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On the Blogpost I have categories showing, is there a way to exclude a catgegory like ‘Media’?

Add this simple check to your foreach loop: <?php $categories = get_the_category(); foreach($categories as $cat): if ( $cat->name == ‘Media’ ) continue; ?> <a href=”<?php echo get_category_link($cat->term_id); ?>”> <?php echo $cat->name; ?> </a> <?php endforeach; ?> You can check the category name against the list of categories: <?php $categories = get_the_category(); foreach($categories as $cat): if … Read more

How to display a value inside a post with a specified category from a category custom field? [closed]

You can use get_the_category() to get the categories assigned to a specific post and use the_field() or get_field() to display/get the value of a specific ACF field. (You can also use get_term_meta() in place of get_field()) So for example, the following will display a simple list of the categories (and I really mean plain simple), … Read more

WP REST API not retrieving all categories

As documented, the default number if results returned “per page” is 10. So you need to set per_page to however many you want to retrieve: https://example.com/wp-json/wp/v2/categories?per_page=30

How to Link to Most Recent Custom Post of Same Term

I ended up using wp_query instead because I couldn’t make wp_get_recent_posts work no matter what I tried. For anyone who needs this functionality in the future, here’s the code I used: // Get the ID of the current posts’s term $terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID, ‘comic-series’ ); // Only get the parent term and ignore child … Read more

Some of the category description not showing up in category page

You can use pre-defined function to get a category description. category_description(); Visit for more information to Retrieve category description.

Having a template per category? Bad for server overhead?

I say “bad practice” because perhaps I am just adding a ton of overhead that WordPress has to loop through templates – or is it not a huge problem? Would the overhead be nominal? No, there won’t be an extra performance cost because that’s not how the template loading works. WP always runs through the … Read more

Category images are not displaying in WordPress

In your code, you store the images in the wp_options table with the key category_images, but there is nothing that tells WordPress that it must fetch the image when loading the taxonomy term (your category). What you can do is either use get_option(‘category_images’) whenever you need to fetch the image, or add a hook filter … Read more

Do not show sub categories in the loop on archive-product.php

The answer lies in the Customiser. This setting used to exist in the WooCommerce settings but they moved it into the Customiser at some point.

How to list all categories and their IDs using SQL query?

I finally got the solution. Below SQL Query gets the list of all categories with it’s ID from WordPress table – SELECT wp_term_taxonomy.term_id, wp_terms.name FROM wp_term_relationships LEFT JOIN wp_term_taxonomy ON (wp_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id = wp_term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id) LEFT JOIN wp_terms ON (wp_terms.term_id = wp_term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id) WHERE wp_term_taxonomy.taxonomy = ‘category’ GROUP BY wp_term_taxonomy.term_id order by wp_terms.name Hope this could help others.

WordPress list categories dropdown with parent-child relation and child under it’s parent

My question here is, which of the arguments are responsible for the correct ordering of the children under the parent taxonomy category? None — the orderby arg only sorts the categories and not grouping them (placing them under their own parent), so you would need to manually do the grouping. And setting orderby to parent … Read more

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