I have create a sidebar – it’s called SideBar X.

In Theme Panel, Categories, Per Category Settings, Category X, CUSTOM SIDEBAR + POSITION, I have selected SideBar X.

Sidebar X ONLY shows on the Category X Archive page. It does NOT show on every post in Category X.

I want Sidebar X on EVERY post in Category X.

Please don’t make me ask again – how do I get this to work?

This has nothing to do with any plugin. I have a sidebar I created and I want it to show on every post in a specific category. A regular post category. Not just the category archive. How?

Thanks for all the help. I wish the blocks were useful but they are so difficult to use. Too bad, it’s why I bought the NP theme. It’s still a nice theme, but without the blocks, not as much.

I still can’t fathom how they could design something so nice without a nice user interface. They could at least work with menus…that way I could pick and choose all my posts/categories via the menu interface and just have the blocks show what’s in the menus.

Oh well.

VC is the worst designed, least intuitive product I’ve ever used in the history of web development. And without support or updated documentation or videos I can’t see (they set them not go full screen) it’s impossible to use.

1) How do I filter for multiple post types and/or categories in 1 block? You finally explained how to pull 1 custom post, but I can’t filter for 1 CPT category, a Post and CPT category, or a selection of Posts and CPTs in one block

2) Reusable blocks – I totally don’t understand how to reuse them if I want to update them in one place only. So I create a block, set the filters. Then I want to use said block on multiple pages – but want to update it next month in ONE place only? You’d think TEMPLATES would do this. But you can’t edit a template?????? That’s insane. Is it possible to create “includes” or templates with the blocks that are editable – and centralized?

VC is fairly useless and they offer no current instructions on anything. It’s a shame Newspaper theme depends entirely on such a poor, tedious product. The blocks you’ve designed look great – but I can’t use them.

Sorry another VC question. Let’s say I create an element in VC. Like a Block 1 on two Columns…I add all my filters and get it just right, etc. Now I want to use that same block on another page. Do I save that section as a template?

Excellent. Finally. Thank you!! Now I can use the blocks.

Still pending answer to CPT question…on hold for 3 days now.

But for anyone who has the Post/Category ID issue – Reveal IDs plug is perfect. Allows you to copy/paste ID’s without having to hover over Edit URL’s and memorize and retype.

This makes no sense to me.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts

I just want a list of post and category IDs because of how Visual Composer works.

I’ve have looked at no less than 100 different pages on the web – here, WPBakery, Stack Overflow…and NO ONE, ANYWHERE provides instructions on how to filter for a CPT.

So if I add filter for “10001” – a regular post ID, it works
But if I add filter for “103075” – which is an Event ID, it does not. I’m sure it’s just a code thing where I’m supposed to specify gd_event=103075 or something like that…

domain.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=103075&action=edit
domain.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=gd_event#

Exactly how would I filter for THIS post? Which is a CPT. What is the EXACT code to enter into the Post ID field?

Please type it here so I can copy it. Thanks.

Thank you! Perfect. Had to add the EU cookie/privacy scripts.

I’m pretty sure you just repeated back to me what I said I did – that DIDN’T work. No caching.

So, please outline every single step to removing it manually. Every post, category, tag, image, and whatever else is installed with the travel guide demo.

Thanks for the response. What a shame – for a product that produces such beautiful design, the user interface (and amount of work) is just so poorly designed. I can’t imagine why they don’t just offer a drop down of being able to choose multiple categories or posts. And the process of looking up category and post IDs – hovering over a link and memorizing the number to retype it? Seems archaic.

So, two questions:
1) Is there any way to export a file of post names and IDs? At least I’d have something I can copy and paste.
2) How do we use CPTs? For example, I use GeoDirectory and have a lot of Events and Places I need to use in the blocks.

So if I add filter for “10001” – a regular post ID, it works
But if I add filter for “22222” – which is an Event ID, it does not. I’m sure it’s just a code thing where I’m supposed to specify gd_event=22222 or something like that…

Thank you!

Can you write out exactly what we are supposed to do here? I added this to my child functions.php but it still only shows 4 products:

// Woocommerce Number of product per page 8
add_filter(‘loop_shop_per_page’, create_function(‘$cols’, ‘return 20;’));

if (!function_exists(‘woocommerce_output_related_products’)) {
// Number of related products
function woocommerce_output_related_products() {
woocommerce_related_products(array(
‘posts_per_page’ => 4,
‘columns’ => 4,
‘orderby’ => ‘rand’,
)); // Display 4 products in rows of 1
}
}

Their demo content got sent out through my RSS feed – so I tweeted the demo posts, which have nothing to do with the topic of my site! The demo tags caused permalink conflicts that took me hours to figure out.

