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Creating a custom video post type:
- Add the code to functions.php file & show in the video and category fields.
function custom_post_type_video() {
$labels = array(
'name' => _x( 'Videos', 'Post Type General Name', 'text_domain' ),
'singular_name' => _x( 'Video', 'Post Type Singular Name', 'text_domain' ),
'menu_name' => __( 'Videos', 'text_domain' ),
'name_admin_bar' => __( 'Video', 'text_domain' ),
'archives' => __( 'Video Archives', 'text_domain' ),
'attributes' => __( 'Video Attributes', 'text_domain' ),
'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Video:', 'text_domain' ),
'all_items' => __( 'All Videos', 'text_domain' ),
'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Video', 'text_domain' ),
'add_new' => __( 'Add New', 'text_domain' ),
'new_item' => __( 'New Video', 'text_domain' ),
'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Video', 'text_domain' ),
'update_item' => __( 'Update Video', 'text_domain' ),
'view_item' => __( 'View Video', 'text_domain' ),
'view_items' => __( 'View Videos', 'text_domain' ),
'search_items' => __( 'Search Video', 'text_domain' ),
'not_found' => __( 'Not found', 'text_domain' ),
'not_found_in_trash' => __( 'Not found in Trash', 'text_domain' ),
'featured_image' => __( 'Featured Image', 'text_domain' ),
'set_featured_image' => __( 'Set featured image', 'text_domain' ),
'remove_featured_image' => __( 'Remove featured image', 'text_domain' ),
'use_featured_image' => __( 'Use as featured image', 'text_domain' ),
'insert_into_item' => __( 'Insert into video', 'text_domain' ),
'uploaded_to_this_item' => __( 'Uploaded to this video', 'text_domain' ),
'items_list' => __( 'Videos list', 'text_domain' ),
'items_list_navigation' => __( 'Videos list navigation', 'text_domain' ),
'filter_items_list' => __( 'Filter videos list', 'text_domain' ),
);
$args = array(
'label' => __( 'Video', 'text_domain' ),
'description' => __( 'Post Type Description', 'text_domain' ),
'labels' => $labels,
'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'thumbnail','excerpt' ),
'menu_icon' =>'dashicons-format-video',
'hierarchical' => true,
'public' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'show_in_menu' => true,
'menu_position' => 5,
'show_in_admin_bar' => true,
'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
'can_export' => true,
'has_archive' => true,
'exclude_from_search' => false,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'show_in_rest' => true,
);
register_post_type( 'videos', $args );
register_taxonomy(
'videos_category',
'videos',
array(
'label' => __( 'Categories' ),
'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'videos_category' ),
'hierarchical' => true,
'taxonomies' => array('videos_category'),
'show_in_rest' => true,
)
);
}
add_action( 'init', 'custom_post_type_video', 0 );
2.Add this code in the function.php file and get the video API.
url:- https://wp-demo-news.apps.peanutsquare.com/wp-json/custom/v1/videos?_embed
(A).get the video url.
function add_video_url_to_rest_response() {
register_rest_field(
'videos',
'video_url',
array(
'get_callback' => 'get_video_url',
'schema' => null,
)
);
}
add_action('rest_api_init', 'add_video_url_to_rest_response');
function get_video_url($object, $field_name, $request) {
return get_post_meta($object['id'], 'short_video', true);
}
(B).add this code in access the video URL
add_action('rest_api_init', function () {
register_rest_route('acf/v1', '/video/(?P<id>\d+)', array(
'methods' => 'GET',
'callback' => 'get_acf_video_link',
));
});
function get_acf_video_link($data) {
$post_id = $data['id'];
$video_link = get_field('short_video', $post_id);
if (empty($video_link)) {
return new WP_Error('no_video', 'Invalid post ID or no video link found', array('status' => 404));
}
return rest_ensure_response($video_link);
}
3.Add this code in functions.php file view the breaking-news Categories id.
url:- https://wp-demo-news.apps.peanutsquare.com/wp-json/custom/v1/breaking-news?_embed
function register_breaking_news_endpoint() {
register_rest_route('custom/v1', '/breaking-news/', array(
'methods' => 'GET',
'callback' => 'get_breaking_news_posts',
));
}
add_action('rest_api_init', 'register_breaking_news_endpoint');
function get_breaking_news_posts($request) {
$args = array(
'category_name' => 'breaking-news',
'post_type' => 'post',
'posts_per_page' => -1,
);
$query = new WP_Query($args);
$posts = [];
if ($query->have_posts()) {
while ($query->have_posts()) {
$query->the_post();
$categories = get_the_category();
$category_names = array();
foreach ($categories as $category) {
$category_names[] = $category->name;
}
$posts[] = array(
'id' => get_the_ID(),
'title' => get_the_title(),
'slug' => get_post_field('post_name', get_the_ID()),
'content' => get_the_content(),
'excerpt' => get_the_excerpt(),
'date' => get_the_date(),
'link' => get_permalink(),
'image' => get_the_post_thumbnail_url(get_the_ID(), 'full'),
'categories' => $category_names,
);
}
wp_reset_postdata();
}
if (empty($posts)) {
return new WP_Error('no_posts', 'No breaking news found', array('status' => 404));
}
return rest_ensure_response($posts);
}
function custom_videos_endpoint( $data ) {
$videos = get_posts( array(
'post_type' => 'videos',
'posts_per_page' => -1,
) );
$formatted_videos = array();
foreach ( $videos as $video ) {
$video_categories = wp_get_post_terms( $video->ID, 'videos_category', array( 'fields' => 'names' ) );
$video_link = get_field( 'short_video', $video->ID );
$video_data = array(
'id' => $video->ID,
'title' => $video->post_title,
'image' => get_the_post_thumbnail_url( $video->ID, 'full' ),
'category' => $video_categories,
'video' => $video_link,
);
$formatted_videos[] = $video_data;
}
return $formatted_videos;
}
// Register custom REST API endpoint for videos
function register_custom_videos_endpoint() {
register_rest_route( 'custom/v1', '/videos', array(
'methods' => 'GET',
'callback' => 'custom_videos_endpoint',
) );
}
add_action( 'rest_api_init', 'register_custom_videos_endpoint' );
4.Add Breaking News Api key
- Add this code in functions.php file to creating a custom API.
- API:- /wp-json/custom/v1/breaking-news
function register_custom_videos_endpoint() {
register_rest_route( 'custom/v1', '/videos', array(
'methods' => 'GET',
'callback' => 'custom_videos_endpoint',
));
}
add_action( 'rest_api_init', 'register_custom_videos_endpoint' );
Notes :- Add this all code in the functions.php file.