Group Profiles and Post Meta Examples

[nicholaspetersen]

Hello! Looking for some direction more than raising an issue. I've been able to successfully loop through groups and map a couple basic meta info like images and group title, but I'm wondering if you have any examples of how to pull out the more complicated meta info for a group (day, time, childcare, location, etc) and the custom taxonomies associated with groups.

Also, I'm curious if anyone has a working example of using ccb-core to pull in a list of groups on a church website, groups finder, or something like that.

Thanks!

[jaredcobb]

Hi @nicholaspetersen!

I've been meaning to write up some additional examples in the wiki. For the fields you listed (day, time, childcare, etc) those are synchronized as custom taxonomies by default. So are you seeing those like so?

And is there data being populated (terms) when you check those? If so, you should be able to use get_the_terms() see https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_terms/

For example, within your loop, if you want to output the days you would do something like:

$days = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'ccb_core_group_day' );
if ( ! empty( $days ) && ! is_wp_error( $days ) ) {
    foreach ( $days as $day ) {
        echo esc_html( $day->name );
    }
}

Or maybe even use get_the_term_list() https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_term_list if you want WordPress to build all the HTML markup for you.

You can find a complete list of the default custom taxonomies that the plugin provides out of the box here https://www.wpccb.com/documentation/#groups-schema

As for using CCB Core to synchronize groups into an existing plugin's custom post types, yes, that's certainly possible. Here is a recently closed issue with some code samples (see my second example at the end of the thread) https://github.com/jaredcobb/ccb-core/issues/12

[nicholaspetersen]

Thank you! I think I misunderstood the docs (my fault, not yours) when I was looking for meta info instead of taxonomies. I also figured out how to output the meta info for the leader. Am I correct in understanding that the main_leader is the only one available through the api? Is there a way to pull in the assistant leaders as well?

Regarding my last question, I was actually just wondering if you knew of anyone using ccb-core in a working live environment. I'm working on my own, but would love to see anyone else who's done something with it.