So far…this has turned into a major issue that shouldn’t have been. So an answer on how to delete ALL DEMO content would be great.

Chris:
Thank you very much. I’ve already made use of some of your very thoughtful and helpful posts on these forums.

Since I am copying over the exact functions and rss template from prior theme, where I know it works, then the reason it’s not working now is specific to this theme. Even if my new feed were not working on this theme, then wouldn’t this code remove the feed all together?

remove_action( ‘wp_head’,’feed_links’, 2 );
remove_action( ‘wp_head’,’feed_links_extra’, 3 );

I see you even posted that code (with additional lines – which I tried as well) to remove the feeds from the header. I’ll try it on the main theme functions file and see if that works…since you’ve said it may not work on NP child theme.

Thanks.

forgot to follow

Yes, I read your canned answer at least a dozen times on this forum. Clearly you have a lot of users with RSS questions and you think a plugin or that WP Beginner article can help. And for most people, that isn’t the case.

So I’m hoping someone can actually help me.

Transitioning to NP theme…and I know this doesn’t fall under typical support but I am really hoping someone out there can help me. I have a custom RSS feed in my current site I’m trying to copy over (working on a staging server – not sure if that makes a difference).

I have added a functions.php to my child theme and added this code:

// First remove all the RSS feed links from wp_head using remove_action

remove_action( ‘wp_head’,’feed_links’, 2 );

remove_action( ‘wp_head’,’feed_links_extra’, 3 );

// Then reinsert the main RSS feed by using add_action to call our function

add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘reinsert_rss_feed’, 1 );

// This function will reinsert the main RSS feed *after* the others have been removed

function reinsert_rss_feed() {

echo ‘<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”‘ . get_bloginfo(‘sitename’) . ‘ » RSS Feed” href=”‘ . get_bloginfo(‘rss2_url’) . ‘” />’;

}

//NEW RSS FEED function copied from previous developer

remove_all_actions( ‘do_feed_rss2’ );

add_action( ‘do_feed_rss2’, ‘acme_product_feed_rss2’, 10, 1 );

function acme_product_feed_rss2( $for_comments ) {

$rss_template = get_stylesheet_directory() . ‘/feed-rss2.php’;

if( file_exists( $rss_template ) )

load_template( $rss_template );

else

do_feed_rss2( $for_comments ); // Call default function

}

add_filter( ‘the_content_feed’, ‘my_rssfooter’ );

add_filter( ‘the_excerpt_rss’, ‘my_rssfooter’ );

//NEW RSS FEED function copied from previous developer

function my_feed_thumbnail($content) {

if (is_feed() && has_post_thumbnail()) {

return get_the_post_thumbnail( get_the_ID(), ‘thumbnail’ ) . $content;

}

return $content;

}

add_filter(‘the_content_feed’, ‘my_feed_thumbnail’);

add_filter(‘the_excerpt_rss’, ‘my_feed_thumbnail’);

//NEW RSS FEED function copied from previous developer

add_filter(‘excerpt_length’, ‘my_excerpt_length’);

function my_excerpt_length($length) {

if ( is_feed() ) {

return 1500;

} else return 0;

}

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then, also added a standard feed-rss2.php template to my child theme

But I still can’t get it to work. The feed on the new site is the standard RSS feed, but that’s not what I want. I need my custom RSS feed.

THANK YOU in advance to anyone who may be able to help.

I just made the font smaller for now. You can’t see the site without admin access and obviously I’m not posting those details on an open forum.

I’m not sure why you think sending me to the same links I posted and still had questions about is going to be helpful?

I said I had questions about this link:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/block-settings-tutorial/

And you posted this:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/wordpress-information/

Exactly the same. And then you told me to read the “documentation” which I clearly stated I did.

So you haven’t answered my questions at all.

1) Are there supposed to be blocks or grid templates with default theme?
2) Is there some basic documentation on what is a block, how it’s used, if either NP theme or VC already have templates, etc?

What is a block?

I’m an idiot – I forgot to activate the Child Theme in admin. Duh….sorry!

Same here. The theme installed fine but the error is with installing VC. The error is:
The package could not be installed. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature