Adding custom text in single post entry meta

[danielleB]

I'm creating a "press review" blog page to publish titles/summary from various articles on our services that appeared in news publications. My typical post entry meta includes the publication date and author (FPAdmin).

POST TITLE

PUBLISHED ON 2017-10-03 | FPAdmin
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Instead of FPAdmin, I'd like to include the name of the originating publication in the entry meta location next to the post-date, which means that each single post would output custom text in that area.

POST TITLE

PUBLISHED ON 2017-10-03 | New York Times
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Can anyone think of an easy way of doing this, if this is possible at all?

Many thanks,

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Danielle

http://www.fibrepontiac.ca

[danielleB]

I found this useful primer online, but it simply doesn't work for me. I'm using monochrome.pro. I tried the code in both the functions.php file and the single.php, but it returns an error.

I need to learn PHP.

🙁

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Danielle

[Brad Dalton]

Filter the default post info and add it in there or create your own custom shortcode

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[Brad Dalton]

Something like this should get you started https://gist.github.com/braddalton/9bb2f4d76c99e4b5faae54b32d3c5625

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[danielleB]

Thank you for this braddalton. I spent a lot of time trying it with the shortcode generator (great tool, by the way!) I'm learning a lot from the example you provided, but I can't quite get it to do what I need it to do.

Ideally, I'd like to add a shortcode at the beginning of the post: e.g., [publisher name="..."] that would return the appropriate credits in the entry meta. I would then use the Genesis 'quick edits' tool to add the shortcode to my posts. Using your example as a starting point, I tried to do this, but I can't get it to return variable content.

What am I missing?

Many thanks in advance for your help.

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Danielle

[Brad Dalton]

How are you adding the content?

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[danielleB]

I added it to the theme's functions.php file, near the end, before the:

//* Customize the post meta function
add_filter( 'genesis_post_meta', 'sp_post_meta_filter' );
function sp_post_meta_filter($post_meta) {
if ( !is_page() ) {
$post_meta = '[post_categories before=": "] [post_tags before=": "]';
return $post_meta;
}}

This is what the code looks like:

// Add Shortcode
function publisher_shortcode() {

return '<span class="custom-entry-meta" itemprop="name"> | MRC Pontiac</span>';

}
add_shortcode( 'publisher', 'publisher_shortcode' );

add_filter( 'genesis_post_info', 'sp_post_info_filter' );
function sp_post_info_filter($post_info) {
$post_info = '[post_date] by [post_author_posts_link] [post_comments] [post_edit] [publisher]';
return $post_info;
}

Then, in the body of the post, I added the shortcode as follows: [publisher name="MRC Pontiac"] (MRC Pontiac was the publisher in this case, but not in every case.) This code returns "MRC Pontiac" in the entry.meta as well as the body of the post. What I need it to do, is return a variable entry in the entry.meta location only.

This is what it looks like:

Single post

By the way, I tried replacing MRC Pontiac (publisher name) with an empty ' ' in the code, but that doesn't work.

Danielle

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Danielle

[Brad Dalton]

To add the variable content use a custom field like

genesis_get_custom_field('key');

To add the custom field value to the post info, create a custom shortcode or filter the post_info.

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[danielleB]

That worked! Thank you, Brad.

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Danielle

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