-icon { pointer-events: none; } (for tags). This seems like a shotgun approach and while it achieves the outcome I wanted, I’m not sure I like it. If the above custom meta function works, I can just not have links on the categories. Update: Not needed. See below update.

I know this is beyond the support you are able to provide here but I appreciate your guidance.

Update: I managed to find the renew stack functions php and copy the x_renew_entry_meta function into the child functions.php file (the one in the linked post above was really old). I was then able to modify as needed and it works great. For others looking for the base functions file, use Admin>Appearance>Theme File Editor, select the Pro theme, and navigate to /framework/legacy/functions/frontend/ and select the name of the stack you want. And ALWAYS use a Child Theme for any modifications so Pro updates don’t overwrite your changes.