Precision Customizing Post Meta in Genesis?

[boldplan]

I have a love - hate relationship with Genesis, lol. On the bright side I enjoy the speed, simplicity and great themes. On the less dark side I find doing simple things very difficult, such as trying to add extra taxonomy-based meta fields. Standard WP templates are straightforward. Let's take an example for a collection of reference papers. In addition to Post meta (date, category, etc.) need to create a taxonomy for state. Another taxonomy I need is date of original publication. I also need to put in a field that tags the language. Sounds easy - just use a taxonomy plugin and create a taxonomy for each (still working on that date field 🙂 ). But all I want in the post is a few changes, really easy in a typical WP template:

1) Add an extra field that appears on a line above the date and category with the language.
2) Add an extra field that appears on a line below the date and that has the state, date of publication and category -- moving the category field on a separate line for the date.

- language
- date of publication
- category, state, date of original publication

Is there any documentation on how to manipulate layout, custom fields, placement, etc? How about styling elements like inserting different color rows for each of the three lines?

http://post meta, output, styles

[Ginger]

I would first review the WordPress codex page on custom fields:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields

Then, check out this post by Nick (one of the developers for Genesis) on how to work with custom fields in Genesis:

How I Make Custom Fields Easier in Genesis

Once they are showing up where you want them, then styling them will be the last thing you would tackle. You can right+click and select Inspect Element in your browser and go from there.

Hope this helps!

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[Brad Dalton]

There's 2 parts

1. The input
2. The output

You can use the native custom fields meta boxes for input.
For output, you can use existing code from Genesis > lib > shortcodes > post.php as a guide.

And the genesis_post_info filter for modifying existing entry meta.

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