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I am trying to sort through a multi level hierarchy in a custom taxonomy.

I have custom taxonomy's with multiple sub taxonomy's. Eg:

Level1
-Level2
--Level3 

ect

At the moment I can use get_term_children() to return the children for a top level taxonomy but this doesn't tell me anything about there position in the hierarchy.

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You'll probably have to run a cycle using get_terms() paired with the 'parent' attribute.

$args = array( 'parent' => 0 );
$parents = get_terms( array( 'custom-tax' ), $args );
foreach ( $parents as $parent ) {
    echo $parent->name;
    $args['parent'] = $parent->term_id;
    if ( $children = get_terms( array( 'custom-tax' ), $args ) ) {
        foreach ( $children as $child ) {
            echo $child->name;
        }
    }
}

You may be able to rewrite the "if ( $children..." into a while loop if you need more recursion than that.

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  • That code only works for 2 levels, though I understand though how you could convert it across to multiple. I was really looking to see if wordpress stored any data on the hierarchy. Jan 30, 2014 at 17:19
  • It does, but I believe it does it through the 'parent' attribute, not a numerical representation of what level the term lives at.
    – socki03
    Jan 30, 2014 at 17:23
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You can recursively create a hierarchical structure using this function:

function sort_hierarchical(array &$cats, array &$into, $parent_id = 0){

    foreach ($cats as $i => $cat) {
        if ($cat->parent == $parent_id) {
            $into[$cat->term_id] = $cat;
            unset($cats[$i]);
        }
    }

    foreach ($into as $top_cat) {
        $top_cat->children = array();
        sort_hierarchical($cats, $top_cat->children, $top_cat->term_id);
    }
}

And use it like this:

$terms = get_terms(array('taxonomy' => 'category', 'hide_empty' => false));
$cats = array();
sort_hierarchical($terms,$cats) ;

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