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November 23, 2020 at 5:16 PM #22992
logicelf
ParticipantHi folks,
I'd like to display related posts registered with
MB_Relationships_API::register()in a table created with Posts Table Pro.Posts Table Pro can display a column with any custom field, including the ACF relationship field. This is perfect for my needs, but I'd like to use MB instead of ACF (I have a lifetime MB bundle, and I prefer it to ACF).
The issue is that the relationships are stored by MB in a custom table, not in a custom field, which means that Posts Table Pro (and any other solution which looks at custom fields) can't directly access the list of related posts for a given post.
I'm thinking that the easiest way to solve this would be to register a custom field which keeps (and updates) an array of the related post IDs from the
wp_mb_relationshipstable for the post in question, and looks up the post title and URL for each, so that they can be passed to Posts Table Pro.Can someone tell me if I'm on the right track here? I'd be very grateful for any suggestions, because I'm not that experienced with this stuff and I'm still learning to use MB to its full potential.
Thaks very much,
James
November 23, 2020 at 9:47 PM #22997Long Nguyen
ModeratorHi there,
Meta Box supports the field
postwhich similar to the Relationships extension. The difference is it saves the post ID in the database as the post meta like other fields. Please try to use it with the plugin Posts Table Pro.See more in this documentation https://docs.metabox.io/fields/post/.
November 24, 2020 at 4:13 PM #23039ParticipantThanks, Long - I hadn't seen
post. I'll have a play with that instead.November 25, 2020 at 10:37 PM #23065ParticipantHi Long,
The
postfield works, but (as far as I can see) there's no way to make the associated post ID relationships reciprocal (as can be done with MB Relationships).Is this correct? If so, I'll have to build a query to gather the related posts, then pass the parsed titles and slugs to Posts Table Pro to render.
November 26, 2020 at 9:07 AM #23069ModeratorHi,
Yes, the field
postjust supports selecting post (post types) and save the post ID as the post meta so it does not have the feature reciprocal like the Relationships extension.November 26, 2020 at 5:31 PM #23075ParticipantOkay, thanks.
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