In WordPress, terms are itens set to a taxonomy, i.e. when you create new categories or tags you create new terms.
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How to show a hierarchical terms list?
I have a hierarchical taxonomy called 'geographical locations'. It contains continents on a first level, and then the countries for each one. Example :
Europe
- Ireland
- Spain
- Sweden
Asia
- Laos
- ...
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Hierarchical taxonomy UI
I don't like the way the taxonomies are displayed within the Wordpress admin and was wondering if anyone knew the best way to hook in and change it. Currently if I select some terms within my post ...
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Inserting terms in an Hierarchical Taxonomy
I'm really having a few issues with inserting terms. Here is my scenario: I have a taxonomy called veda_release_type:
//Release Type and Region
$labels = array(
'name'=> ...
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Get terms by taxonomy AND post_type
I have 2 custom post types 'bookmarks' and 'snippets' and a shared taxonomy 'tag'. I can generate a list of all terms in the taxonomy with get_terms(), but I can't figure out how to limit the list to ...
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Is there a way to 'Lock' a Taxonomy?
I was wondering if there was a way to prevent the addition of new categories into a taxonomy, essentially 'locking' the taxonomy.
I'm programatically registering a taxonomy and filling it with terms ...
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How can I create a taxonomy meta-box with search suggestions but no new terms input?
I was wondering how I could setup a taxonomy metabox on a post edit page that would be similar to the "tags" kind (with search field and automatic suggestions), but without the right to add a new ...
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How to get a taxonomy term name by the slug?
If I know a taxonomy term slug, how can I get that term's name?
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Large taxonomy (2000+ terms), causing WordPress to hang
I have a large taxonomy (and about to grow a lot larger) with several thousand terms in it. When I'm editing a post, there is now a significant hang when it goes to load the term list.
Has anyone run ...
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Why does WordPress combine a term with the same name in the wp_terms table?
Add a term for a certain taxonomy with the name: Test
Add another term for a different taxonomy with the same name: Test
In the wp_terms table you find one record for both terms. In the ...
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How to sort terms with diacritical signs?
I have list of terms which happens to be the Polish Alphabet.
Here's how I list these terms:
<ul>
<?php
$terms = get_terms("taxonomy", array('orderby' => 'title', 'hide_empty' => ...
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Custom order of terms for custom taxonomy in admin and website
I have a custom taxonomy registered for my custom post type. I need to make it possible for a user to specify the order in which the taxonomy terms should appear (something like menu order for pages). ...
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List Hierarchical Term List with Count with Related Term
What I have are custom posts (of a custom post type, wps_business) that have two taxonomies (wps_location & wps_type), and I would like to list all the terms from type of a specific location.
For ...
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Determine if Term has Grandparent/Great-Grandparent
I have a custom taxonomy (hierarchical) for which I'm outputting the results. For example's purpose:
--Drinks
----Tequila
------Reposado
------Blanco
----Beer & Wine
------Beer
------Wine
...
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Exclude Child Terms From Parent Posts
How can I exclude the child term posts from showing up in the parent term posts output?? Right now it's duplicating in both parent and child term outputs.
//Function to display posts grouped by ...
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wp_get_object_terms() to get a list of all the terms attached to all the posts in the current query
How can I use wp_get_object_terms() to get a list of all the terms attached to all posts in the current query?
For example, for the current query I want to get an array of the terms from the "Alfa" ...
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What is 'term_group' for 'order_by' in get_terms()?
I was just reading the Codex regarding get_terms();. What exactly is the parameter 'term_group'?
You can use it in (example): 'order_by' for get_terms();.
Hint: I could be all terms that share the ...
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Taxonomy slug by term ID
I'm trying to modify wp_nav_menu to display term thumbnails. To get those thumbnails I need term ID and taxonomy slug: $thumbnailimg = get_the_term_thumbnail($term_id, '$taxonomy', 'medium');
I ...
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Copy a Taxonomy Term into the Post Title for a certain Custom Post Type
I am using Gravity Forms to allow users to create posts from the front end.
However, the way this site I am building is going to work, one specific Post_Type is essentially just a "Data" post. There ...
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Retrieving custom taxonomy in order, but excluding specific tax IDs
I have a function set up and working based off the discussion in this thread: Custom taxonomy, get_the_terms, listing in order of parent > child.
My version includes term links and allows me to ...
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Fast way to add countries as a custom taxonomy term?
Is there a quick way to add a list of countries as terms to a custom taxonomy called "Country"?
Is there an existing import file, SQL script ect...
I don't want to be there all day manually adding ...
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Formating the_terms() function output
This code:
<?php the_terms($post->ID, 'type') ?>
Gives:
<a href="/archives/type/image" rel="tag">Tag</a>
What do to if I want to display only "Tag" word, not link eg.
Tag
...
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Get terms that contain posts that in turn belong to other terms?
So I have custom taxonomy called "shape" and another one called "color". If I want to get the list terms under shape that contain posts that are also present in terms under color, how do I do that?
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Checking if a Page has an Associated Term?
I am looking for a way to do some conditional logic on terms associated with a post.
Essentially I created my own custom taxonomy for "age groups" and have created three terms for them. Kids, Teens, ...
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Get Posts by Custom Post Type ,Taxonomy, and Term
Ok, so i have a Custom Post Type called "Services". This custom post type has a taxonomy called "Areas" and there's 5 terms in that taxonomy.
Let's say I have 10 posts on "Services" and there's 5 ...
