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Posted by John Weland
John Weland
42,478 Points

How to Build a WordPress Theme, featured project

So in the "How to Build a WordPress Theme" on the home page there is a slider to show featured work, it however simply displays all work (one at a time.. or one per slide).

In this tutorial we added a custom field of "display_on_the_homepage", but we never used it. No matter if this check-box is ticked or not projects still show up in the slider. As do their images.

I've looked at the arguments array and I some how need to implement 'the_field('display_on_the_homepage')' => true, or something of the likes but I can't get it to work.

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/how-to-build-a-wordpress-theme/extending-wordpress-template-functionality/finishing-the-homepage-template-2

2 Answers

Riley Hilliard
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Riley Hilliard
Courses Plus Student 17,771 Points
Riley Hilliard
Riley Hilliard
Courses Plus Student 17,771 Points

Not too sure of the context, but in order to have a feature like this work, your display code will need to read the filter as well. You need some kind of conditional that is something along the lines of: 

<?php 
    if($item->display_on_the_homepage == true){
        add_item_to_show_array($item);
    }
?>

That's the logic I would use to create a conditional that filters what is added to the slider, but again, I am not entirely sure if this fits the exact context that you are inquiring about?

(This conditional could also be placed in the actual loop code)

<?php 
   foreach($something as $something_else){
        if($something_else->display_on_the_homepage == true){
           // Show image on slider
        } else {
            // display_on_the_homepage was false, handle a false value here.
        }
   }
?>
John Weland
John Weland
42,478 Points
John Weland
John Weland
42,478 Points

thanks I'll be looking to that mate, bout to shoot you an email with a link btw.