The problem There’s on (imho) serious issue with WordPress and Taxonomies and their term hierarchy (and children): They aren’t really fetched from the actual state, but someone who thought (s)he might be really “smart” stuffed that into the *_options table. Just take a look at the source of get_term_children(): It makes a call to _get_term_hierarchy(). … Read more
If you know you’re loading the right template, redirect to your first term of the specified taxonomy: function wpse_135306_redirect() { $cpt=”countries”; if (is_post_type_archive($cpt)) { $tax = ‘cities’; $args = array( ‘orderby’ => ‘id’, // or ‘name’ or whatever ); $cities = get_terms($tax, $args); if (count($cities)) { wp_redirect(get_term_link(reset($cities), $tax)); exit(); } } } // function wpse_135306_redirect … Read more
Ok, I think I’ve figured out a viable solution. Kinda disappointed that there’s no way I’ve found thus far to hook directly into trash_{custom_post_type} like I was able to on the publish_{custom_post_type} hook. Here’s a solution for anyone else struggling with this issue. If anyone has any better suggestions, please feel free to share! /** … Read more
AFAIK it shouldn’t be a problem to get taxonomy data at the customizer_register hook state. So that problem might have different reasons, but they aren’t apparent from your question. Besides I’m not sure what you are trying to achieve, so you might want to fill the information gaps according to @Rarst’s questions. Aside from that … Read more
This can be easily done with your own custom function. What you want to do here is, get your object from get_terms() which will hold your term objects, check if your unique key is set as a parameter and then according to that, remove that key/pair and add it to the back Now, lets put … Read more
I think you have misinterpreted custom post-types and custom taxonomies, somewhat. Theory Custom Post Types I consider the purpose of a custom post-type to be format of data distinct in it’s own right – it describes a type of content, but not the content itself. Take the in-built page, post, and attachment post-types, for example: … Read more
Maybe you just need to add: ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, //or ASC depending on which order you want them to be. The title of your question sounds like you are trying to order taxonomy terms by their creation date which is not possible, but you can work around it by using the ID. For example: $terms … Read more
To select posts that have a meta value, use the EXISTS comparison operator. $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘jobs’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 12, ‘paged’=> $paged, ‘tax_query’ => array( array( ‘taxonomy’ => ‘job_category’, ‘field’ => ‘slug’, ‘terms’ => $term->slug, ) ), ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘_shop’, ‘compare’ => ‘EXISTS’ ) ) );
To answer your first question What is the difference between those functions get_terms() returns an array of terms objects that belongs to a specific taxonomy get_the_terms() returns an array of terms belonging to a post the_terms() displays an HTML formatting string of term names belonging to a post Because you need your terms not hyperlinked … Read more
WP defaults to showing normal native Posts in archives. It won’t automagically pick up which post types you want in your archive. You will have to adjust main query for it to explain that to it, with something like: add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, function ( WP_Query $query ) { if ( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_tax( ‘department’ ) ) … Read more