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get taxonomy name of current post
Hierarchical taxonomy of custom post type 'projects' > 'projects_category'.
Two example 'projects_category' hierarchies would be:
Big Corporates > 1st Company Name > A Post Title
Small ...
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How to get_term_children output in alphabetical order?
How do i get output of this in alphabetical order
<?php
$termID = 5;
$taxonomyName = 'area';
$termchildren = get_term_children( $termID, $taxonomyName );
echo '<ul>';
...
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deleting terms programmatically
I already checked out this page; http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_delete_term
It does not say what happens to the posts that may have been associated with this action. Hence my ...
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Edit post meta with checkboxes on front end
I'm trying to build an interface so that two custom fields for a custom post type can be edited on the front end with checkboxes. I'd like to display empty checkboxes if neither of those the fields ...
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How to only list the child terms of a taxonomy and not their parents?
I'm creating an age select menu in the admin, populated from a taxonomy of age. The taxonomy is hierarchical as follows:
18-25 (parent, ID 183)
18 (child)
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26-30 (parent, ID ...
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get term by id without taxonomy
Can I get the term by it's id without knowing to whish taxonomy it belongs?
I have a meta field that stores term ids, but doesn't store the taxonomy. However, all the get_term function have taxonomy ...
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post count is wrong when using same taxonomy for 2 different CPT
1 custom taxonomy registered for 2 different CPT (custom post type). When i entered to edit tag section on edit-tags.php?taxonomy=mytaxonomy&post_type=cpt1 it displays total post count of 2 ...
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wp_update_term: How could i update the “name”?
I was just looking at wp_update_term and haven't found any possibility to update the "name" of the term. My scenario is pretty simple: I got some predefined taxonomy terms in a config file like this ...
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Prevent Selected Terms Rising to the Top
When you're editing a post and select a child category or term, and update, the selected terms appear at the top ( leading to potentially confusing situations where 'foo' 'foo' and 'foo' are selected ...
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Limit tag cloud terms by date
I've been looking for a plugin that limits the tags dislayed in the tag cloud by date. Basically, I want all tags from a certain date forward. I've searched current plugins and haven't found anything ...
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Control term order on a per-post basis
I have a taxonomy in which term order matters, but varies from post to post. So I want to be able to set the order that terms are displayed in on a per-post basis:
My first post | Tagged: Apples, ...
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orphaned taxonomy terms remove by sql query
I have 3 custom post types each of these CPT's have posts that are set to auto delete via a given time scale by cron jobs, thing is when they are deleted it leaves behind orphaned taxonomy terms in ...
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How to hook get_terms() to only show count of posts that have custom meta
Here is what I have:
A custom post type that has a custom meta value added to a post that stores the posts expiry date. When the post passes this expiry date it no longer shows on the site.
This ...
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How to get the first term for the current taxonomy?
I'm using the following code to display the term for a specified taxonomy:
$terms = get_terms( "book_review" );
$category = $terms[0]->name;
However I want to display the term for whatever the ...
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Category page only displaying the posts from a custom type
Situation
I have two cpt:
Projects
Works
In these two CPT I share the same taxonomy 'Category', and the same terms:
Architecture
Landscape
Interior Design
I have URLs like
...
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Glossary with Custom Post Type
I´d like to make a glossary. It should looks like:
Index-Nav
0-9 | A B C ... M ... X Y Z
B
BMW
M
Mercedes
...
ALL entries from index-nav (A-Z, O-9) should be visible in a <ul> and should ...
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Importing data from spreadsheet into wordpress DB, along with custom taxonomies and their terms
I am importing a large DB from an Excel spreadsheet into a wordpress DB. I was going to do it manually by creating a new table but decided to import it into the existing wordpress framework as it will ...
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Generic taxonomy-term template page
because of my taxonomy hierarchy, my taxonomy-type.php template is already used, is there a way to have only one taxonomy-type-term.php template ?
I've got 13 sub terms, do I need to create 13 ...
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Why does WP rename similar “term name”-slugs in separate taxonomies?
I have several custom taxonomies and within two of those ( Company Categories and Photographer Categories ) I have a term that is similar. The Company Category called Boudoir and the Photographer ...
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wp_set_object_terms() Fails to Set Terms
Okay guys, here's the scenario.
I'm am trying to setup a function that will automatically duplicate a post (when published) over to another post type. So, a regular blog post is published, and when ...
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Dropdown: Display terms from B only if has relationship with a term A selected
I've googling for a solution for this issue and found nothing: I have some posts from a Custom Post Type (Restaurants) and its taxonomies ('city' and 'cuisine'). Whenever I create a restaurant post, I ...
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How can I get WP to build a feed based on multiple taxonomy terms
Currently, the best way to get a feed generated for a single taxonomy term is by letting wordpress generate the content automatically:
example.com/wordpress/feed?tax_slug=term_slug
However, is ...
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How can I get only parent terms?
Is there any way to get only parent terms from custom taxonomy or category?
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How can I remove links from the function “get term list”?
<?php echo get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'people', 'People: ', ' ', '' ); ?>
returns something like this:
People: <a href="person1">Person1</a>, <a ...
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How to get current term in my custom taxonomy in WordPress?
I need to display the current term in my custom taxonomy in a single post.
example:
My custom taxonomy is products and term of them is product-1, product-2 and products-3.
My post is assigned to ...
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get_terms with more than x post count
Is there an argument for get_terms which I can fetch terms that only have say over 2 posts associated with it?
I have a terms page which lists all my terms for 'artists', the page is huge but a lot of ...
